115 



Ffjji'llas triacanthiis, .Storer, Hep. Mcissacli. p. (50. 



llJmnhnu in'acanthas, DeKay, New York Fauna, Fiwh,, p- 

 J 37, pi. iMi, tij;. 80. 



Oeeurs in ISinepnxent Bay, and many pai'ts of Clic8a})eako 

 Bay, as far nortli as the Fatapsco River. 



PEPRLLUS. Cuv. 



V. GAHDEXII, 



Long-Finned Harvest-Fish. 



Oval; head and body nuicli compi'es.sed: snout blunt; eyes 

 large. Scales .small, and little apparent, scarcely discernible 

 on the fins, and wanting on the head and gill-covers. The 

 rays of the dorsal fin increase rapidly in length from the 

 fourth to the ninth, and rapidly decrease again to the eigh- 

 teenth, after which they are .short and equal; pectorals long 

 and pointed: the anal Ls similar to the dorsal; tlie caudal is 

 deeply forked. Silvery, with tints of blue and green; dusky 

 on the head: blackish patches on the belly towards the tail, 

 which api)ear red and purple in certain lights. 



Fm-iays:— 1). 3. 44; P. 2H; A. 4. 43: C. l\)h 

 ' Cha'todon olepidotas, L. Syst. I, j). 4(j0. 



Sternopiyx (jardenh\ Bl. Schn. p. 494. 



Stromafeus Ion(/ij)iimi.s, Mitch. Trans. I^it. (.V' Phil. Sue. 

 New York, 1. }>. "M'A]. 



lihoinbns lon</ipinni'i. Cuv. ^V: Val., IN, [i. lOl. pi. 271: 

 DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, ]>. PJO, pi. 7."); tig. 231J. 



rcprihis ((j/K/qiiiiiih'i, Cuv. Kegnc xVnini. 111. Puiss. pi. (io, 

 tig. 2. 



Slroinafcu-s 'jardrnii, Guenth. 11, p. o!l',). 



<.)ecurs in Sinepuxent Bay ami in the .southern [lurt of 

 Chesapeake Bay. 

 AcAj). Coll. 



