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11. CESTREUS NOTHUS. 
(BASTARD SEA TROUT.) 
Otolithus nothus Holbrook, Ichthyol. 8. Carolina, 134, plate 19, fig. 1, 1860 (South 
Carolina). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 308, 1860 (Jamaica). 
Cynoscion nothus Goode & Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 131 (Pensacola). Jordan 
& Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1882, 607 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, 
Syn. Fish. North Am., 580, 1882. Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 212 (St. 
John’s River, Fla.). 
Habitat.—South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States. 
This species is rather rare at Charleston and elsewhere along our 
Southern coast. 
It is a very well marked species, differing in numerous respects from 
the others, regalis, thalassinus, nebulosus, found in the same waters. 
The specimens examined by us are from Charleston. 
12. CESTREUS REGALIS. 
(THE WEAK-FISH, OR SQUETEAGUE; ‘‘SEA TrouUT.”) 
[Plate I. ] 
a. Var. regalis. 
Johnius regalis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 75, 1801. Holbrook, Ichthyol. S. 
Carolina, 127, plate 18, fig. 1 (South Carolina). 
Otolilthus regalis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 67 (New York, New Orleans). 
Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. Fish., 68, 1836. Storer, Report Fishes Massa- 
chusetts, 33, 1839 (‘‘no longer found on the coast”). Storer, Hist. Fish. 
Mass., 122, plate: 9, fig. 1 (Provincetown). Ayres, Fishes of Brookhaven, 
L. I., 259, 1842. DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 71, plate 8, fig. 24, 1842 
(New York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 118, 1846 (Massachusetts), 
Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 307, 1860. 
Cynoscion regale Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 18. Uhler & Lugger, Fishes 
of Maryland, 98, 1876 (Chesapeake Bay). Goode & Bean, Fishes of Essex 
County and Massachusetts Bay, 17, 1879 (Milk Island, Cape Ann). Bean, 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1880, 90 (Norfolk, Va. ; Wood’s Holl, Mass.). Jordan 
& Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 607 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, 
Syn. Fish. North Am., 581, 1882. Goode, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 362, plate 120, 
1884 (Wood’s Holl, Mass.). 
Roccus comes Mitchill, Report in part Fishes New York, 26, 1814 (New York). 
Labrus squeteague Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York, 396, plate 2, fig. 1, 
1815 (New York). 
b. Var. thalassinus. 
Otolithus thalassinus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, 132, plate 18, fig. 2 (South Car- 
olina). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 308, 1860 (Gulf of Mexico). 
Cynoscion thalassints Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North America, 581, 1882 (copied). 
Habitat.—Atlantie and Gulf coast of the United States; var. thalas- 
sinus from Virginia to Louisiana. 
The Weak-fish is one of the most valuable food-fishes of our At- 
lantic coast. It is caught in large numbers, and its flesh is very excel- 
lent for the table. Its flesh, like that of most species of the genus, is 
very tender and easily torn, hence the common name of Weak-fish. 
