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slightly less than 2 in head; soft dorsal apparently not scaly, but so 
mutilated that we cannot be certain of this. 
Scales very weakly ctenoid; lateral line somewhat wavy anteriorly, 
becoming straight under the fourth or fifth dorsal ray. 
Color, brownish above, lighter below; middle of sides with many dark 
dots; a dark blotch on upper corners of operele and cheek; axil and 
inner margin of pectoral, black; spinous dorsal, black; soft dorsal and 
caudal, dusky; the rest of the fins pale. 
The specimen from Pass Christian has no scales on dorsal or anal at 
present, but the marks showing their former presence on the basal parts 
of the fin are evident. Gill-rakers, X+8, the longest % eye; snout 33 
in head; D. X—I, 25; A. I, 10. 
In the specimen from Hasnpton Roads the gill-rakers are X+9; snout 
34 in head; D.X—I, 25. The coloration is essentially as in regalis, but 
in ali these specimens it is more silvery, the dark markings less dis- 
tinct. 
13. CESTREUS RETICULATUS. 
Otolithus reticulatus Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 149 (San José de Gua- 
temala, Chiapam). Giinther, Fishes Central America, 387, 388, and 430, 1869 
(San José, Chiapam). 
Cynoscion reticulatum Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1881, 232 (Acapulco, 
Mexico). Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 319 (Mazatlan; Pan- 
ama). 
Habitat.—Pacific coast of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama. 
This is acommon food-fish of the west coast of Mexico. It consid- 
erably resembles Cestreus nebulosus, and is similar in size, habits, and 
value to the latter. ' 
14. CESTREUS NEBULOSUS. 
(THE SPOTTED WEAK-FISH, OR SPOTTED “SEA TROUT.”) 
[Plate II.] 
Labrus squeteague var. maculatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc., 396, 1815 (New 
York) (not Labrus maculatus Bloch). 
Cynoscion maculatum Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1882, 285 (Pensacola, 
Galveston). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.. 1882, 607 (Charleston). 
Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North Am., 581, 1888. Bean, Internat. Fishery 
Exhib. Berlin, 55, 1883 (Pensacola, Florida), Jordan & Swain, Proc. U.&. 
Nat. Mus., 1884, 233 (Cedar Key, Florida). Goode, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 362, 
plate 120, 1884 (Norfolk, Va.). 
Otolithus nebulosus Cuy. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 79, 1830 (locality unknown), 
Jordan, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1886, 540 (note on type of Cuvier & Valenci- 
ennes). 
Ololithus carolinensis Cuy. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 475, 1833 (South Carolina). 
DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 72, 1842 (New York). Storer, Syn. Fish, 
North Am., 318, 1846 (copied). Holbrook, ‘Ichthyol. S. Carolina, 133, pl. 19, 
fig.2” (8. Carolina). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 306, 1860 (New York, 
Lake Pontchartrain). 
Cestreus carolinensis Gronow, Cat. Fish., ed. Gray, 49, 1854 (Carolina), 
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