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63. SCIiENA OCELLATA. 



(The Red Drum, or Channel Bass; "Red-fish.") 



[Plate IV.] 



Perca oeellata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 483, 1766 (South Carolina). Goode & 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 1885, 202 (examination of Linmean types). 



Cen troponins ocellatus Lace'pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 257,279,1802. 



Covvina oeellata Cuvier & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 134, plate 108, 1830 (New Orleans). 

 DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 75, plate 21, fig. 61, 1842 (New York). Storer, 

 Syn. Fish. North Am., 319, 1846 (copied). Holbrook, Iclitliyol. S. Carolina, 

 ed. 1, 149, plate 21, fig. 2, 1856 (South Carolina). 



Johnius ocellatus Girard, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Survey, 14, plate viii, fig. 1-4, 1859 ( In- 

 dianola, Tex.). 



Sciwna oeellata Guntker, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 289, 1860 (America). Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882,280 (Pensacola, Galveston). Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 606 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 

 Fish. North Am., 571, 1883. Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 233 

 (Cedar Key, Florida). Goode, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 371, plate 125, 1884. 



Sciamops ocellatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863,30 (name only). Uhler & 

 Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 100, 1876 (southern part Chesapeake Bay). 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 378 (Beaufort). Goode & 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 113 (St. John's River, Florida). Goode & 

 Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 132 (Pensacola). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, 93 (St. John's River, Florida; Beaufort, N. C. ; Fort Macon, 

 N.C.). 



Lutjanus triangulum Lac6pede, Hist. Nat.Poiss., iv, 181 and 217, plate 24, fig. 3, 1802. 



Sciama imberUs Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc, New York, 411, 1815 (New York). 



Habitat. — South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, New 

 York to Texas. 



This species is common along our coast, especially to the southward, 

 where it one of the largest and most important of the food -fishes. On 

 the Texas coast, where it is known as "Bed-fish," or "Pescado Col- 

 orado, " it exceeds in economic value all other fishes found there. 



64. SCIiENA HETEROLEPIS. 



Johnius heterolepis Bleeker, Archives Neerlandaises, viii, 1873, with plate (Surinam). 



Habitat. — Surinam. 



We know this species solely from Dr. Bleeker's account of it. It much 

 resembles the species of Ophioscion, but from these it is apparently sep- 

 arated by the entire preopercle, which, in the figure, is represented much 

 as in Scicena and Johnius. - 



65. SCIiENA AQUILA. 



(The Maigre.) 



f Labrus hololepidotus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 517, plate 21, fig. 2, 1802 (Cape of 



Good Hope). 

 Cheilodipterus aquila Lace'pede, loc. cit., v, 685, 1803. 



Scicena aquila Cuv. &. Val., v, 28, pi. 100. Giinther, ii, 291, and of writers generally. 

 Perca vanloo Risso, Iclitliyol. Nice, ed. i, 298, plate 9, fig. 30, 1810. 

 Scicena umbra Cuvier, Mem. Mus., i, 1 (not of Linnaeus). 

 ? Sciwna capensis Smith, "111. S. Afr. Fishes, plate 15." 



