536 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



fins pale; tip of chin scarcely dusky. Mazatlan to coast of Colom- 

 bia ; abundant. Length 8 inches. (Named for Dr. Barton Warren Ever- 

 mann, Ichthyologist of the United States Fish Commission.) 



Synodus evermanni, JOBDAN & BOLLMAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 152, Pacific Ocean, off 

 coast of Colombia, in 33 fathoms. (Type, No. 41144. Coll. Albatross.) 



808. SYNODUS POETI, Jordan. 



Head 4; depth 6f. D. 10; A. 10 to 12; scales 4-44-4. Body terete, 

 rather robust, the snout rather long and pointed, 3f in head; mouth 

 large, the premaxillary If in head; lower jaw slightly projecting; inter- 

 orbital area concave ; supraorbital ridge present. Dorsal fin inserted 

 midway between tip of snout and front of adipose fin ; the tips of first 

 and last rays equal when the fin is deflexed. Ventrals li in head, reach- 

 ing f distance to vent ; pectorals reaching base of ventrals, 1* in head. 

 Lateral line with a slight keel posteriorly. Yellowish above, scales 

 punctate with dark; breast flesh-colored; sides with a row of irregular 

 black markings ; scapula barred with black, occasionally with a small 

 black spot, fins not barred, the caudal with dusky shades. Length 5 

 inches. Cuba; abundant. (Named for Prof. Felipe Poey, its discoverer.) 



Synodus intermedius, POEY, Enumeratio, 175, 143, 1875; not of AGASSIZ ; MEEK, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Pliila., 1884, 133. 

 Synodus poeyi, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 526, Havana. (Coll. Jordan.) 



809. SYNODUS SYNODUS (Linnaeus). 



Head3i; depth 5; eye 5f in head; snout 4; premaxillary If ; pectoral 

 2i; ventral l^- ; anal very short. D. 11; A. 8; scales 5 or 6-58-8. Top 

 of head quite warty, marked with radiating and with cross streaks 

 of warts ; interorbital space concave, marked with small warts ; supra- 

 orbital with a conspicuous bony ridge. Palatine teeth long and slender, 

 slenderer than teeth of the jaw and almost in one series. Body much 

 mottled and vermiculated with darker, and crossed by about 15 dark 

 half bands ; scapular region dusky but without distinct spot ; dorsal and 

 anal mottled, other fins plain. Coast of Brazil and Lesser Antilles, its 

 distribution imperfectly known ; our description taken from two speci- 

 mens in the museum at Paris from Bahia, types of the description of 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes. The species may not be the original Synodus of 

 Gronow and Linnaeus. No other specific name seems, however, ever to 

 have been given to it. 



? Esox synodus, LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 516, 1766, America; based on Synodus of GRONOW 



Saurus synodiis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xxn, 477, 1849. 



? Synodus fasciatus, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 321, 1804; after GHONOW. 



? Saurus varius, GUNTHER, Cat., v, 395, 1864; the true varius is a closely related species, possibly 



identical with S. synodus, representing the latter in the Western Pacific ; its scales, 60 to 



64, appear smaller than in S. synodus. 



810. SYNODUS LACERTINUS, Gilbert. 



HeadSf; depth 5; eye 6. D. 11; A. 8; scales 68. Snout short, 41- 

 in head, 2f in premaxillary, its length slightly less than its width at 

 base. Eye over middle of premaxillary, which is If in head ; interorbital 



