5120 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
99. CALAMUS PENNATULA. 
Calamus pennatula Guichenot, Revision des Pagels, 116 (Martinique). 
Habitat: West Indies. 
Etymology: Pennatula, diminutive of penna, a quill. 
This species is known only from Guichenot’s description, which has 
been verified by us on the original type by Mr. Alexandre Thominot. 
It seems to be close to C. proridens, differing in the elongate body. 
100. CALAMUS BAJONADO. (Jolt-head Porgy; Bajonado, ) 
Bajonado Parra, Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat., 1787, 13, lam. 8 (Havana). 
Sparus bajonado Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 284 (after Parra). 
Pagellus bajonado, Poey, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 177; Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 308 
(Havana). 
Calamus bajonado, Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1872, x, 176, pl. v1, f. 1 (Havana); 
Poey, Enumeratio, 55, 1875; Poey, Ann. Soc. Hist. Nat. Esp., x, 1881, 328 
(Puerto Rico); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1884, 20 (Key West, 
Havana, and elsewhere). 
Pagellus caninus, Poey, Memorias, Cuba, 1, 199, 1860 (Havana); Guichenot, Rev. 
Pagels, 123. 
Calamus plumatula Guichenot, Rev. Pagels, 119 (Martinique); Jordan, Proc. U. 8. 
Nat. Mus. 1886, 537 (reéxamination of type). 
Habitat: West Indies, north to Florida Keys. 
Etymology: Bajonado, the Cuban name, apparently equivalent to 
bayonet, and probably alluding to the interhemal. 
This species at Key West and at Havana is the most abundant of 
the genus, and reaches a larger size than any of the others. The largest 
seen by us were 22 inches long. It is the dullest in color of the large 
species.” Specimens from Porto Seguro and from the Bermudas are in 
the museum at Cambridge. The type of Calamus plumatula now in the 
museum at Paris is a young bajonado. 
101. CALAMUS BRACHYSOMUS. (Mojarra Garabata.) 
Sparus brachysomus Lockington, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1880, 284 (Magdalena Bay); Jordan 
& Gilbert, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1881, 277 (Picheluogo, Lower California); Jor- ; 
dan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1884, 21 (Mazatlan); KEvermann & Jenkins, — 
Proc. U.S. N. M. 1891, 153 (Guaymas). | 
Habitat: Gulf of California and neighboring waters. 
Ktymology: fpayss, short; capa, body. 
This species, which is allied to the Atlantic species leucosteus, is com- 
mon about the Gulf of California. A specimen from Magdalena Bay is 
in the museum at Cambridge. 
