860 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Upeneus martinieus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 483, 1829, Martinique; 



young ; HALL & MCCAUGHAN, I. c., 154, 1885. 



Upeneus balteatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 484, 1829, Cuba ; young. 

 Upeneus flavovittatus, POET, Memorias, I, 224, 1851, Cuba ; adult. 

 Hulloides flavovittatus, GUNTHEB, Cat., i, 403, 1859. 



1250. UPENEUS XANTHOGRAMMUS, Gilbert. 



Head 3f ; depth 4 to 4i ; eye If in snout, 3f in head, in specimens 10| 

 inches long, (1^ in snout, 3i in head, in martinieus of the same size.) D. 

 VII-I, 8; A. II, 6. Pores in lateral line 38, not counting two on base of 

 caudal. Two and one-half rows of scales between lateral line and base 

 of spinous dorsal. Fifteen developed gill rakers on horizontal limb of 

 outer arch, with 5 smaller rudiments. Spinous dorsal not high, less than 

 depth of body, 1| to 1| in head. Pectorals pointed, scarcely reaching tips 

 of ventrals, H in head. Ventrals reaching halfway to front of anal. 

 Caudal very deeply forked, the lobes sharp, the upper the longer, equal- 

 ing the length of head. Barbels reaching vertical from preopercle. 

 Teeth in a narrow band anteriorly in each jaw, and in a single series 

 laterally. Maxillary very wide posteriorly, projecting well beyond the 

 border of the preorbital, its width orbit. Red, with a broad yellow 

 streak along sides. La Paz, Lower California. Very close to Upeneus 

 martinieus , the head smaller, the eye much smaller, (gavdos, yellow; 

 ypan/u.?], line.) 

 Upeneus xanthogrammus, GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 553, La Paz. (Coll. Albatross.) 



1251. UPENEUS GRANDISQUAMIS, Gill. 



(CHIVO.) 



Head 3 to 3 ; depth 3 to 3| ; eye 4 ; snout about 2*. D. VIII-I, 8 ; A. 

 1, 6 ; scales 2-30 to 32-5. Teeth on anterior part of jaws in 2 series, those 

 of the outer series of the upper jaw very obtuse and partly confluent. 

 Barbels reaching to vertical from root of pectoral fins. Color light 

 greenish brown above, rose^colored below lateral line; scales with indis- 

 tinct pearly spot at center ; black blotch on lateral line behind spinous 

 dorsal ; a smaller, somewhat indistinct black spot behind orbit ; dorsal 

 fins spotted with color of back ; other fins immaculate. Pacific Coast of 

 Mexico and Central America ; Guaymas to Panama ; generally common. 

 (grandis, large; squama, scale.) 

 Upeneus grandisquamis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 1863, 168, west coast of Central 



America ; STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, iv, 6, 1875 ; HALL & MCCAUGHAN, I. c., 155, 



1885 ; EVERMANN & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 156. 

 Upeneus tetraspilus, GUNTIIER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 148, Panama ; GUNTHER, Fishes 



Cent. Amer., 420, pi. 66, fig. 1, 1864. 



Group SCOMBROIDEI. 

 (THE MACKEREL-LIKE FISHES.) 



Body variously formed, usually adapted for rapid swimming; the scales 

 usually small and cycloid or wanting, sometimes transformed into rough 



