ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 269 



"Genus 21. ALBULA (Gronow). Bloch & Schneider." 

 "The characters of this genus are included above with those of 

 the family." 



"26. Albula vulpes (Linnaeus)." 

 "Macabi"; "Piojo"; Lady-fish ; Bone-fish ; Banana-fish. 

 "Head, 3.4; depth, 4.5; eye, 7; snout, 2.2; maxillary, 3 

 interorbital, 3.8; preorbital, 5.6; D. 15; A. 8; pectoral, 1.9 

 ventral, 2.4; caudal, 1.1; scales, 9-70-6. Body elongate, robust 

 the trunk covered with long shining scales with membranous edges 

 head large, naked, subconic ; the snout pig-like, overhanging the 

 inferior mouth, which is armed with villiform teeth ; eye high in 

 position, midway between tip of snout and edge of opercle, entirely 

 covered, save for a circular central opening smaller than pupil, with 

 an adipose eyelid ; vertical fins scaled, the dorsal and anal very 

 densely ; caudal widely forked, upper lobe the longer ; median line 

 of back with one series of modified scales, which are smaller and 

 narrower than those of body and have a long membranous appendage 

 much narrower than the scale, this appendage alone exposed. Color 

 bright-silvery, darker above ; faint longitudinal dark or bluish streaks. 

 A metamorphosis (as in Elops~) takes place in the young, previous to 

 which they do not resemble the adult. 



"Tropical seas, on sandy coasts, almost universally distributed 

 and generally abundant, ranging northward on our coasts to San 

 Diego and Massachusetts. Three examples in the collection, one 19 

 inches long, the others about 12 inches, from San Juan market and 

 Culebra Island. Used as food to some extent, but not highly 

 esteemed. ' ' 



" Umbarana. Maregrave, Hist. Bras., 1648, Brazil. 



" Vulpes bahamanesis (the bone-fish). Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caro- 

 linas, pi. 11, fig. 1, 1737, Bahamas. 



" Esox vulpes. Linnasus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 313, Bahamas ; 

 after Catesby. 



"Argentina glossodontct. Forskal, Descr. Anim., 68, 1775, 

 Djidda, Arabia. 



" Macabi. Parra, Dif. Piezas, Cuba, 88, pi. 35, fig. 1, 1787, 

 Cuba ; on Umbarana of Maregrave. 



" Synodus argenteus. Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icth., 398, 1801, 

 Asia. 



