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anal rays 111,15; caudal rounded; ventrals much shorter than pectorals. Color: silvery white, 

 with large irregular dark spots and blotches, {regvlus, little king.) 



A 1-inch specimen of this species, heretofore known only from the coast of 

 Cuba, was obtained by the steamer Fish-Hawk off Beaufort in the summer of 

 1902; it was doubtless a mere straggler, wafted there by the Gulf Stream. The 

 maximum length is about 3.5 inches. 



Genus PEPRILUS Cuvier. Harvest-fishes. 



Body much compressed, orbicular; head short, anterior profile obtuse; cau- 

 dal peduncle slender, without keel; mouth terminal, oblique, jaws about equal; 

 lateral line arched, continuous; dorsal fin long, with anterior rays much elongated, 

 anal fin similar; caudal fin large and strongly forked; pectorals long and narrow; 

 ventrals absent, represented by a single sharp spine attached to pubic bone. 

 One species on the Atlantic coast of the United States. 



192. PEPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS (Linnaeus). 



"Star"; "Star-fish"; Harvest-fish. 



fStromateus paru Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. x, 248, 1758; Jamaica. 

 ChcEtodon alepidotus Linnajus, Systema Naturae, ed. xii, 460, 1706; Charleston. 

 Rhombus paru, Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 965; 1898, 2849; pi. cl, fig. 404. 

 Stromateus alepidotus, Kendall & Smith, 1894, 21; Hatteras Inlet 



Fig. 95. Harvest-fish; Star-fish. Peprilus alepidotus. 



Diagnosis. — Depth .66 to .75 length; caudal peduncle very short and narrow, its depth 

 equal to distance from pupil to end of snout; head small, .25 to .28 length; mouth very suialL 



