5. LATKS. 67 



0. Labrax pallidus. 



Morone pallida, Mitchill, Report, p. IS. 



Bodianus pallidus, Mitchill, Tram. Lit. S,- Phil. Soc. i. p. 420. 



Labrax pallidiLS, Dckai/, Nciv York Fauna, p. 11. pi. 1. f. 2. 



The heif^lit of the body is 3^ in the total length ; the edges of the 

 prfEoperciilum nearly equally and finely denticulated. Light bluish 

 above, paler beneath. 



Eastern shores of the United States. 



a. Adult. Amorifa. 



7. Labrax multilineatus. 



C'uv. ^- Val. iii. p. 488; ? Kirtland in Bost. Jourii. v. p. 21. pi. 7. f. 1 

 (not good). 



Total length equal to 31 the height of the body ; 50 transverse 

 rows of scales. Sixteen to nineteen black longitudinal bands. 

 River Wabash. 



8. Labrax notatus. 



Labrax notatus (^Smith), Rirhardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer., Fishes, p. 8. 

 D.9|l. A.I. 



Total length equal to four times the height of the body ; lateral 

 line \vith 58 scales. Marked with rows of spots, five above and five 

 below the lateral line, veiy regularly internipted and arranged. 



Coast of Canada. 



5. LATES. 



Lates, Cur. Rk/ne Anim. ; Cuv. ^~ Val. ii. p. 88. 



Seven branchiostegals ; pseudobranchiae absent. AU the teeth 

 viUiform, wathout canines ; teeth on the palatine bones, tongue 

 smooth. Two dorsals ; the first ■with seven or eight, the anal fin 

 with tliree spines. Operculum spiniferous ; prseoperculum with 

 strong spines at the angle and at the lower Umb ; prseorbital strongly 

 seiTated. Scales moderate. 



Nile. Mouths of the large East Indian rivers. 



1 . Lates niloticus. 



AoToj, Afhen. p. .311. 



Perca nilotica, Gmel. iii/.sf. Nat. 1812; Bl. Schti. p. 87. 



Centropomu.s niloticus, Larfp. iv. p. 278. 



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