102 serkantd.t:. 



rather large, protractile ; maxillary exposed, without supplemental bone ; 

 villiform teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; tongue with 

 patches of teeth. Pneoperculum serrated ; operculum with two feeble 

 spines. 7 branchiostegal rays. Two dorsals, contiguous or narrowly 

 separated, with 9 to 11 spines; anal short, with 3 spines. Ventrals 

 a little behind vertical of base of pectorals. Vertebrce 25 (12 + 13). 



Coasts and mouths of rivers of the North Atlantic, as far south as the 

 Senesal. and Mediterranean, sometimes ascending rivers ; fresh waters of 

 North America (Mississippi and eastwards). Two species occasionally 

 ascend the Lower Nile a^^d the Senegal. 



1. MORONE LABRAX. 



Perca lahra.r, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 482 (1766); Donov. Brit. Fisb. ii. pi. xliii. 



(1802). 

 Ferca punctata, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1311 (1789). 

 Scia'tia labra.i; Bloch, Ansl. Lisclie, vi. p. 52, pi. ccci. (1792). 

 Schena diacantha, Bloch, t. c. p. 58, pi. cccii. 

 Ferca diaamtha, Bloch, Schneid. Syst. Ichtli. i. p. 85 (1801). 

 Centrofiomus Ivpiis, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 267 (1802). 

 Ferca elom/ata, Geofifr. Descr. Egypte, Poiss. pi. xix. fig. 1 (1809). 

 J'erca iinuosu, L Geoffr. op. cifc. p. 316, pi. xx. fig. 3. 

 Lahrax lupus, (Juv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 56, pi. ii. (1828) ; Yarr. Brit. Fish 



i. p. 6, fig. (1836) ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Pcsci (1836) ; Kroycr, Danni. 



Fisk. i. p. 23 (1838) ; Costa, Faun. Nap., Pesci, pi. v. (1850) ; Giinth. Cat. 



Fish. i. 63 (1859) ; Steind. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. 1862, p. 496; 



CoucL, Brit. Fish. i. j). 189, pi. xl. (1862) ; Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) 



xii. 1863, p. 175 ; Brito Capello, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, p. 154,' figs. ; 



Steind. Sitzb. Ak. AVien, Ivi. i. 1867, p. 606; Canestr. Faun. Ital., Pcsci, 



p. 78 (1874) ; Collett, Vid. Selsk. Forb. Christ. 1874, no. ?>, p. 15 (1875) ; 



Day, Fisli. Gr. Brit. j). 8, pi. ii. (1880) ; Morean, Poiss. France, ii. p. 33.5 



(1881); Lilljeb. Sver. Norg. Fisk. i. p. 55 (1881); Mcibins & Heincke, 



Fiscbe Ostsee, p. 31 (1883) ; Doderl. ]\lun. Ittiol. Medit. iv. p. 16 (1889). 

 Lahrax elcngatus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 77 ; Giinth. t. c. p. 64. 

 Lahrax imlgaris, Guerin, Icon. Regno Auim., Poiss. pb i. fig. 4 (1829). 

 jAdtrax diacanthus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Pbilad. 1860, p. 110 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1865, p. 96. 

 J Hcentrarchus elongatus, Gill, t. c. p. 111. 

 Lahrax linnei. Malm, Goteb. Bobusl. Faun. p. 379 (1877). 



.J)iceutrarchus lahrax, Jord. & Eigenni. Bull. U.S. Fish Goinm. viii. 1890, p. 425. 

 J^'occus lahrax, Sniitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 45, fig. (1893). 

 Morone lahrax, Bouleng. Cat. Fish. i. p. 130 (1895), and Fisb. Nile, p. 447, fig. 



(1907). 



