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diversity of details is so great that only the most prominent 
and persistent ones could be properly selected ; and as it is in- 
tended to-bring these into relation with other propositions, their 
discussion will be omitted here. 
Art. XII.—Descriptions of two new Species of Fishes from the 
Bermuda Islands; by G. BRowN GOODE. 
In a collection of fishes, including some seventy species, 
made at the Bermudas in the spring of 1872, I find two forms 
apparently undescribed, descriptions of which are given below. 
s the marine life of the Bermuda group is essentially West 
Indian in its character, these species may be regarded as addi- 
tions to the icthyological fauna of the West Indies. 
1. Diapterus Lefroyi, sp. nov. 
This species belongs to the genus Gerres as defined by Dr. 
Giinther. It is distinguished from all other members of the 
alge and family by its relatively greatly elongated form. 
he body is fusiform, compressed, its greatest height, at the 
thoracic region, béing a little less than one-fourth (23) of the 
total length and a little more than one-fourth (27) of the length 
without caudal (89): in Diapterus aprion, the most elongated 
of the species hitherto described, the greatest height is but one- 
third of the length. The height of the body is uniform under 
the spinous portion of the dorsal, sloping gently and at a nearly 
uniform angle above and below to the middle of the caudal 
peduncle. The height of the body behind the dorsal (-10) is less 
than one-half, that of the least height of the tail (06) 1s one- 
fourth of the greatest height of the body. 
The scales are large, measuring 03 and ‘04 in height and 02 
and -03 in length: they form about forty-five oblique trans- 
verse rows between the head and the caudal, four and one-half 
longitudinal rows between the back and the lateral line and ten 
ween the lateral line and the belly. 
