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1. Genus LOBOTES Cuvier. 

 Lohotes Cuvier, Rfegne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, 1829, p. 177 (erate=surinamensis). 



Body oblong, compressed and elevated, covered with moderate- 

 sized, weakly ctenoid scales ; profile of head concave, the snout prom- 

 inent; mouth moderate, oblique, with thick lips; upper jaw very 

 protractile, the lower the longer; maxillary without supplemental 

 bone; jaws with narrow bands of villiform teeth, in front of which 

 is a row of larger conical teeth directed backward; no teeth on vomer 

 or palatines; preorbital narrower than eye; preopercle strongly ser- 

 rate, the serrae becoming smaller with age. Branchiostegals 6. Dor- 

 sal fin continuous, with 12 spines which may be depressed in a shallow 

 groove; soft rays of dorsal and anal fins elevated; anal spines grad- 

 uated; bases of soft dorsal and anal thickened, and scaly; caudal 

 rounded. Air bladder present. Pyloric cseca 3. 



(Xoj^oToc lobed; the soft parts of dorsal, anal, and caudal thought to 

 resemble one three-lobed fin.) 



1. LOBOTES SURINAMENSIS (Bloch). 



Holocentrus sunnamensis Bloch, Ichthyologia, pt. 7, pi. 243, 1790 (Surinam). 



Lohotes siirinamensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, 

 p. 319 (after Bloch).— Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, 1860, p. 169, pi. 24, 

 fig. 2 (South Carolina). — Day, Fishes India, 1875, p. 84, pi. 21, fig. 5 (India). — 

 PoEY, Fauna Puerto Riquena, 1881, p. 329 (Porto Rico). — Jordan and Ever- 

 MANN, Fishes North and Middle America, vol. 1, 1896, p. 1235, pi. 194, fig. 

 510. — Jordan and Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, p. 112 (Kings- 

 ton, Jamaica). — Evermann and Marsh, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1900, p. 

 164, fig. 47 (San Juan, Porto Rico), and of authors generally. 



Bodianus triurus Mitchill, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1815, p. 418, pi. 3, fig. 10 

 (Powles Hook, New Jersey). 



Lohotes erate Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 322 

 (Pondicherry). — Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. Kunst. Wet., vol. 23, Scisen., 

 1849, p. 26; Atlas Ich., Perc, pi. 23, fig. 4 (Batavia, Samarang, Surabaya). — 

 Cantor, Cat. Malay Fish., 1850, p. 80 (Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsular 

 coasts, Singapore). 



Lohotes farkhari Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 324 

 (on a drawing), (Malacca). 



Lohotes somnolentus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, 

 p. 324, pi. 126 (Santo Domingo). 



Lohotes incurvus Richardson, Ich. China, 1846, p. 237. (Hong Kong.) 



Lohotes auctorum Gijnther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., vol. 7, 1859, p. 338 (Cuba, 

 Calcutta, China). M 



Habitat. — Atlantic coast of America from Cape Cod to Brazil, Mad- 

 agascar, and East Indies, north to Japan. 



Description. — Of a specimen from Misaki, 48 cm. in total length. 



Head 2f in body, 3^ in total; depth 2| in length; maxillary 2f in 

 head; longitudinal diameter of eye 8; interorbital space (bone, above 



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