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17. Epinephelus morio (Cuvier) Gill. Bed Groupei-. 



Common in deep water; taken with hook and line on the snapper 

 banks. 



18. Epinephelus stomias (Goode & Bean) Jordan. Gag. 



With the preceding, but rather less common. Grows to a much larger 

 size than U. morio. From Cedar Keys southward the name " Gag," is 

 universal for this species, the name "Black Grouper" being given toi?. 

 brunneus (Poey). 



19. Calamus arctifrons Goode & Bean. 



One young specimen taken in the seine. 



In life this specimen was silvery, bluish or iridescent above, the cen- 

 ters of many of tlie scales pearly, especially above and between the 

 spots. A row of about six rather faint salmon-olive spots along lateral 

 line. Above these, below base of dorsal, a row of faint large diffuse 

 blotches of the same color, and below the first series a series of faint 

 smutty tinges, making the whole form a series of obscure and broken 

 cross-bars. Preorbital pale salmon color with a few faint vermicular 

 streaks. Alight blue streak along lower side of eye and extending ob- 

 liquely forward. Interorbital space yellowish, preceded by bluish lines. 

 Both dorsals and anal marked with small si)Ots of dusky salmon color; 

 similar spots forming undulating cross-bars on caudal. Ventrals bluish- 

 white, faintly barred. Pectorals pale. 



20. Lutjanus caballerote (Blocli &Scliueider) Pooy. Gray Snapper; Lawyer; Man- 



grove Snapper. 



Common. The young about the shores are called gray snapper or Law- 

 yer, and have been wrongly identified by authors with Lutjanus caxis, 

 a species not known from farther north than Key West. 



21. Lutjanus campechianus Poey. lied Snapper {Lutjanus blackfordi Goode & Bean). 



22. Pomadasys chrysopterus (L. ) Goode &. Beau* MSS. I'igjish. {L^riatipoma ful- 



voviaculatum and P. fasciatum, C. & V.) 



Common, taken in the seine. 



23. Hasniulon pluniieri (La O^pede). Grunt. 

 Not very common. 



24. Diplodus probatocephalus (Walbaum) Jordan & Gilbert. Sheep's-head. 

 Abundant; one of the most valued of the "bottom-fish," i. e., fish 



taken in the seine. 



25. Diplodus holbrooki (Bean) Jordan & Gilbert. Sailors^ Choice. 



Color in life, silvery, slightly bluish above ; top of head and the 

 preorbital tinged with yellowish; a faint orange blotch under junction 

 of spinous and soft raj's of dorsal ; a deep orange blotch on and under 



*We are informed by Dr. Beau that the LinniEan type oi Perca chrysoptera examined 

 by him in Loudon belongs to Pomadasys fulvomaculatus. 



