13. Chænobryttus viridis (C. & V.) Jor.

14. Lepomis pallidus (Mitch.) Gill & Jor.

The recent rejection of the name "pallidus" for this species by my friend Professor Goode (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 139) is due to his having overlooked the fact that Mitchell has a Labrus pallidus as well as a Bodianus pallidus in his Memoir on the Fishes of New York. The latter, as Professor Goode observes, is Bairdiella argyroleuca; the former is Lepomis pallidus.

15. Lepomis punctatus (Cuv. & Val.) Jor.

Several fine specimens.

(Lepomis apiatus Cope.)

16. Enneacanthus obesus (Baird) Gill.

(Bryttus fasciatus Holbrook = Bryttus obesus Baird?).

"Enneacanthus milnerianus Cope" is included in Goode's list (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, 114) of the fishes of Florida. This species appears in my list of valid species of Centrarchidæ in Bulletin X of the National Museum. It is a nominal species, and came into the lists in this way: While my paper in Bulletin X was passing through the press, Professor Cope kindly sent me the proof-sheets of a paper on the fishes of the Saint John's, which has since appeared in the Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. In this paper a new species with the above name was described. This species, however, Professor Cope saw fit to suppress in the publication of the paper, he having identified it with Enneacanthus fasciatus.

MUGILIDE.

17. Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz. White Mullet.

Our other common species of Mugil, the striped mullet, Mugil plumieri and Mugil lineatus of authors, is doubtless the species for which the name of Mugil albula L. should be retained.

SCOMBERESOCIDE.

18. Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Ranz.

CYPRINODONTIDE.

19. Jordanella floridæ Goode & Bean.

Many specimens of this interesting species were obtained by Dr. Henshall. The females differ from the males chiefly in the lower vertical fins.

20. Zygonectes rubrifrons Jordan.

Numerous specimens.

21. Zygonectes henshalli Jordan.

Still more abundant. This species and the preceding are very closely related, and are both nearly intermediate between Zygonectes and Fundulus. The current genera related to Fundulus are separated by characters of very dubious value.

22. Fundulus sp.

A small specimen with pale cross-bars; not suitable for identification.

23. Gambusia patruelis B. & G.

Two specimens, agreeing with the descriptions of Gambusia holbrooki of Girard and Günther, and with Girard's figure of Gambusia patruelis, The two species are probably identical. The black bars on the caudal and the oblique suborbital blotch are characteristic color-marks.

A comparison of these Florida specimens with a series of eels from Venice renders it evident that our American eel is not identical with Anguilla vulgaris of Europe, as I with others have supposed.

In our species the beginning of the dorsal is notably more posterior than in the European one. In Venetian specimens the distance from the snout to the base of the dorsal is contained 33 times in the total length of the fish. In Florida specimens the same distance is contained barely 3 times in the total length.

The same difference is expressed differently but correctly by Dr. Günther (Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., VIII, 24). He ascribes to A. vulgaris the character of

"The length of the head is nearly equal to the distance between the commencements of the dorsal and anal fins."

And to A. bostoniensis (rostrata)

"The length of the head is conspicuously more than the distance between the commencements of the dorsal and anal fins."

The band of vomerine teeth also appears to extend farther back in A. vulgaris than in A. rostrata.

NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SAINT JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA, OBTAINED BY MR. A. H. CURTISS.

By DAVID S. JORDAN.

A small collection of fishes from Saint John's River was sent to Prof. H. E. Copeland and myself some years ago by Mr. A. H. Curtiss. As this collection contains some specimens of interest, a list is here given:

1. Siphonostoma sp. (Syngnathus Auct.).

Two specimens of a variety or species of this genus, apparently undescribed, are in this collection. I have specimens of three types, subspecies, or species of Siphonostoma from our Atlantic coast, which may be thus compared:

These characters are all evidently subject to much variation. If these are true species, they differ from each other little more than the two sexes of the same form differ.

