Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 3173 
Color inspirits: Silvery, side with bluish longitudinal lines following 
the rows of scales, plainest above; a pale-blue line bordering the orbit 
below; some blue lines on preorbital, not evidently reticulated and not as 
numerous as in C. proridens ; iris j^ellow; otherwise as in C. proridens, to 
which this species is very close. 
Puerto Rico ; known from the type, a specimen 10.5 inches long, from 
Mayagiiez, January 20, 1899, and 2 cotypes, each 8.5 inches long, one from 
Mayagliez, the other from Arroyo, all collected by the U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion expedition to Puerto Rico. (Xarued for Dr. William Converse Ken- 
dall, assistant, U. S. Fish Commissiou.) 
Calamus kendalli, Evermann A: Marsh, Eept. U. S. Fish Com. 1.S99 (Dec. 19, 1899), 354, 
Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico. (Type, No 49362, U.S.N.M. Coll. Everniaim Jc Marsh.) 
Page 1417. For Xehris zestus, Jordan & Starks, substitute Xehris occi- 
dentalis, Vaillant. 
The synonymy of this species is as follows : 
Xehris occidcntalis, Yaillant, Notes from the Leyden Museum, XX, 20, October, 1897, 
Panama ; after description by Jordan A; Eigenmann. 
Xehris zestus, Jordan A; Starks, in Jordan A: Evermann, Fishes North A: Middle 
America, Fart II, 1417, October 3, 1898, Panama. (Type, No. 433, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 
Coll. Dr. C. H. Gilbert.) 
Page 1439. After BairdieUa dinjsoleuca (Giinther ), insert the following : 
1820 (a). BAIRDIELL.t MI.ACAXTH.A (Boulenger). 
Head to 3J; depth 3^ to 3+; eyeJJ to 1 to IJ in iuterorbital width. 
D. XI, 21 or 22; A. II, 7 or 8; scales 5 or 6-45 to 49-11 or 12, 50 to 55 
pores. Snout round, scarcely longer than eye ; mouth inferior, compressed, 
scarcely oblique, with simple subequal teeth, the gape reaching anterior 
or ^ of eye; 2 very strong spines at angle of preopercle, the lower 
directed downward'; gill-rakers very short, 10 or 11 on lower arm of first 
arch ; third dorsal spine longest, 3 to f length of head ; pectoral 1^ in head ; 
first anal spine very small, the second small, 24 to 3 in head, or 1|^ in long- 
est soft ray; caudal acuminate; caudal pedirnclea little longer than deep. 
Grayish above, with faint brown stripes following series of scales; silvery 
below. Close to B. clirijsolenca, Giinther, from which it is sufficiently dis- 
tinguished by the less development of the second anal spine, the smaller 
mouth, and the feebler dentition. Length 21 cm. Three specimens known 
from the port of Guayaquil. (Boulenger.) 
Corvina miacanthus, Boule.nger, Bollettino dei Mus. di Zool. ed An.^t. Comp, della 
Fniv. di Torino, Tol. xiv. No. 335, 5, Feb. 15, 1899, poit of Guayaqui'. (Coll. Dr. 
Enrico Festa.) 
Page 1526. After Cichlasoma ceiitrarcluts (Gill A: Bransford), insert: 
192.3 (a). ( ICHLASO.MA STEIM)A( HNERI, Jordan A Snyder. 
Head 2|; depth 3; depth of caudal peduncle 74; eye 3j in head; snout 
2)1; interorbital space 5; longest dorsal spine 4, ray 2; longest anal spine 
2J, ray 2; length of pectorals 14; ventfals If ; caudal 14; D. XVI, 10 ; A. V, 
8; P. 14; scales 26-14, 7 on caudal peduncle. Length of head exceeding its 
depth a distance e(inal to diameter of orbit; body elongate, deepest above 
