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Color in life of a specimen 5.13 inches long, almost uniform coppery bronze; ;i dark area along 

 base of* anal; dorsal darker than body; dorsal and ventral without spots, a few little smokj blotches 

 on each web. (T. ) Species not previously recorded from the United states. 



Family APOGONICHTHYIDjE. 



70. Amia americana (Castelnau.) 



Color plain red with Mark dots, in life, with a pinkish silvery sheen, each scale with a gray snot. 

 microscopically composed of line radiating lines, between these spots black dots with a bright red spot; 

 to] of head with a silvery green sheen, snout very dusky: pectoral pinkish; ventral while; anal pink- 

 ish, scales al base a trifle pink; caudal with body pink, upper and lower margin black, rays spotted; 

 second dorsal with some rays spotted; first dorsal spines much darker and with spotted webs; spot at 

 base of caudal 0.83 inch in diameter, solid color; an oblong spot on opercle from lower and posterior 

 border of eye to gill-margin, not quite as wide as pupil at beginning, wider below, sides straight. Bell) 

 white, lower jaw dark like snout, nape profusely speckled. (T.) 



71. Amia sellicauda i Evermann & Marsh |. 



Many specimens, agreeing closely with the original description, except that in the latter the 

 bilobed caudal tin is figured as truncate. Color in life, nil; a blackish blotch at hase of second dorsal; 

 a blackish saddle on caudal peduncle; blackish mark on opercle, also a golden tinge; rays of all tins a 

 darker red than body; iris black; minute black dots about orbit and snout. In some specimens there 

 is a blackish line at the base of the second dorsal, where the tin joins the body; tip of anal sooty; cau- 

 dal SOOty rimmed. (T.) New to the fauna of the United States. 



72. Mionorus puncticulatus (Poey.) 



One example. Scales in lateral line I'll. It is probable that AjiiKjmiii-lilliii.i ulutus is identical with 

 this species. 



Color, very light pink with a strong silvery sheen; an area of minute black dots below ey< and 

 another behind it. Dots most numerous above lateral line, and densest forward. Length 1.5 inches. 

 Taken in West Channel, with dynamite, at depth of 35 feet. (T. ) 



Of the genera related to Amia Gronow (=Apogon Lacepede), but differing in having both limbs of 

 the preopercle entire, Apogonichlhys-Fowh ria i auritus) is distinguished by the absence of palatine teeth, 

 Fort Jordan and Evermann [brachygramma) by its incomplete lateral line, and Mionorus [lunatus) by 

 having palatine teeth, and the lateral line complete. 



Family OXYLABRACID£. 



73. Oxylabrax undecimalis (Bloch). 



Two specimens taken. The genus Centropomus of Lacepede was based originally on /'. ,. < 

 IwAoperca of Europe. 



Family SERRAN1D.E. 



74. Cephalopholis fulvus (Linnaeus). 



Recorded by Garman; not seen by Dr. Thompson. 



75. Cephalopholis cruentatus ( Lacepede). 

 Recorded by Dr. Hensball, 1889, from the Tortugas. 



76. Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck). 



Seen swimming slowly in and out of rock crevices; observed for two weeks, probably the same 

 individual. 



Spinous dorsal dusky over greater part, this coextensive with much paler blue area on body; 

 maxillary and lower lip dusky; snout below nostril and cheek below eye deeper blue than rest of 

 hoily; pectoral hyaline, rays dusky; ventral, anal, and caudal dusky; abdomen grayish blue, shading 

 and evanescent; nape gray-blue at times; tip of caudal peduncle darkest. ( T. ) 



77. Epinephelus maculosus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Loggerhead Shoals, west of light-house. (T. ) 



