368 NEW YORK STATE MUSEIUM 



Querimana gyrans Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 26, 1884; Jor- 

 dan & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 818, 1896. 



Body robust, its greatest depth three elevenths of the total 

 length without caudal; head short, its length contained four 

 and one fifth times in total to caudal base; snout moderately 

 acute, its upper and lower profiles equally oblique; interorbital 

 space little convex, its width two fifths of the length of the 

 head; upper lip remarkably thick; space between the mandibles 

 underneath narrow, oblanceolate, rather pointed behind; an 

 adipose membrane covering all but the central part of the eye; 

 teeth comparatively large and wide set, about as long as the 

 nostril; about 21 rows of scales between origin of spinous dor- 

 sal and tip of snout, soft dorsal and anal densely scaled, the 

 margin of soft dorsal concave, the second, and longest, ray two 

 and three fourths times as long as the seventh; anal similar to 

 soft dorsal; the pectoral short, not reaching nearly to vertical 

 from front of spinous dorsal; caudal large, deeply forked. D. 

 IV-I, 8; A. Ill, 8. Scales 33-11. 



Upper parts dusky, olivaceous, with bluish reflections, lower 

 parts silvery; scales without dusky spots; a dark blotch at 

 base of pectoral; dorsals and caudal pale, the dorsals with 

 minute dark points, caudal with a dark margin; anal and 

 ventrals yellowish; pectorals pale, with fine brown punctula- 

 tions. 



The fantail mullet ranges from Brazil to the Florida Keys 

 and Cuba. The young, which is Querimana gyrans of 

 Jordan & Gilbert, migrates northward in summer to Cape Cod; 

 it has been recorded from Long Island and the vicinity of 

 Woods Hole Mass. 



The species reaches the length of 10 inches. 



Family sphyrj^^enidae^ 



Barracudas 



Genus sphyraena (Artedi) Bloch & Schn. 



Body elongate, subterete, covered with small cycloid scales; 



head very long, pointed, pikelike, scaly above and on sides; 



mouth horizontal, large; jaws elongate, the lower considerably 



projecting, upper jaw nonprotractile, its border formed by the 



