Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1361 



tudinal bands ; a black shoulder spot. (Poey.) Cuba; known only from 

 the description of Poey. Its distinctive characters need verification, it 

 being possibly an abnormal specimen of Archosargua unimaculatus. {ires, 

 three; dens, tooth.) 



Sargus fridens, Poey, Ennumei-atio, 57, 1875, Cuba. 



Archosargvs tridens, Eigenmann & Huuhes, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, 70; Jordan & 

 FeslER, I. c, 521, 1893. 



Subgenus ARCHOSARGUS. 



173G. ARCHOSAKGUS PROBATOCEPHALUS (Walbauiu). 



(Sheepshead; Sargo Raiado.) 



Head 3 to 3^; depth 2 to 2^; eye placed high, 4 in head, 11 in interor- 

 bital, li in suborbital. D. XII, 10 or 12; A. Ill, 10 or 11; scales 8-48-15; 

 mouth large, nearly horizontal; maxillary 2| in head; incisors f, entire 

 or slightly emarginate, serrate in the young, broad, their breadth about 

 i their length; molars in 3 series above, in 2 below; those of the inner 

 series larger, those behind the incisors very small, gill rakers about 

 3-|-6. Highest dorsal spine IJ in head; dorsal and anal spines notably 

 heteracanthous. Caudal not deeply forked; second anal spine about 2 in 

 head, much longer than the third; ventrals not nearly reaching vent; 

 pectorals reaching past beginning of anal, slightly longer than head. 

 Occipital crest broad, its honeycomb structure plainly exposed at its 

 upper margin. Color grayish, with about 7 broad black cross l)ands 

 crossing the body, these most distinct in young; no distinct shoulder 

 spot; spines silvery. Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States; Cape 

 Cod to Florida Keys and Texas ; one of the most common and most valu- 

 able of the food-fishes of our Atlantic coast, its flesh being especially 

 excellent in flavor. {Ttpofiavov, sheep; TiEq>aXi), head.) 



Sparus (Sheepshead), Schopf, Schrlften der Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, vni, 152, 1788, 

 New York. 



Spams probatocephalus, Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 295, 1792, New York; based on Schopf. 



Spams ovieephahts, Block & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 280, 1801, New York ; based on 

 Schopf. 



Sargus ovis, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc.N. T., I, 1814, 392, pi. 2, fig. 5, New Yo'rk ; 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 58, 1830; Gi'NTHER, Cat., i, 447, 1859. 



Archosargvs j^robatncephalus, GiLL, Cat. Fish. East Coast North America, 27, 1873; Jor- 

 dan & Fesleb, I. c, 522, 1893. 



Diplodus probatocephalus, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 278; Jordan 

 &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 558, 1883. 



1737. ARCHOSARGUS ARIES (Cvivier & Valenciennes). 



Head 3^ ; depth 2^. D. XII, 11 ; A. Ill, 10 ; scales 7-44-14. Incisors nar- 

 rower than in A. proiatocephalus, their breadth 2 J in their length. Gray- 

 ish with about 6 dark crossbars. Otherwise as in J. jyrohatocephalus. 

 Honduras to Brazil, rather rare; known from Rio Janeiro, Maracaibo, and 

 Belize; only the original type seen by us. It would appear to be closely 

 allied to A. prohatoeephalus, distinguishable only by tlie slightly narrower 

 teeth and possibly larger scales. It is probably to ))e regarded as a geo- 



