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Genus DULES Cuvier. 



In this genus the body is deep and compressed, the caudal fin is square; and 

 the branchiostegals number only 6. Three species are known, 1 South American, 

 1 West Indian, and the following. {Dules^ slave, " the fish being under the lash 

 of the long dorsal spine".) 



248. DULES SUBLIGARIUS (Cope). 



Centropristes suhligarius Cope, Proceedings Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, 1870, 120; Pensacola. 



Serranus dispilurus, Jordan, 1886, 27; Beaufort. 



Serranua subligarius, Jenkins, 1887, 89; Beaufort. 



Dules subligarius, Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 1218; Beaufort, etc. 



Diagnosis. — Depth contained 2.66 times in total length; head long, low, .4 length; mouth 

 small, maxillary extending to posterior edge of pupil; teeth small canines, not well developed; 

 eye .25 length of head; preopercle sharply serrate; gill-rakers 6 or 8, short; scales in lateral 

 series about 42, in transverse series 23; 10 series of scales on cheeks; no scales on jaws, preorb- 

 ital, and front of head; dorsal rays x,13; anal rays in,7, second spine longer and stouter than 

 third; caudal truncate. Color: olivaceous, tinged with brown, pale below; scales on sides 

 with black margin; 5 very distinct dark cross-bars posteriorly; a large cream-colored blotch 

 on side anterior to vent; a black ring around peduncle; a large black blotch on soft dorsal; 

 cheeks yellow; head brown below; a net-work of wavy blue lines on branchiostegals, lower jaw, 

 and interopercle; dorsals mottled; ventrals faintly barred; other fins grayish with blackish 

 bars, (subligarius, truss-wearing, in allusion to the light blotch on each side near vent.) 



This small fish is known from the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 and Florida, and has usualy been taken in deep water. Dr. Jenkins, in 1885, took 

 several young specimens in Beaufort Harbor in eel-grass. The Fish-Hawk 

 dredged 3 specimens 20.5 miles from the sea buoy off Beaufort Inlet in 13.5 

 fathoms on September 12, 1902 (station 7344). 



Family LOBOTIDiE. Triple-tails. 



This family, which contains only one species, a large, widely distributed 

 marine fish, is related to the sea basses (Serranidse). Body oblong, compressed; 

 dorsal fin continuous, the spinous part longer than the soft; anal spines 3, the 

 soft part opposite and similar to the soft dorsal; skull broad anteriorly, the eyes 

 placed far forward, the snout short 



Genus LOBOTES Cuvier. Triple- tails or Flashers. 



Back elevated; caudal peduncle short and deep; upper profile of head slightly 

 concave; mouth of moderate size, lips thick, upper jaw protractile, lower jaw 

 projecting; bands of conical teeth in jaws, a row of larger conical teeth in front, 

 vomer and palatines toothless; preopercle serrate; air-bladder present; pyloric 

 cceca 3; body and head covered with ctenoid scales, which extend on the fleshy 

 bases of the soft dorsal and anal fins; soft rays of the dorsal and anal elongated, 

 extending backward, and producing with the rounded caudal a three-lobed 

 effect. (Lohotes, lobed.) 



