114 



The color of this tish is beautiful silvery, a little darker 

 iHM)ii the back. When dead, it is o-ohlen. shaded with ]»ale 

 l)lne aloni;- the baek. 



Fill-rays:—]). \.(\.2n: V. 1(1~-1S : V. 1.5: A. 2.->0 : 

 C. 18^ 



Lich'w Carolina, DeKay. 1. c. p. 114, pi. Id, h^-. :')(). 



Botlirohtnnns pampami.s, Holbr. Ichth. S. Oar. p. 8:1, pi. 

 11, hg. 2. 



Doliodori caroHiinfi. (4irard, Prne. Acad. Nat. Sc. IMiilad. 

 18r)8, p. 1(;8. 



llather uncommon in Chesapeake I'ay, bnt is occasionally 

 l)rought to the Baltimore markets. It feeds on viirions kinds 

 of molluscous and crustaceous aninnds. It is consiihM-ed the 

 most delicious fish of the coast. 



Ac.\i). Coll. >S. I. 



XXVII.— 8TPv()MATETI)yE. 

 PORONOTUS, aill. 



p. TRIACAXTUrs. 



The Short-Finned Harvest-Fisli, or Three-Spined 



Peprilns. 



Body elliptical, much compressed ; its heigdit uearly one- 

 half of its length. Scales small. The lateral line is scaly, 

 and nearly concurrent with the back ; besides tliis thei'e is a 

 counterpart of the lateral line, but curved in an opposite di- 

 i-ection, and between this and the true lateral line is a third 

 line ; both are without scales. Brilliant metallic green, blue 

 and golden. Deep blue on the back, and obscurely mottled 

 in living specimens. 



Fin-rays:—!). :].45 : F. P): A. ;:.42 ; C. Pi. 



r. triacanthii.^, Peck, Mem. Aniei'. Acad. II. i)t. 2, ]». 48, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2. 



-—cnjptosus, Mitch. Trans. Fit. iV PhiF Soc. New York. 

 I. p. ^('(0, ]d. 1, rig. ii. 



