Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 979 



identical with Pcmpheria schomlnirt/lii. (Named for the noted comparative 

 anatomist, Prof. Johannes Miiller, who wrote on the fishes of Barbados.) 



Peniphcris miiUt'ri, POEY, Memorias, n, 203, 1860, Cuba; (the later Peinpheris mitlh-ri of Klun- 



zinger is a different species). 

 PcmpJicris xchninburyki, JOUDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 38, aud 1890, 317; perhaps not of 



Mi' I.U:K & TBOSCHKL. 



1378. PEMPHERIS POEYI, Bean. 



Head 3 ; depth 2i ; eye 2| ; snout 2 in eye. D. IV, 8 ; A, III, 24 ; scales 

 2-56-12. Maxillary about | as long as head, its posterior extremity 

 very much widened; mandible slightly longer than maxilla, its length 

 nearly | greatest height of body ; width of interorbital space equal to -J 

 length of maxillary ; origin of dorsal slightly behind vertical through 

 origin of ventral ; distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal not 

 much more than length of anal base ; longest dorsal ray slightly exceed- 

 ing i length of head ; origin of dorsal fin considerably in advance of 

 middle of total length ; origin of anal directly under end of dorsal ; 

 length of anal base equal to greatest height of body and not much in 

 excess of length of head ; origin of ventral almost directly under that of 

 dorsal ; third ray of ventral as long as eye ; pectoral 4 in body ; caudal 

 imperfect in type. Cuba. Only the type known. (Bean.) Named for 

 Prof. Felipe Poey, who collected the type of the species.) 



Peinpheris poeyi, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Muer, 1885, 229, Havana. (Type, No. 37184. Coll 

 Poey.) 



Group PERCOIDEA.* 

 (THE PERCH-LIKE FISHES.) 



A group of fishes of diverse habits and forms, but on the whole, repre- 

 senting better than any other the typical Acanthopterygian fish. The 

 group is incapable of concise definition, or, in general, of any definition 

 at all; still, most of its members are definitely related to each other, and 

 bear in one way or another a resemblance to the typical form, the perch, 

 or more strictly to its marine relatives, the sea bass or Serranidce. The 

 following analysis gives most of the common characters of the group: 



Body usually oblong, covered with scales, which are typically ctenoid, 

 not smooth nor spinous, and of moderate size. Lateral line typically 

 present and concurrent with the back. Head usually compressed later- 

 ally, and with the cheeks and opercles scaly. Mouth various, usually 

 terminal and with lateral cleft, the teeth various, but typically pointed, 

 arranged in bands on the jaws, vomer, and palatine bones; gill rakers 

 usually sharp, stoutish, armed with teeth ; lower pharyngeals almost 

 always separate, usually armed with cardiform teeth; third upper 



* As these sheets are passing through tho press we have received, through the courtesy of our 

 friend, Dr. G. A. Boulenger, of the British Museum, proof sheets of the first volume of his 

 " Catalogue of the Perciform Fishes in the British Museum." This gives promise of being, like 

 its prototype, Dr. Giinther's "Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum," a monumental 

 work indispensable to all students of fishes. We have made free reference to Dr. Boulenger's 

 conclusions in those genera of Perciformes or Percoidea, in which his work is printed in advance 

 of ours. 



