Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 3173 



Color in spirits : Silvery, side with bluish longitudinal lines following 

 the rows of scales, plainest above; a pale-blue line bordering the orbit 

 below ; some blue lines on preorbital, not evidently reticulated and not as 

 numerous as in C.proridens; iris yellow; otherwise as in C. proridens to 

 which this species is very close. 



Puerto Rico ; known from the type, a specimen 10.5 inches long, from 

 Mayagiiez, January 20, 1899, and 2 cotypes, each 8.5 inches long, one from 

 Mayagiiez, the other from Arroyo, all collected by the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion expedition to Puerto Rico. (Named for Dr. William Converse Ken- 

 dall, assistant, U. S. Fish Commission.) 



Calamus kendalll, EVERMANN & MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 354, 

 Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (Type, No 49362, U.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann fc Marsh.) 



Page 1417. For Nelris zestus, Jordan & Starks, substitute Xebris occi- 

 dentalis, Vaillant. 



The synonymy of this species is as follows : 

 .Nebris occidcntalis, VAILLANT, Xotes from the Leyden Museum, XX, 20, October, 1897, 



Panama ; after description by Jordan & Eigenmann. 



Ncbri* zestus, JORDAN &. STARKS, in Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North &, Middle 

 America, Fart II, 1417, October 3, 1898, Panama. (Type, Xo. 433, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mas. 

 Coll. Dr. C. H. Gilbert.) 



Page 1439. After BairdieUa chrysoleuca (Giiuther), insert the following : 

 1820 (a). BAIRDIELLA MIACAXTHA (Boulenger). 



Head 3 to 3|; depth 3 to 3^; eye4J to 4, 1 to 1^ in interorbital width. 

 D. XI, 21 or 22; A. II, 7 or 8; scales 5 or 6-45 to 49-11 or 12, 50 to 55 

 pores. Snout round, scarcely longer than eye ; mouth inferior, compressed, 

 scarcely oblique, with simple subequal teeth, the gape reaching anterior 

 or ^ of eye; 2 very strong spines at angle of preopercle, the lower 

 directed downward; gill-rakers very short, 10 or 11 on lower arm of first 

 arch ; third dorsal spine longest, i to f length of head; pectoral 1 in head; 

 first anal spine very small, the second small, 2 to 3 in head, or 1| in long- 

 est soft ray; caudal acuminate; caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. 

 Grayish above, with faint brown stripes following series of scales; silvery 

 below. Close to />'. chrt/solenca, Giinther, from which it is sufficiently dis- 

 tinguished by the less development of the second anal spine, the smaller 

 mouth, and the feebler dentition. Length 21 cm. Three specimens known 

 from the port of Guayaquil. (Boulenger.) 



Corvina miacanthus, BOULENGER, Bollettino del Mus. di Zool. ed Anat. Comp. della 

 Univ. di Torino, Yol. xiv, No. 335, 5, Feb. 15, 1899, poit of Guayaquil (Coll. Dr. 

 Enrico Festa.) 



Page 1526. After Cichlasoma centrarcJius (Gill & Bransford), insert: 

 1923 (a). CICHLASOMA STEINDACHNERI, Jordan & Snyder. 



Head2; depth 3; depth of caudal peduncle 7; eye 3f in head; snout 

 2$; interorbital space 5; longest dorsal spine 4, ray 2; longest anal spine 

 2f, ray 2; length of pectorals H; ventrals If ; caudal 1; D. XVI, 10; A. V, 

 8; P. 14; scales 26-14, 7 on caudal peduncle. Length of head exceeding its 

 depth a distance equal to diameter of orbit; body elongate, deepest above 



