Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 817 



verse series, 23 before the dorsal. The front part of the upper lip is 

 extremely thick and conically produced, nearly as long as rest of snout; 

 low part of each lip with a band of soft pavement-like papillae, arranged 

 in oblique series ; lower jaw rather narrow ; cleft of mouth deeper than 

 broad ; in some specimens the band of papilla) passes into a series of fine 

 movable teeth anteriorly on the upper jaw. Upper anterior profile nearly 

 straight, obliquely descending ; interorbital space convex, 2 in head, and 

 scaly ; preorbital area naked. Maxillary entirely hidden by the preor- 

 bital, which has the extremity truncated and minutely serrated. The 

 spinous dorsal begins somewhat nearer base of caudal than to end of 

 snout ; the soft dorsal and anal with small scales between the rays, the 

 former is higher than the spinous dorsal, and commences above the middle 

 of the anal fin ; anal fin rather higher than long, as high as soft dorsal ; 

 pectoral 1 J in head ; caudal emarginate. Silvery, upper parts greenish ; 

 dark stripes of spots along the series of scales. (Giinther.) Pacific Coast 

 of tropical America; generally common in rock pools. Length 6 inches. 

 Known from Mazatlan, Cordova, and Panama, (proboscideus, having a 

 proboscis.) 



Mugil proboscideus, GUNTHER, Cat., in, 459, 1861, Island of Cordova, west coast of Cen- 

 tral America. (Coll. G. U. Skinner and Captain Dow.) 

 Chsenomugil proboscideus, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 272. 



366. QUERIMANA, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Querimana, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 588, (harengus). 



This genus includes little mullets, with but 2 spines in the anal fin 

 and with the teeth in the jaws less ciliiform than in Mugil. Adipose eye- 

 lid wanting; preorbital serrate. The species are all American, of small 

 size, and some of them swim in great schools at the surface. Querimana is 

 close to the Australian genus Myxus, but Myxus has 3 anal spines. (Quer- 

 iman, a Portuguese name of Mugil curema.) 



a. Teeth in lower jaw obsolete; species of small size. 



b. Scales small, 38 ina longitudinal series; dorsal fin IV-I, 8; anal II, 9 or 10. 



HARENGUS, 1192- 



bb. Scales large, 28 or 29 in a longitudinal series; dorsal fin IV-I, 8; anal II, 7 or 8. 



GYRANS, 1193. 



1192. QUERIMANA HARENGUS (Gunther). 

 (EL VERDE.) 



Head 3i; depth 3i to 4, Dorsal IV-I, 8; anal II, 10; scales 38. Head 

 and body compressed ; cleft of mouth broader than deep, not reaching 



reaching fourteenth scale of lateral line. Spinous dorsal commences midway between snout and 

 base of caudal, or above the sixteenth scale of lateral line; soft dorsal begins above the twenty- 

 sixth scale, or above the third soft anal ray. Soft dorsal not -caly, much higher than long, as 

 high as anal, which is longer than the dorsal. Body with about 11 brownish-black longitudinal 

 streaks produced by a series of spots, one always belonging to the cuticular fold covering base 

 of scale. (Giinther.) One specimen from unknown locality, supposed to be from St. Vincent. 

 Whether of the Cape Verde Islands or of the West Indies is unknown, (niger, black; strigalus, 

 streaked.) 



Mugil nigro-striyatus, GI'NTHEB, Cat., in, 457, 1861, supposed to be from St. Vincent. 

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