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6. Labrax pallidus 



Morone pallida, Mitchill, Report, p. 18. 



Bodianus pallidus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. ^- Phil. Soc. i. p. 420. 



Labrax pallidus, Dekay, Netc York Fauna, p. 11. pi. 1. f. 2. 



D.9|f,. A.f 



The height of the body is 3i in the total length ; the edges of the 

 praeoperculum nearly equally and finely denticulated. Light bluish 

 above, paler beneath. 



Eastern shores of the United States, 



a. Adult. America. 



Labrax multilineatus. 



Ctw. <^- Vat. iii. p. 488 ; ? Kirtland in Bost. Journ. v. p. 21. pi. 7. f. 1 

 (not good). 



D-9|ri^. A.l. 



Total length equal to 3^ the height of the body ; 50 transverse 

 rows of scales. Sixteen to nineteen black longitudinal bands. 

 River Wabash. 



8. Labrax notatus. 

 Labrax notatus (Smith), Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer., F\shcs, p. 8. 



D.9|l. A.I. 



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

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

 below the lateral line, very regularly interrupted and arranged. 



Coast of Canada. 



5. LATES. 



Lates, Cuv. Reffne Anim. ; Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 88. 



Seveii branchiostegals ; pseudobranchiae absent. All the teeth 

 villiform, without canines; teeth on the palatine bones, tongue 

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

 with three spines. Operculum spiniferous ; praeoperculum with 

 strong spines at the angle and at the lower limb ; praeorbital strongly 

 serrated. Scales moderate. 



Nile. Mouths of the large East Indian rivers. 



1. Lates niloticus. 



Aarflj, Athen. p. 311. 



Pexca nilotica, Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1312 ; Bl. Srhn. p. 87. 



Centropomua niloticus, Lacfp. iv. p. 278. 



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