2844 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Richard C. McGregor, in 1897. From the latter the above account was 



taken. The species differs from Lepidopus candatus in the much shorter 



dorsal and longer anal. D. 103; A. 24. (Named for John Xautus do 



Vesey.) 



Lepidopus caudatu*, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 358; not of EUPHRASEN. 



Lepidopus xantusi, GOODE & BEAN, Ocean. Ichth., 519, 1896; same type; no descwption. 



Page 889. Trichiurus lepturus is recorded by Storer from Buzzards Bay 

 (1840) and Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1845), and H. M. Smith records it 

 from Woods Hole (1897). 



Page 892. The synonymy at top of page under Tetrapturus imperator 

 belongs to the footnote on same page. 



Page 899. Add: 



1286(a). OLIdOPLITES MUNDUS, Jordan & Starks, new species. 



Head 4; depth 2; eye 4. D. V-I, 19; A. II-I, 20. Body deep and 

 compressed. Length of head about ^ greater than its depth at nape ; eye 

 equal to snout and to interorbital ; maxillary extending considerably 

 beyond vertical from hinder margin of eye, its length If in head; second 

 suborbital not over ^ as wide as lowest, and much shorter, thus form- 

 ing a prominent notch in posterior margin of suborbital bones; a slight 

 eniargination in opercle in front of pectoral. Teeth small, sharp, in a 

 band in each jaw, narrow in upper. Origin of soft dorsal midway 

 between snout and base of caudal, the anal opposite; the anterior rays 

 of both somewhat produced; second soft ray of each equal to head behind 

 pupil, and equal to pectoral; ventrals equal to f of pectorals, their inner 

 margins fastened to body; caudal deeply forked, the middle rays 3^ in 

 longest, which are longer than head. Lateral line nearly straight, but 

 forming a broad angle above pectoral. Color silvery on sides, becom- 

 ing darker above; fins colorless. This species differs from Oligoplites 

 altus in the much larger mouth and in having the suborbital bones notched 

 posteriorly. Oligoplites saliens of the West Indies seems to be more elon- 

 gate in body and with the suborbitals even behind as in 0. altus. Pacific 

 coast of tropical America. 



This description is based on a specimen 11 inches long from San Juan 

 Lagoon, Mexico, at the mouth of Ahome River, collected by the Albatross. 

 Three other specimens from Algodones Lagoon, Mexico (Albatross Coll.), 

 agree in every respect, except that 1 of them has but 4 free spines in 

 front of dorsal. 



Numerous other specimens have been since brought by Dr. Gilbert from 

 Panama. 



Oligophites mundut, JORDAN & STARKS, in JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fishes, 344. 

 1896, Mazatlan, Mexico; name only. 



Page 909. The Californian species Traclmrus symmetries is probably a 

 species distinct from T. picturatus, described from Madeira. The two 

 forms have never been properly compared. 



Page 912. The identity of Hemicaranx amllyrhynchus with Caranxfal- 

 catus, Holbrook, needs proof. The latter species, if distinct, may be de- 

 scribed as follows: 



