PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 379 

 Genus AECHOSAEGUS GiU. 



65. Archosargus probatocephalus (Walb.) Gill. — Sheepshead. 



Abundant ; we saw but few specimens, however, the proper Sheeps- 

 head season being passed. 



Genus SAEGUS Cuvier. 



66. Sargus holbrooki Bean. — Sjyot-tailed Pin-fish. 



Extremely abundant everywhere along the Beaufort shore. This 

 species was first described by Dr. Bean during the past year. That so 

 strongly marked and so abundant a species should have so long escaped 

 notice is very remarkable. Dr. Yarrow does not seem to have noticed 

 it and Dr. Coues obtained but one specimen, the generic characters of 

 which seem to have escaped Professor Putnam's notice, an he sx)eak8 

 of it as "an individual resembling S. argyropsj'^ but differing in color. 

 This species has broad incisors and wants the recumbent dorsal spine. 

 Its color is bright silvery, with a large black blotch on the upper part, 

 of the caudal peduncle, which is very conspicuous while the fish is in 

 the water. It reaches but a small size, and is not at Beaufort used a.s 

 food. The fishermen call it Pin-fish, and as such it is beneath their 

 notice. Most of the fishermen, indeed, did not distinguish it from La- 

 godmi rhomhoides. 



Genus STENOTOMUS Gdl. 



67. Stenotomus argyrops (L.) Gill. 



Not very common ; hardly noticed by the fishermen. 



PRISTIPOMATID^. 

 Genus H^MULUM Cuvier. 



68. ? Haemulum arcuatum C. & V. 



Kot seen by us; given in Dr. Yarrow's Hst, but evidently confused 

 with the next species, so that its occurrence at Beaufort is questionable. 

 The proper orthography of the generic name [atij-a^ blood; ohXov^ gums) 

 is Hcemulum^ not Hcemylum^ nor Hcemtilon. 



Genus OETHOPRISTIS Girard. 



69. Orthopristis fulvomaculatus (Mitcli.) Gill. — Hog-fiah. 

 Extremely common everywhere in the harbor. 



SERRANID^. 



Genus EPINEPHELUS Bloch. 



70. Epinephelus morio (Cuv.) Gill. 



One specimen noted by Dr. Yarrow. 



