200 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



u There is a species of Sargus, very abundant here, which I take to be 



your S. Holbroolcii, as I kuow of no other Sargus on our coast 71 



(From the description which Professor Jordan includes in his letter, I 

 have no difficulty in recognizing the Sargus which he has observed as S. 

 HolbrooMi.) u This fish abounds off the wharves here. . . . The fisher- 

 men call it Pinfish (Paufish?), not distinguishing it from Lagodon. I 

 have obtained 50 or more specimens, all of them about 3 inches long; 



none over four Color silvery ; bluish above ; a few rather 



faint narrow dark bars along the sides and a broad and conspicuous 

 dark blotch at base of caudal peduncle above, extending down the sides 



like a bar. Specimens seen, all small The black bar on 



the caudal peduncle is very conspicuous. The fish may be known by 

 this spot when in the water." 



Table of Measurements. 



Current number of specimen. 

 Locality 



20,979 a.|20,979 6. 20,979 c. 20,979 d. 20,979 c. [20,979/. 

 Savannah Bank, Charleston. 



Length to end of middle candal rays millimetres. 



Body: 



Height at ventrals 



Least height of tail 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Lengtli of maxillary 



Length of mandible 



Diameter of eye 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Greatest height 



Length of first spine 



Length of second spine 



Lengtli of last spine 



Dorsal (soft): 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Lengtli of last ray 



Anal : 



Distai co from snout 



Length of lirst spine 



Length of second spine 



Length of third npino 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Length of last ray 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of superior external rays 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Branchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal ......I........ 



Pectoral 



Vent al 



Number of scales in lateral iine *] !"""" 



Number of tr ansverse rows above lateral iine 



Number of transverse rows below lateral line 



256 



.41 



. 09$ 



. 26$ 



.oe| 



.10 

 .09 

 .10 

 .OOi 



.41 

 . 10 

 . 01 



. 05| 

 .07) 



.07 

 .071 

 . OOi 



.G2 



.08* 

 .07:; 

 .07} 

 . 07 

 .061 



.09$ 

 .24 



. 28$ 

 . 32J 



.34$ 

 . 18 

 VI 



xir, 13 



III, 13 

 16 

 1,5 

 61 

 8 

 16 



278 



300 



274 



261 



. 41 



. 414 



. 41 



. 42 



. 09$ 



• 09 5 



. 03$ 



. 10 



. 26. 1 



. 26$ 



.261 



. 2(1$ 



. 09" 



.08| 



.09 



.09 



.10 



. 10 



.10$ 



.10* 



.09£ 



. QM 



.09 



:ooj 



. 104 



. 10i 



.10$ 



• 06i 



. CCi 



• oo| 



!oo$ 



.41' 



.41 



.39$ 



.44 



. 104 



. 19 



. 11 



.04 



.03$ 



.032 



.033 





.07 



. 06$ 



.06 





.07 





.08 







.08 









.08 



.07 







.02 



.60^ 



.62$ 



.62« 



.041 



.05 



• 04| 



.04] 



.m 



.08$ 



.081 



,m 



.01! 



.081 



.07J 



. 08* 



.08| 



.08 



.07$ 



.08$ 



.Obi 



.08 



.07$ 



.081 



.67 







.06$ 







. 10 



.09$ 



. 10 



.095 



.244 



.24$ 











.28 



.28 



.28 



.29$ 



.34 



.334 



.31$ 



.34 



. 84g 



.36 



.35$ 



.36* 



.20" 



.21$ 



.19$ 



.20" 



VI 



VI 



VI 



VI 



XII, 14 



XII, 14 



XII, 13 



XII, 14 



III, 13 



111,14 



III, 13 



III, 13 



15 



16 



15 



16 



1.5 



1,5 



1,5 



1,5 



62 



60 



60 



60 



8 



8 



8 



8 



16 



16 



16 



16 



264 



.42 

 .09$ 



.26$ 



.09 



.10 



.094 



.10$ 



.06$ 



.41 

 .10$ 

 .04* 

 . 05* 

 .074 



.07 

 .07 



.62 



• oij 



.08 



.07$ 



.07$ 



.07$ 



.06 



. 10 

 .24$ 



.28 

 .304 



.35 

 .19 

 VI 

 XII, 14 

 III, 13 

 16 

 1,5 

 61 

 8 

 16 



Washington, D. C, August it, 1878. 