It seems to me that the specific names fuscus, fasciatus, viridescens, and peckianus are all based on individuals like those above noted from Wood's Hole.

2. Aphoristia plagiusa (L.) Jor. & Gill. ·

3. Chloroscombrus chrysurus (L.) Gill.

4. Archosargus probatocephalus (Walb.) Gill. 5. Lagodon rhomboides (L.) Holbr.

6. Micropterus pallidus (Raf.) Gill & Jor.

7. Epinephelus sp. (One very young specimen.)

8. Orthopristis fulvomaculatum (Mitch.) Gill.

9. Gobiosoma alepidotum (Lac.) Grd.

10. Chirostoma sp.

11. Hemirhamphus unifasciatus Ranz.

12. Fundulus sp.

13. Mollienesia latipinna Le Sueur.

1.4. Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe) Goode.

15. Megalops thrissoides (Bloch) Günther (Scales).

16. Lepidosteus osseus (L.) Ag. (Scales).

NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SAN DIEGO, CA L

IFORNIA.

By DAVID S. JORDAN and CHARLES H. GILBERT.

The writers have spent the greater part of the month of January, 1880, in the collection and study of fishes at San Diego, Cal., in the interests of the United States Fish Commission. As some of the species obtained are new to science, and others new to the United States fauna, it is thought advisable to present an annotated list in advance of the publication of a more extended report.

Very abundant. There seems to us no doubt of the correctness of Lockington's identification of the "Uropsetta californica" with this species. The caudal fin in the adult is somewhat double concave; in the young the middle rays are more produced. This species is both dextral and sinistral. Out of twenty-six examples examined in reference to this point fifteen were found to be sinistral and eleven dextral.

4. Citharichthys sordidus (Girard) Günther.

Not common; one specimen seen.

5. Bypsopsetta guttulata (Girard) Gill. Common.

6. Aphoristia atricauda sp. nov.

SOLEIDE.

Body oblong-lanceolate, anteriorly somewhat blunt, regularly narrowed behind and ending in a point, the snout rather abruptly truncate, eyes and color on the left side. Eyes very small, nearly even behind, the upper eye the larger and extending farthest forward. A single nostril in front of the interorbital space and apparently a single smaller one below it. Mouth moderate, extending to opposite the eye, somewhat

turned toward the eyed side; lips large, not fringed, the upper with a small blackish papilla in advance of lower eye. This is apparently normal, but it may be a detached piece of skin, hardened by the alcohol. Upper jaw scarcely produced, not forming a hook. Teeth small, on the blind side only, the edge of the jaw on the eyed side forming a smooth ridge.

Gill-openings narrow, not extending up to the level of the mouth. Scales very small, ctenoid, pretty regular over the body, much smaller on the head, the rows of scales rendered very distinct by black dots, the stripes converging towards the snout. Scales on the two sides of the body similar. No lateral line on either side. About 105 scales (100 to 110) in a longitudinal series from the head to the tail; 45 to 50 in a cross-series.

Dorsal fin beginning on the head, continuous with the anal around the tail. Ventral fin of the colored side only present, nearly on the ridge of the abdomen, and separated from the anal by an interval half longer than the cleft of the mouth. Rays of the middle parts of the dorsal and anal

fins with a fleshy border at base on the blind side.

Dorsal rays about 100; anal rays 80; no distinct caudal fin.

Coloration brownish olive, with vertical dark half-bars, irregular in size and position, some of them coming down from the back and others up from the belly, these posteriorly nearly meeting, but anteriorly alternating. Streaks of dark points along the rows of scales, these forming very distinct longitudinal streaks. Posterior part of dorsal and anal broadly edged with black. Right side plain white.

In

This species is known to us from a single specimen taken by a Chinese fisherman, Ah Sam, in the Bay of San Diego. This specimen is now in the collection of the United States National Museum, No. form and number of scales, fin-rays, etc., it resembles Aphoristia ornata from the West Indies, but the ventral fin is remote from the anal.