Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1355 



trals If to 2 in head. Scales large, in about 5 vertical series on cheeks. 

 Color dull silvery with pearly markings, without blue stripes; a faint 

 pale streak below eye; axil with a small inky black spot; ventrals black- 

 ish ; dark crossbars on body usually persistent. A small specimen in the 

 museum at Cambridge, which may be the type of Poey's Fagellm humilis, 

 belongs to this species. This example is 6 inches long, the eye nearlv 4 in 

 head, the depth 2^ in length, and the pectoral as long as head. The type 

 of Calamus microps Guicheuot, is in the museum at Paris. It agrees with 

 calamus pcnna in all respects except the size of the eye, which is 4 in 

 head. Southern Florida to Brazil, common ; known from Charlotte Harbor, 

 Key West, Rio Janeiro, St. Thomas, Havana, Camaru, and Rio Grande do 

 Sul. (penna, a quill or pen.) 



Pagellus penna, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 209, 1830, Brazil. 



Pauellus microps, GuiOHENOT, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 188, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1845, 



Havana. 



Pagellus humilis, POEY, Synopsis, 308, 1868, Havana. 

 Purlins inilneri, GOODE & MEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 134, Charlotte Harbor, 



Florida. (Type, No. 6134. Coll. C. B. Baker.) 

 Grammateus humilis, POEY, Enumeratio, 56, 1875. 

 Sparvs inilneri, JORDAN &. GILBERT, Synopsis, 556. 

 Calamus penna, JORDAN &. GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 21; JORDAN &FESLER, 



Z.c.,514. 



1729. CALAMUS ABCTIFROS, Goode & Bean. 



(GRASS PORQY; SHAD PORGY.) 



Head 3* ; depth 2; ; scales 6-48-13. D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 10. Body ohlong, 

 the back little elevated, not nearly so much as in C. penna, the anterior 

 profile unevenly curved, very convex before eye; head narrow above; 

 dorsal outline not forming a regular arch, the anterior profile straight 

 from base of spinous dorsal to nape, where a rather sharp angle is formed, 

 thence straightish above eye, the snout convex; nearly straight along 

 base of spinous dorsal ; scales on cheek in 4 or 5 series ; the orbitals, snout, 

 chin, and edge of preopercle, naked. Preorbital deep, its depth 2 in head, 

 and nearly twice diameter of eye, which is 4 to 5 in head; pectoral 3| in 

 body, reaching past tips of ventrals; longest dorsal spine 2 in head; 

 third anal spine the longest, 5; canine teeth 8-10 ; gill rakers small and 

 blunt, about 4 -f- 6. Color olivaceous with dark bars or spots, the centers 

 of many scales pearly; 6 yellowish spots along the lateral line; pre- 

 orbital brownish, usually with dashes of golden yellow; membrane of 

 opercle orange; fins mostly barred or spotted; ventrals pale, faintly 

 barred. Gulf of Mexico, from Pensacola to Key West; a small porgy 

 common in the eel grass about Key West, and ranging northward at least 

 to Peusacola ; not known from the West Indies, (arctus, contracted ; 

 from, forehead.) 



Calamus arclifrons, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 425, Pensacola (Type, 

 No. 30163. Coll. Silas Stearns); JORDAN &. GILBERT, Synopsis, 928; JORDAN & 

 GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1884, 23 ; JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 

 232; JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 514. 



