Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North America. 1111 



head with numerous silver-centered brown spots. Caudal, dorsal, and 

 anal fins dark, with dusky cross bars. Total length 1 inch, 7.5 lines; 

 head 7.5 lines. Bahamas; one specimen known. (Cope.) (stellatua, 

 with starry spots.) 

 ApogoHichthys stdlatus, COPE, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1866, 400, Nassau, Bahama Islands. 



1507. APOGONICHTHYS PUNCTICULATUS, Poy. 



Head 3| in total ; depth 3f. D. VI-1, 9 ; A. II, 8; scales 3-30-8; eye 2, 

 twice length of snout. Preopercle with both margins entire ; mouth 

 oblique, the maxillary reaching to posterior margin of pupil ; teeth in 

 villiform bands ; ventral reaching beyond pectoral to middle of anal tin. 

 Scales cycloid. Reddish with blue reflections on the opercle ; head and 

 middle of trunk covered with black specks, as are also the fins, except 

 the pectoral, which is blackish at the tip. Cuba. (Poey.) Not seen by 

 us. (puncticulatus, with fine specks.) 



ApogoiiichtJnjs puncticulalus, POET, Repertorio, u, 233, 1867, Cuba. 



483. GLOSSAMIA, Gill. 



Glostamia, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 82, (oprion). 



This genus contains a few species with small, cycloid scales, 40 to 4o in 

 the lateral line, and the preopercle entire. The anal is short, as in Apogon 

 and Apogonichthys, its rays being about II, 9. (yAwcrcra, tongue ; 

 Amia = Apogon. ) 



1508. GLOSSAMIA PANDIONIS (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4; depth 4. D. VII-I, 9; A. II, 8; scales small, cycloid, 3-45-9. 

 Body oblong, rather robust, not elevated nor greatly compressed. Eye 

 very large, forming nearly half the length of the side of the head, much 

 greater than the interorbital space ; maxillary as long as eye, extending 

 to opposite front of pupil ; preopercle entire. Gill rakers very long and 

 slender. Mouth oblique, but not nearly vertical, the lower jaw projecting. 

 Teeth in jaws very feeble ; feeble teeth on vomer and palatines. Fins 

 low ; caudal well forked. Color nearly plain reddish, the body and fins 

 everywhere speckled with fine dots. Deep water, off Chesapeake Bay ; 

 rare. (Pandion, the Osprey, named for the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion steamer, Fish Hawk, by which the species was dredged.) 

 Apogon pandionis, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 160, deep water, off Chesapeake 

 Bay. (Type, No. 26228.) 



484. EPIGONUS,* Ratinesque. 



Epigonw, RAFINESQTJE, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 64, 1810, (macroplhalmus = leletcopium). 



Pomatomus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 171, 1828, (telescopium, not of LACEPEDE). 



Telescope, BLEEKER, Archiv. Neerl., xi, 261, 1876, (telescopium). 



Pomatomichthys, GiGLiOLi, Elenco Pesci Italia, 1880, 80, (conslancise = telescopium). 



*The name Pomatomus can not be used for this genus. Pomatomus was originally framed by 

 Lacepede for the biuefish, his "Pomatomus skib." Later, in 1810, Risso described the type of 

 Epigonus, referring it to Pomatomus as a second species of that genus. Cuvier arbitrarily renamed 

 the biuefish Temnodon and retained Pomatomus for the type of Epigonus, a form unknown to 

 Lacepede. In defiance of rules of nomenclature, most European writers have followed Cuvier 

 in this arrangement. 



