100 THE SHORE FISHES. 
No. 3197 has, head 2.89 in length; depth 2.76; eye 6.05 in head; snout 
2.42; preorbital 6.81; width maxillary 1.63 in eye, not reaching eye; pectoral 
2.86 in length; dorsal VIII-I, 25; anal III, 21; scutes twenty-four on each side; 
breast, cheeks, opercles, and top of head scaly; teeth in upper jaw, short, blunt, 
and in two irregular series, outer teeth slightly larger, one series on lower jaw; 
fine teeth on vomer and palatines. 
No. 3172 has head 2.60 in length; depth 2.83; eye 6.44 in head; snout 
2.40; preorbital 6.44; pectoral 1.14 in length; width maxillary 1.79 in eye; 
dorsal VIII-I, 25; anal II-I, 21; fins in both specimens with a narrow scaly 
sheath and scales similar; teeth in upper jaws like those of No. 3197, but ina 
single series in each jaw; no teeth on vomer, a series of very fine teeth on pala- 
tines. 
Vomer setapinnis (MitTcuHiLt). 
JorDAN & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 934, 1900, pt. 4, pl. 144, fig. 392. 
Zeus setapinnis Mitcuitu, Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 1, p. 384, pl. 1, fig. 9. 
Three specimens 64-62 inches long from Panama Bay. M. C. Z. 29710 
(1 specimen). 
Chloroscombrus orqueta JorpaN & GILBERT. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 5, p. 646. Jorpan & EverMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, 
p- 938. 
Two specimens 53 and 64 inches long from Panama Bay. M. C. Z. 29715 
(1 specimen). 
Trachinotus rhodopus GILL. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1863, p. 85. Grtpertr & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 82. 
One specimen, No. 3119, 11 inches long from Panama. 
The prolonged vertical fins reach much beyond middle of caudal. 
Three specimens 14 and 17 inches long from Perico Island, dredged near 
shore in two fathoms. M. C. Z. 29545 (2 specimens). 
One specimen 14 inches long from Station 4596, Lat. 16°, 47’ N.; Long. 
100°, 27’ W. 
NOMEIDAE. 
Nomeus gronovii (GMELIN). 
Jorpan & EverMann, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 949. 
Gobius gronovii GMELIN, Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1789, 1, pt. 3, p. 1205. 
Two specimens, { to {8 inches long from surface at Station 4542, Lat. 14°, 
50’ N.; Long. 101°, 31’ W. M. C. Z. 29613 (1 specimen). ; 
