164 LEIOSTOMUS OBLIQUUS. 



GENUS LEIOSTOMUS. — irtce^^e^e. 



Characters. Snout convex, arched; pre-opercle smooth, or without serra- 

 tures ; inter-maxillary teeth minute ; posterior pharyngeal teeth paved ; two 

 dorsal fins ; anal spines minute ; scales ciliated ; branchial rays seven. 



Remarks. This genus was established by Lacepede to receive at first a single 

 species found by Bosc in Carolina, and he applied to it the name Leiostomus,* 

 from an erroneous opinion that the mouth was without teeth. Cuvier adopted the 

 genus, though he adds to it three new characters : " minute denticulations at the 

 pre-opercle ; posterior pharj-ngeals paved ; and an air-bladder, with slender cornua, 

 as in Otolithus." 



LEIOSTOMUS OBLIQUUS. — Mitchill 



Plate XXIV. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Body above lightest silver-grey, with a golden tint; 

 fourteen or more dusky bars descend obliquely on the sides from the margin of 

 the back, and disappear below the lateral line ; a sub-oval black spot behind the 

 opercle, above the pectoral fin; sides and belly yellow. D. 10-1-30. P. 18. 

 V. 1-5. A. 2-12. C. 18. 



SrNONYMES. Mugil obliquus, Mitch., Report in part, p. 16. 



Labrus obliquus, Milch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 405. 

 Sciaena multifasciata, Lesueur, Mem. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. ii. p. 225. 

 Leiostomus humeralis, Cuv. et Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., tom. v. p. 141, pi. 116. 

 Leiostomus obliquus, DeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 69, pi. 60, fig. 195. 

 Leiostomus obliquus, Slorer, Synops., p. 69. 

 Chub, Vulgo. 



• From Xfiof, smooth, and (rrofia, mouth. 



