734 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



EPINEPHBLIS, Bloch. 



B. morio, Cuv. {erythrogaster.) Red Grouper. 



Brownish, marked with ash ; salmon below ; fins margined 

 with blue; scales of lateral line triangular, cycloid ; elsewhere 

 small and ctenoid ; medium crest of cranium developed ; opercle 

 with two spines. Dorsal rays, XI, 17; anal rays, III, 9; 

 lateral- line scales, 106. Southern. 



" Occasionally met with along the coast. • The writer has seen 

 a specimen taken at Beesley's Point." — [C. C. A.] 



DULES. Cuv. 



D. auriga, Cuv. &. Val. Coachman. Charioteer. 



This genus is distinguished by having third dorsal spine 

 filamentous. Doubtful if ever taken on our coast. — J. & G. 



"A specimen of this fish is preserved in the museum of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences .of Philadelphia, labeled ' Cape 

 May, N. J.' The writer has seen no other specimen from State 

 limits."— [C. C. A.] 



Family SPARIDiE. 



Scales ctenoid, sometimes nearly cycloid (" sparoid ") ; head large ; 

 premaxillaries protractile ; maxillary without supplemental bone, and 

 slipping under preorbital for its whole length ; pseudobranchs well 

 developed. 



LUTJANUS, Bl. & Schn. 



(Mesoprion. Diacope, &c.) 



L. caxis, Bl. & Schn. [grlscus, Neomgsnis emarginatus.) Yelting. Gray- 

 Snapper. 

 Head long ; mouth large ; jaws with bands of villiform teeth, 

 with well-developed canines in upper jaw, an anchor-shaped 

 patch of teeth on vomer and one patch on tongue ; caudal tin 

 lunate ; color greenish olive, each scale with a brown spot ; cheeks 

 with six rows of scales. Dorsal rays, X, 14; anal rays. III, 

 8 ; lateral-line scales, 48. 



