Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 943 



caudal lobes i longer thaii head. Pectoral 1 in head. Suout 3f. Least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head. Body oblong, compressed, and ele- 

 vated at bases of dorsal and anal. Anterior profile of head an even curve, 

 the snout blunt and convex, line straight from nape to dorsal. Mouth 

 moderate, very oblique, subiuferior, the lower jaw much shorter than 

 upper, the maxillary reaching to posterior border of pupil. Teeth obso- 

 lete. Tail widely forked, the lobes equal. Lobes of dorsal and anal low, 

 not sharp. Gray above with deep-green reflections, lower half silvery, 

 with strong golden tinge; axil jet black, the color covering base of fin 

 and extending behind for a distance nearly equal to eye, so that the fin 

 does not cover it, this mark said to be faint or wanting in the young ; 

 upper fin dusky, the caudal edged with paler ; anal dusky with golden 

 tinge ; ventrals purplish white ; pectorals dusky ; maxillary with a black- 

 ish streak. Tropical America, in the surf, rather common from Bahia de 

 Magdalena to Panama ; here described from a large specimen from Mazat- 

 lan, deeper in body than Steindachner's types, which have the depth If 

 to 2 in length. The Pacific Coast representative of Trachinotus goodei. 

 (Named for its discoverer, Lieutenant Kennedy, of the steamship Hassler.) 



Trncfiiinotns ki'itiiedyi, STEiNDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., in, 47, pi. vn, 1875, Magdalena Bay. 

 Truchinotus Kennedy i, MEEK & Goss, I. c., 1884, 123. 



1340. TRACHINOTUS GOODEI, Jordan & Evermann, new species. 

 (PERMIT ; PALOMETA ; GREAT PAMPANO.) 



Head 3 j depth 2f . D. VI-I, 19 ; A. II-I, 17. * Body oblong, elliptical, 

 moderately compressed ; profile nearly straight from procumbent spine to 

 nostril, where it descends nearly vertically, forming an angle ; vertical 

 portion from angle to snout nearly equaling eye ; snout obliquely trun- 

 cated ; maxillary reaching slightly behind vertical from middle of eye 

 its length 2f in head ; jaws with bands of villiform teeth (these disappear- 

 ing with age) ; ventrals reaching * distance to vent, their length 2 in 

 head ; tips of pectorals reaching slightly past tips of ventrals ; dorsal and 

 anal fins falcate, their anterior soft rays less elevated than in Trachinotus 

 falcatus, but extending beyond middle of fins when depressed, .their length 

 in the young 4 in length of body ; caudal forked, lobes about 3 in body ; 

 lateral line nearly straight, slightly curved upward above the pectorals. 

 Color bluish silvery above, silvery below ; dorsal, caudal, and anal lobes 

 black ; no cross bars. Length 3 feet. West Indies, north to West Florida ; 

 not very common. Here described from a small specimen from Key West, 

 the characters of the adult taken from Giiuther. The species reaches a 

 very large size, larger than any of the others in American waters. The 

 species is allied to the African Trachitwhi* yoreemis, Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes, but it has fewer dorsal rays (D. VI-I, 22, in T. goreensis). (Named 

 for Dr. G. Brown Goode, who first noticed the species as an inhabitant of 

 the waters of the United States.) 



Trachynotii* fon&uit, (irxTHEn, Cat., n, 483, 1860, in part; not of CUVIER & VALENCIENNES; 



GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 1879, 112 and :5.'5fl; specimen nearly 3 feet long. 

 TracJiinoiii* rluxii^m^ JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 442, 1883, and of MEEK & Goss, I. c.; not of 



GILL. 



