118 POGONIAS FASCIATUS. 



made of the remarkable barbels at the chm. He placed it in his genus Labrus, 

 and gave it the specific name it still retains ; but he confounded with it two other 

 fishes of Marcgrave and of Brown, the first of which is, according to Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes, an Otolithus, and the other an Umbriua. 



POGONIAS FASCIATUS. — LacepMe. 



Plate XVI. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Body silvery, with dusky vertical bars. D. 10-1-22. 

 P. 17. V. 1-5. A. 2-7. C. 17. 



Synonymes. Pogonias fasciatus, Lacep., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. iv. p. 445. 



Labrus gruniens, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 405, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 Pogonias fasciatus, Cuv. el Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. v. p. 210, pi. 118. 

 Pogonias fasciatus, Wilson., Ency. Brit. (Ichth.), p. 176, pi. 296, fig. 13. 

 Pogonias fasciatus, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 81, pi. 14, fig. 40. 

 Pogonias fasciatus, Storer, Synops., p. 72. 

 Young Drum, Vulgo. 



Description. This fish is so similar to the one last described, in form, as well 

 as in its individual parts, that I shall only mention those points iir which they 

 difi"er most. 



Colour. The ground colour of the whole animal is silvery, more or less shaded 

 along the head and back above ; the sides are marked with several vertical dusky 

 bars, more or less distinct ; the belly is white ; the membrane of the dorsal fin is 

 semi-transparent, and is studded with minute points of dusky blue ; the spines are 

 white, with fewer dusky spots ; the soft portion is less transparent than the spi- 

 nous, and has a bluish appearance, from the number of minute bluish-black dots, 

 most so along its middle, as if marked with an indistinct band. The pectoral is 

 semi-transparent, dusky on the anterior part of its upper face, and at its root ; the 



