2846 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



uncovered; caudal fin wide, well forked, the upper lobe the longer, the 

 longest ray not quite total length of body ; pectoral fin long, 3 to 3 in 

 body (2f to 2f in atrimanus} ; ventrals 2g to 2f in head. Scales as in atri- 

 -manus; lateral line with a very strong curve anteriorly, the height of the 

 curve 2f to 3 in its length ; its length 2 to 2 in the straight portion ; 

 entire length of straight portion with scutes, which are very small in 

 front and behind; scutes considerably wider and lower than in atrimanus, 

 the widest about \ diameter of orbit (about \ diameter of orbit in atri- 

 mamis). Coloration much as in H. atrimanus, but darker, and the fins 

 without yellow; blackish olive above, dusky silvery below; top of head 

 and snout black; spinous dorsal and the broad margins of soft dorsal and 

 anal black ; caudal dark, margined with black ; pectorals very dark, black 

 inside, the extreme lower rays light; a large jet-black blotch at base, on 

 each side of pectorals, extending for about the whole length of the fin; 

 axil black. Closely related to Hemicaranx atrimanus. Like it, it has a 

 large jet-black area at axil and base of pectoral, and differs from it in the 

 following characters: In having a shorter pectoral, shorter ventrals, pro- 

 file of snout more rounded, a lower spino.us dorsal, a shorter maxillary, a 

 higher, shorter curvean lateral line, wider scutes, which are less sharply 

 carinated, and darker fins. Panama. (^eXorrjs, an imitator.) 



Page 921. Caranx crysos and Caranx pisquetus are probably distinct spe- 

 cies, the former ranging from New York to Florida, the latter from the 

 West Indies to Brazil. 



In Caranx pisquetus the pectoral fins are very long, as in the Pacific spe- 

 cies Caranx caballus, from which we can not separate it. The species need 

 further study. 



Page 934. After Vomer setipinnis add: 



1329(a). VOMER SPIXII (Swainson). 



Head 2|; depth If; D. VI-I, 22; A. 1, 18; eye 3f in head; maxillary 2; 

 snout li; caudal 1. Body very deep, in form much like Selene arstedii; 

 profile very steep, almost vertical; snout slightly protruding. Mouth 

 oblique, maxillary reaching to the vertical from front of eye; gill rakers 

 7 to 27, the longest a little more than eye. Lateral line strongly arched 

 in front, the arch 1 the straight part; plates of lateral line little differ- 

 entiated; pectoral falcate, as long or slightly longer than head; ventrals 

 small, under base of pectorals. Color bluish above, sides silvery, fins 

 except ventrals and anal dusky. Here described from specimens from 

 Jamaica about 10 inches in length. These specimens are evidently differ- 

 ent from the Northern Tower setipinnis (Vomer Irowtii), the body in spec- 

 imens of the same length being much deeper. It corresponds to the figur 

 given by Agassiz of Vomer browni, this figure being the basis of Vomer 

 spixii of Swainson. Probably all West Indian records of Vomer setipinnis 

 belong to Vomer spixii. (Named for Jean Baptiste Spix, of Munich, natur- 

 alist and explorer.) 



Platysomus spixii, SWAINSON, Class. Fishes, in, 250 and 406, 1839, Brazil; after AGASSIZ & 



SPIX. 

 Tomer gabonengis, GUICHKNOT, Ann. Soc. Maine et Loire, 1865, 42, Gaboon. 



