1 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. XXXIV. 
Family ENGRAULIDS. 
ANCHOVIA BROWNII (Gmelin). 
Three specimens (largest 33 inches) from the lagoon at Tampico. 
Head 32 in length;. depth 44; eye 34 in head. D. 15; A. 21; 
seales, 40. 
ANCHOVIA MITCHILLI (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 
Hight specimens (2 to 24 inches long) from a lagoon near mouth of 
Rio Panuco. 
Head 4 1n length; depth 44; eye 3 in head; D. 14; A. 28; scales 37. 
Family DOROSOMATID i. 
DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM (Le Sueur). 
Two large specimens (10 inches long) from the market of Mexico 
City, originally from Vera Cruz; also more than a hundred young 
specimens (the largest 24 inches long) from a lagoon near Tampico. 
Family CHARACID 4K. 
ASTYANAX ARGENTATUS Baird and Girard. 
The collection contains 6 examples, the largest measuring 2 inches, 
from a lagoon near Tampico. 
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Family SILURID®. 
GALEICHTHYS GUNTHERI Regan. 
Galeichthys giintheri REGAN, Fauna Centr. Amer., 1907, p. 124. 
One specimen 1 foot long from Tampico, Gulf of Mexico. 
This species is closely related to Galeichthys milberti (felis), the 
shorter maxillary barbel (reaching opercle instead of end of head) 
and the broader occipital process being noteworthy points of distine- 
tion. The original Silurus felis of Linneus is the gaff-topsail catfish 
(Lelichthys felis), not the present species. The type, still preserved, 
has been examined by Doctor Giinther. 
ICTALURUS FURCATUS (Le Sueur). 
Three large specimens from Tampico. 
