118 THE SHORE FISHES. 
Pectoral reaches beyond vent. 
Four specimens, M. C. Z. 29566, 33 to 47 inches long from Perico Island. 
Twelve specimens, 14 to 4g inches long from Naos Island, Panama Bay, on 
sandy beach in seine. 
Fourteen specimens, ¢ to 4 inches long, from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29425. 
February 28, 1905. 
Xystaema cinereum (WaLBAUM). 
Jorpan & EverMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1372. 
Mugil cinereus WauBaum, Artedi Piscium, 1792, p. 228. 
A specimen, No. 3368, 133 inches long from Acapulco. 
Gerres peruvianus Cuvier & VALENCIENNES. 
Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1830, 6, p. 467. GiLtBert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 115. 
A specimen, No. 3135, 93 inches long from Panama. 
The second dorsal and second anal spines are broken. There is an indica- 
tion of a black margin to the spinous dorsal; dorsal X, 9. 
KYPHOSIDAE. 
Doydixodon freminvillei VALENCIENNEs. 
Voy. Venus, 1855, 6, p. 323, pl. 5. Srarxs, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1906, 30, p. 792, pl. 66, fig. 1. 
One specimen, No. 3207, 18% inches long, probably from Wreck Bay, Chat- 
ham Island. 
Head 3.29 in length without caudal; depth 2.26; eye 6.5 in head; inter- 
orbital 2.16; dorsal XII, 193; anal III, 12. Valenciennes (loc. cit.) in his figure 
shows only 12 anal rays, but in the description says there are 15. The scales 9, 
wn Ws! ebeeeaete 
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counted downward and forward from front of soft dorsal to and including lateral 
line, downward and backward 9, from lateral line down and back to front of 
anal 16, down and forward 15, in longitudinal series 51; opercular membranes 
and base of pectoral are black; a wavy vertical line of darker color than scale 
across each scale. Spines of dorsal and anal heteracanthous. 
Thirty-seven specimens of young tg to lts inches long from Chatham Island 
shore, January 9; 1905. M. C. Z. 29544 (12 specimens). 
Kyphosus elegans (PETERS). 
Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891,14, p. 155. Jorpan & EverMann, Bull. 47, U.S. — 
Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1387. Gruspert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 116. 
Pimelepterus elegans Peters, Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, p. 707. 
Two specimens, Nos. 3350-51, 94 and 114 inches long from Acapulco. No. 
3350, M. C. Z. 29640 (1 specimen). 7 
