Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1365 



Very likely it is the common European picarel, Spicara smaris (L.), and it 

 may have come from the coasts of France. Errors of locality are common 

 in museums, and the "Cabinet du Roi" has not been exempt from them. 

 (Name from Martinique.) 



Smarts martinicus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 424, 1830, Martinique. 

 Spicara martinica, JORDAN & FESLER, I. c., 527, 1893. 



558. EMMELICHTHYS, Richardson. 



Emmelichthys, RICHARDSON, Voyage Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 47, 1846 (nitidus). 

 Erythrichtliys, TEMMINTJK & SCHLEOEL, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 117, 1847 (schlegeli). 

 Boxaodon, GUICHENOT, in Gay, Hist. Chili, n, 208, 1847 (cyanescens). 

 Dipterygonotus, SLEEKER, Contr. Ichth. Celebes, 1848 (leucogrammicus). 

 Inermia, POEY, Memorias, n, 193, 1860 (viltata). 



Body elongate, not much compressed, covered with moderate scales; 

 head long; mouth moderate, oblique, premaxillaries excessively protrac- 

 tile; teeth obsolete; maxillary broad, scaly; lower jaw projecting; axil- 

 lary scale large, preopercle entire or serrulate; opercle ending in a point. 

 Dorsal fins separate, the first with slender spines, 1 or 2 of them free 

 from membrane; soft dorsal short and low, naked, with a sheath of scales 

 at base; both fins pointed behind; anal spines obscure; caudal widely 

 forked. Pyloric cu>ca few. This genus contains about 5 species, bright 

 colored fishes, inhabiting rather deep water or going in schools in the open 

 seas. The species are not well known, and each one of them has been 

 made the type of a distinct genus by authors not acquainted with related 

 forms. We are not quite certain that Emmelichthys is prior to Erytliricli- 

 thys, nor are we sure that but one genus of Emmelichthyincc should be 

 recognized. Our species, called Inermia (inermw, unarmed), agrees with 

 Emmelichthys in having a rounded preopercle, that of Erythrichthys being 

 nearly a right angle. Erythrichthys has larger scales and a very broad, 

 scaly maxillary. Emmelichthys has the maxillary moderate, while in 

 Inermia it is figured as narrow, (ev, within ; JLI /la, black ; ^Ot>, fish. ) 



Subgenus INERMIA, Poey. 

 1742. EMMELICHTHYS VITTATUS (Poey). 



(BO(iA. ) 



Head 4; depth 4f; eye 3 in head; snout 3. D. XI, III-I, 10; A. Ill, 9; 

 scales 100. Vertebrae 12+14. Body slender, fusiform, back rounded, the 

 section of the body forming an oval of which the small diameter is the 

 large. Maxillary narrow, not wider than pupil, extending beyond front 

 of eye, about 2-| in head; jaws subequal; premaxillary processes very 

 long ; jaws without teeth ; pharyngeal teeth present ; preorbital moderate, 

 i diameter of eye; preopercle with its vertical limb entire, the angle 

 with flat, thin serrse, the outline rounded, the bone cavernous anteriorly ; 

 lower jaw not cavernous; opercle with a rough point; nostrils small, 

 placed high ; lower jaw without pores; lateral line with a slight keel pos- 

 teriorly. Body everywhere with small scales except on tip of snout; 



