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Subfamily LIOSTOMINjE Gill. 

 Gen ns LIOSTOMUS Lac. 



LlOSTOMUS XANTHURUS LaC. 



Leiostomus xanthurus Lac, iv. 439, pi. 10, f . 1 ; C. et V., (Gthr., in Syn. pt.) 

 Homoprion xanthurus Holb., 170, (syn. et sp. ch. ; nee desc. et fie;.;) nee 

 pi. 24, f. 2.* 



D. XL 1, 3234. A.II . 13. 



Color uniform. 



Hab. South Carolina to New York. 



Liostomus obliquus Dekay ex Mit. 

 Mugil obliquus il/j'cL, Trans. N. Y., i. 405. 

 Scisena multifasciata Les., Journ. Ac. N. S. Pa., ii. 225. 

 Leiostomu3 humeralis C. and V., v. 141, pi. 110. 



obliquus Dekay, 69, pi. 60, f. 195 ; Holb., 164, pi. 24, f. 2, (nee f. 1.) 

 D. X. I. 30. A. II. 13. 

 Obliquely multifasciate ; humeral spot. 

 Hab. Eastern Coast northwards to Massachusetts. 



Subfamily LARIMIN.E Gill. 



Genus LARIMUS Cuv. et Val. 



Larimus fasciatus Holbrook. 

 Larimus fasciatus Holb., 153, pi. 22, fig. 1. 



Hab South Carolina, in salt water, (not fresh.) 



Subfamily OTOLITH1NJE Gill. 



Genus CYNOSCION Gill. 

 Cestreus Gronov., nee Cuv. et Val. 



I. Body slender, spotted above as well as on the fins C. carolinensis. 



II. Body slender, with faint, oblique straight on back 



* Belly white C. regalis 



** Belly yellow C. thalassinus. 



III. Body robust, immaculate C. nothus. 



1. Cynoscion carolinensis Gill ex C. V. 

 Otolithus carolinensis C. V., ix., 475. 

 Cestreus carolinensis Gronov., ed. Gray, 49. 

 Hab. Northwards to New York. 



2. Cynoscion regalis Gill ex Bl. 

 Johnius regalis Block, Schu., 75. 



Roccus comes Mitch.. Rep. 

 Labrus squeteagne, Mitch., Trans. N. Y., t. 396. 

 Otolithus regalis C. V., v. 67. 

 Hab. Northwards to Maine. 



3. Cynoscion thalassinus Gill ex Holb. 

 Otolithus thalassinus Holb., 132, pi. 18, p. 2. 



Hab. South Carolina. 



4. Cynoscion nothus Gill ex Holb. 



Otolithus nothus Holb., 134, pi. 19, f. 1. 

 Hab. South Carolina. 



*The pi. 24, f. 2, referred to for this species by Holbrook, who has thus led Guenther into 

 error, is the L. obliquus ; the fig. meant to be referred to represents Bairdiella pallida. 



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