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rather long, their tips reaching beyond ventrals, their leugth li in head; 

 ventrals 1' in head. Ilead 3 iu length; depth about 4. D. X-I, 25; A. 

 I, 7; Lat. 1. 05. South Atlantic coast of United States. 



(Perca alburnus Linn. Syst. Nat. : UnibriiKt ulburnun Giiuther, ii,275: Umbrina albur- 

 niix Hull). Ifh. S. C. 18JO, 137: I'mbrina yhahvtia Girurd, Mex. Bound. Surv. Iclith. 

 1S59, 13.) 



91O. JI. lindcilatus (Grd.) Gill. Bagara; "Sucker". 



Sooty grayish, with bright reflections, the back, all the fins, and under 

 side of the head dusky with dark points; undulating lines alongsides run- 

 ning upward and backward ; back often with very faint dark cross-bars. 

 Body elongate, the buck not elevated. Head bluntish. Eye small, 2i 

 in snout, 7 iu head, the maxillary scarcely extending to its front. Ante- 

 rior teeth of upper jaw strong. First dorsal high, its longest spine 

 reaching past frout of second dorsal ; anal small, nearly under the 

 middle of second dorsal, li iu head ; pectoral fins reaching past tips 

 of ventrals nearly to vent, their length 1^ in head. Head 4 ; depth 4. 

 J). X-I, 20; A. I, 8; Lat. 1. GO. L. 18 inches. Pacific coast, from Pan- 

 ama north to Point Concepciou; abundant. 



nndiilata Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 154, 148, and iu U. S. Par. 

 R. K. Surv. Fish. 101 (tin; type, a very y<mn- specimen, exauiiiied by us): Umbrina 

 cloiiyata Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1804, 148.) 



3O2. L.ARIMUS Cuvicr & Valenciennes. 



(Cnvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 145, 1830: type Larimn* brericeps C. & V.) 

 Body oblong, compressed; snout very short and blunt; mouth very 

 oblique, large, the lower jaw projecting ; teeth small, in villiform bands ; 

 no barbels; preopercle finely serrated; pseudobranchia 1 i>resent; air- 

 l>ladder siui])le; vertebra? as usual; lower pharyngeals distinct, with 

 pointed teeth; dorsal tins connected, the first moderate, the second long; 

 anal lin very small, placed well back, provided with 2 spines; caudal 

 lin convex. (An ancient name of some fish, from /.n('>-, pleasant, dainty.) 



1>I I. L. fascgafiBM Holhrook. 



Silvery gray, clouded above; s'des marked with about 7 nearly ver- 

 tical dusky bars, running from the back to below the lateral line. JJody 

 ohiong, coiiijn'essed. vent nil outline nearly straight, dorsal outline consid- 

 erall\ arched; snout very short, much less than the diameter of the 

 large eye; mouth large, very oblique, maxillary nearly reaching pos- 

 terior margin of orbit; tip of mandible on level of lower part of pupil; 



