THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 313 
This account from the only example I have seen. It is evi- 
dently a rare straggler to our coasts by means of the Gulf Stream. 
Priacanthus alius Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1870, 
port: 
Family LOBOTID. 
Thesliapie Lails. 
Body oblong, compressed, equally developed above and below. 
Snout short. Eye anterior. Palate edentulous. Vertebre 24, 
12 abdominal and 12 caudal, fifth to eleventh with short but 
gradually lengthening parapophyses projecting sideways and 
behind downward, and twelfth with elongated parapophyses 
elongated converging at their extremities and fitting into a 
groove of first hzemal spine, costiferous pits excavated obliquely 
in developed parapophyses and gradually ascending forward on 
vertebrze and finally on neurapophyses. Skull with frontal por- 
tion broad, expanded forward and outward, and entering into 
posterior borders of orbits which are advanced far forward. 
Postfrontals elongated forward and underlying frontals. Eth- 
moid short, decurved, and expanded sideways. No vomerine and 
palatine teeth. Fore part of head very short. Preopercle strongly 
serrate. Branchiostegals 6. Air-vessel present. Pyloric cceca 3. 
Dorsal fin continuous with XII spines which may be depressed in 
a shallow grove. Soft rays of dorsal and anal elevated. Anal 
spines graduated. Bases of soft dorsal and anal thickened and 
scaly. Caudal rounded. 
A single species, a large fish closely related to the Serranide. 
Genus Losores Cuvier. 
The Triple Tails. 
Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). 
PLATE 53. 
Yeple Tailed Perch! Triple Tail. Black Perch. Black Grunt. 
Head about 3%; depth about 2%; D. XI, I, 17, according to 
figure, 27 according to description; A. III, 11, according to figure 
