84 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 
M. undulatus. (Cov. et Vaz. Vol. 5, p. 219. Carussy, Vol. 2, pl. 3, fig. 1.) Obscure brownish 
spots on the back; no lines nor bands. Length thirteen inches. Mew Orleans, Charleston. 
According to Schepff, ascends the Chesapeake, and occasionally Delaware bay. 
GENUS HEMULON. Cuvier. 
A single dorsal emarginate fin. Seven branchial rays. An oval cavity and two small pores 
under the chin. Ventral fins scaly. Preopercle denticulated. 
THE SPECKLED RED-MOUTH. 
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HEMULON FULVO-MACULATUM. 
PLATE VII. FIG. 21.— (CABINET OF TIE LYCEUM.) 
Labrus fulvo-maculatus, Speckled Grunts. Muitcw. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 406. 
Characteristics. Small; with yellowish horizontal stripes below the lateral line, and oblique 
stripes above it. Length five inches. 
Description. Body compressed ; back rounded. Height one-third of its total length. Scales 
moderate, subquadrate, truncated in front with radiating plaits ; free portion rounded, reti- 
culate near the margin, which is minutely ciliate ; form a sheath on each side of the dorsal 
and anal fins. A scaly fold under the base of the pectorals. Eyes 0°3 in diameter. Ante- 
rior nostril largest, with a raised margin. ‘Teeth minute, conic, acute, bent at the tips, and 
disposed in cards in both jaws; the anterior series slightly longest. Minute teeth on the 
pharyngeals. ‘Tongue thin and free. 
Dorsal fin with twelve spinous and fifteen slightly branched rays ; the first slightly shortest, 
the three following gradually longer; the soft portion rather higher than the other. The 
pectoral fins long and pointed, composed of eighteen rays; the first rudimentary ; the sixth 
longest, reaching to the tenth spinous dorsal ray. Ventral fins just behind the base of the 
pectorals, and without a scaly fold. The first spine of the anal fin very short, the second 
and third longer and subequal. Caudal fin of seventeen rays, and covered with minute scales ; 
crescent-shaped ; the upper lobe longest. 
Color. I am only acquainted with this through a cabinet specimen, the identical one from 
which Mitchill drew up his description. As this was recent, I annex his account of the dis- 
position of the colors: Bluish silvery. Above the lateral line, rows of yellow speckled stripes, 
almost parallel with each other, which run obliquely towards the dorsal fin; below it, similar 
rows extended nearly in a horizontal direction from the branchial aperture to the tail. Belly 
and chin more pale and whitish than the back. Cheeks with the ochreous streaks which dis- 
