290 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



FlSTULARID^E. 



4. Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus. C. M. Cat. No. 1244. 



MUGILID/E. 



5. Agonostomus monticola (Bancroft). Fresh-waters of St. Croix. 

 C. M. Cat. No. 1200. 



6. Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz. Fresh-waters of Barbadoes, and 

 Georgetown Market. C. M. Cat. No. 1433. . * 



7. Mugil curema Cuvier & Valenciennes. Georgetown Market. 

 C. M. Cat. No. 1472. 



POLYNEMID/E. 



8. Polydactylus virginicus (Linnaeus). Georgetown Market. 

 C. M. Cat. No. 1470, 



HOLOCENTRID.*;. 



9. Myripristis jacobus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Santa Lucia. C. 

 M. Cat. No. 1 201. 



10. Helocentrus ascensionis (Osbeck). C. M. Cat. No. 1202. 



Mullid.e:. 



n. Upeneus maculatus (Bloch). C. M. Cat. No. 1203. 



12. Upeneus martinicus Cuvier & Valenciennes. C. M. Cat. No. 



1204. 



Carangid,e. 



13. Caranx latus Agassiz. C. M. Cat. No. 1205. 



14. Caranx ruber (Bloch). C. M. Cat. No. 1206. 



15. Decapterus punctatus (Agassiz). C. M. Cat. No. 1207. 



Cheilodipterid/e. 



16. Apogonichthys melampodus sp. nov. 



Type unique, 35 mm. (Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes, No. 

 1474.) St. Croix. 



D. VI— I, 9; A. II, 6; head 2.7; depth 3; scales 3-23-6; eye 

 2.5 in head; snout 5 ; maxillary 1.7 ; interorbital space 3.3. 



Head somewhat compressed ; profile evenly rounded from the snout 

 to first dorsal. Eye large ; mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching 

 the posterior border of the orbit. Teeth small, in broad bands in 

 each jaw. Teeth on vomer and palatines small. Preopercle with 

 several teeth near the angle. Gillrakers slender, 10 on the lower half 

 of first arch. First dorsal of six weak spines, the last one very small, 



