Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1409 



very sharp, 3 in head; maxillary extending to below posterior margin of 

 pupil, 22 in head; eye 7 in head; gill rakers shortish, 3+7; ventrals \\ in 

 pectorals; soft rays of dorsal and anal scaleless; pectorals abont If in 

 length of head; highest dorsal spine about 2 in head; caudal double 

 truncate. Color grayish silvery ; back and sides covered with dark-brown 

 streaks and reticulations, which obscure the ground color, especially above 

 the lateral line; lateral line in a pale streak, bordered above and below 

 by a darker one; lower parts silvery; fins unspotted; caudal yellowish 

 orange; inside of mouth deep orange yellow. Length 3 feet. Pacific coast 

 of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama; a common food-fish on the west 

 coast of Mexico, (reticulatus, netted.) 



Otolithus reticulatus, GUNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, 149, San Jose de Guatemala, 

 Chiapas ; GUNTHER, Fishes Central America, 387, 388, and 430, 1869. 



Cynoscion reticulatum, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 232; JORDAN &. 

 GILBERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1881, 319. 



Cestreus reticulatus, JORDAN & EIOENMANN, I. c., 368, 1889. 



17s:{. CYXOSCIOX \KltrhOKUK (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 (SPOTTED WEAKFISH; SPOTTED "SEA TROUT.") 



Head 34- ; depth 4i; eye small, 6 to 7 in head. D. X-I, 25 to 27; A. II, 

 10; scales 10-70 to 75-11. Body rather elongate, compressed; snout long, 

 acute, 3f in head; lower pharyngeals narrow, each with 7 or 8 series of 

 short teeth, the inner enlarged. Gill rakers short and thick, not longer 

 than pupil, about 4-}-7 in number; maxillary reaching to posterior edge of 

 eye; canines strong; maxillary, preorbital, and lower jaw naked; longest 

 dorsal spine not quite the length of the head; pectorals short, not 

 reaching tips of ventrals, 2 in head; caudal lunate; soft rays of dorsal 

 and anal scaleless. Bright silvery, darker above; back posteriorly with 

 numerous round black spots as large as the pupil; both caudal and dorsal 

 fins marked with similar, somewhat smaller spots, much as in a trout; 

 anal dusky. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, New 

 York to Texas; a most excellent food-fish, everywhere common on our 

 Southern coast; rare north of Virginia. The northernmost locality from 

 which we have examined specimens is Beesley Point, New Jersey, (nebu- 

 losus, clouded.) 



Labrus squetengue var. macula tus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. 1815, 396, New 



York ; not Labrus maculatus, BLOCH. 

 Otolithus nebulosus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 79, 1830, locality 



unknown. 

 Otolithus carolinensis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 475, 1833, South 



Carolina; GUNTHER, Cat., II, 306, 1860. 

 Otolithus drummondi, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., Fish., 70, 1836, New Orleans; 



GIRARD, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, Zool., 12, pi. 6, 1859; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 307, 1860. 

 Cestreus carolinensis, GRONOW, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 49, 1854. 

 Cynoscion carolinensis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878. 377. 

 Cynoscion maculatum, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 285 ; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 581, 1883; JORDAN SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 233. 

 Cestreus nebulosus, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 368, 1889. 



