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long as eye, 3£ to 3£ in head; mouth small, inferior, horizontal; maxillary 3 in 

 head, extending to below pupil; no teeth in lower jaw, in the adult ; upper jaw 

 with a narrow series of minute teeth; gill-rakers short, slender, 8+22; lower 

 pharyngeals small, with three series of molars posteriorly and many villiform 

 teeth anteriorly ; preopercle entire ; preorbital broad, 1£ in eye ; third dorsal spine 

 highest, 1$ in head ; soft dorsal with the sheath at its base, formed by a single 

 series of scales ; caudal long and forked, as long as head ; anal long and slightly 

 falcate; second anal spine, 2£ in the longest ray, 4 in head; ventrals $ shorter 

 than pectorals which are as long as the head; scales small, strongly ctenoid, 

 extending on caudal and base of pectorals but not on other tins ; lateral line little 

 curved anteriorly ; scales below lateral line in oblique series. Color bluish above, 

 silvery below; about 15 narrow dark wavy bands extending from the dorsal 

 downward and forward to below lateral line ; a round black humeral spot rather 

 smaller than eye ; fins plain olivaceous, the caudal not yellow. D. X-I, 31 ; A. 

 II, 12 ; scales 9-60 to 70-12 Xanthurus, 71. 



71. LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS. 



(The Spot; Goody; Post-croaker; Oldwife ; Lafayette.) 

 [Plate VI..] 



Leiostomus xanthurus Lace"pede, Hist. Nat, Poiss., iv, 439, plate 10, fig. 1, 1602 (Caro- 

 lina). Cnv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 142, 1830 (Martinique). DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, Fishes, 70, 1842 (New York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 

 321, 1846 (copied). Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 63 (N. Y. to S. C). 

 Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 99, 1876 (Lower Potomac, Chesapeake 

 Bay, Siuepuxent Bay). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 1878, 377 

 (Beaufort). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 281 (Pensacola, Gal- 

 veston). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 606 (Charleston). Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North Am., 574, 1883. Bean, Internat. Fishery Exhib. 

 Berlin, 55, 1883 (Brazos Santiago, Tex. : Pensacola, Fla.). Jordan & Swain, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 233 (Cedar Key, Florida). Jordan & Meek, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 237 (St. John's River, Florida). Goode, Hist. Aquat. 

 Anim., 370, plate 124, 1884 (Newport, R. I., and southward). Jordan, Cat. Fisb. 

 North America, 94, 1885 (name only). 



Homoprion xanthurus Holbrook, Ichthyol. S. Carolina, ed. 1, 170, 1856 (South Carolina). 

 Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, 11, 1859 (Brazos Santiago, St. Joseph's, 

 Texas). 



Seiwna xanthurus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 288, 1860 (New York). 



Mugil obliquus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc, New York, 405, 1815 (New York). 



Leiostomus ooliquus DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 69, plate 60, fig. 195, 1842 (New 

 York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 321, 1846 (copied). Holbrook, Ichthyol. 

 S. Carolina, ed. 1, 164, plate 24, fig. 2, 1856 (South Carolina). Girard, U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Survey, 11, 1859 (Brazos Santiago, Tex. ; Indianola). Gill, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila. , 1863, 32 (north to Mass. ). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1878, 377 (Beaufort). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 93 (St. 

 John's River, Florida ; Wood's Holl). 



Seiwna ohliqua Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 288, 1860 (North America). 



Sciama multifasciata Lesueur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 225, 1821. 



Leiostomus humeralis Cuv. &, Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 141, plate 110, 1830 (New York). 



Leiostomus philadelphicus Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 113 (St. John's R.). Goode 

 & Bean, 1. c, 1879, 131 (Pensacola) (not Perca philadelphica L.). 



Habitat. — South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States ; Cape 

 Cod to Texas ; Martinique (?). 



