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7«i&. Seiaema ©cellata (L.) Gthr. Channel Bass; Bed-fish; Pois- 

 son Bouoke; Pez Colorado; Bass; Bed Bass; 

 Sea-bass ; Spotted Bass. 

 Cape Cod to Florida ; Gulf of Mexico. 

 This is a rival of the drum in size and is vastly more 

 important as a food-fish. Professor Jordan records 

 it as "the most important food-fish of the Texas 

 coast, the amount taken exceeding that of all other 

 species combined." 



30845. Pensacola, Florida. Jordan & Stearns. 



76. Menticirrus albuimiis (L.) Gill. Whiting-; Carolina 



Whiting; Ground Mullet. 



Atlantic coast of the United States from Cape Hatteras 

 to Florida ; - Gulf of Mexico. 



A food-fish of good quality; its size is rather small, the 

 length averaging scarcely one foot. The closely 

 allied M. nebulosus has been taken several times at 

 Gloucester, Massachusetts, off Cape Ann. 



31051. Galveston, Texas. Prof. D. S. Jordan. 



77. ftEenticirriis littoralis (Holbr.) Gill. Shore Whiting; 



Sure Whiting. 



Atlantic coast of the United States from Cape Hatteras 



to Florida ; Gulf of Mexico. 

 This is a common species southward, and it is a good 



food -fish. 



18040. Matanzas River Inlet, Florida. J. C. Willetts. 



78. HIicropagon andulatas (L.) C. & Y. Croaker; Bonco; 



Yerrugato (Cuba). 



Atlantic coast of the United States from Cape Cod to 



Florida; Gulf of Mexico ; West Indies. 

 This is a food-fish of small size but good quality; it is 

 not uncommon in Washington market, where it comes 

 from Norfolk, Virginia. In the Southern States it is 

 abundant. 

 22906. Arlington, Florida. F. C. Goode. 



GERRIDiE. 

 70. Crerres homonymns (Goode & Bean) Jor. & Gilb. 



Diapterus homonymns Goode & Beak. Proc: U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, p. 390. 

 Eucinosiomus argenteus Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 1859, Fish., 

 p. 17, pi. ix, figs. 9-12 (not of B. & G.). 



Gulf of Mexico. 



The species is known from young specimens only. 



26597. Cedar Keys, Florida. Silas Stearns. 



