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between the eyes. When first taken from the waters, the 

 whole animal is bright silvery, bnt it soon becomes of a pale 

 burnt nmber-brown, though the belly remains white. The 

 130sterior two-thirds of the lower jaw and mouth within and 

 without are red. Total length, 12 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 13. 14; P. 15— H; V. 1. 5; A. 3. 10: C. 18. 



H. clirysopteron, Guenther, I, p. 313. 



Perca chrysoiJtera, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 488. 



Lutjanus chrysoj^terus , Lacep. IV, pp. 1S6, 226. 



Hcemuhn cJu^ysopferon, Cuv. & Val., V, p. 240, DeKay, 

 New York Zool., IV, p. 85, pi. 7, fig. 22 ; Holbr. Ichth. fe' 

 Car., p. 121, pi. 17, fig. 1. 



Occurs occasionally in the lower part of the Chesapeake 

 Bay. It is not csteem-ed as ioocT, its flesh lacking both firm- 

 ness and flavor. 



OETHOPRISTIS, Criraid. 



0. fulvomaculatus. 



Hog Fish; The Speckled Eed-mouth, or Srmts. 



The form of this fish is elongated, compressed, thin and 

 much arched at the back, thicker and nearly straight at tlie 

 belly. The head is large, with a long and straight face, or 

 but slightly incurved above the eye. Above pale brown: 

 belly silvery; sides marked with numerous yellow spots, dis- 

 posed in irregular oblique lines above the lateral line, and 

 below it in horizontal rows. Lower jaw orange at the angle 

 of the mouth. Total length, 10 to 11 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 11. 15; P. 18; V. 1. 5; A. 3. 12; C. 17. 



Labrus fuluo-macvlafitm, Mitch. Trans. Phil. Soc. New 

 York, I, p. 406. 



Hcemulon fulvo-inaculaiian, DeKav, New York Fauna, 

 Fish, p. 84, pi. 7, fig. 2; Holbr. Ichth vol. S. Car. p. 157. 

 pi. 22, fig. 2. 



PristijMrnafidvo-macuIatuni, Guenther, 1, p. 301. 



Occurs in the salt water of the loAver part af Chesapeake- 

 Bay, and is. much esteemed for food. 



Acad. Coll. S. I. 



