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veloped; no barbels; no canines; snout very short; mouth large, 

 terminal, very oblique or even vertical, the lower jaw project- 

 ing; teeth minute, equal, uniserial or partly biserial above; 

 preopercle entire or nearly so, without bony teeth. Scales 

 moderate, subequal. Pseudobranchiae well developed. Fins 

 essentially as in Bairdiella, the second dorsal long, the 

 anal short, its spines moderate or small; fins not thickened by 

 accessory scales. Gill rakers long and slender. Vertebrae 

 10+14 = 24. Silvery fishes, all American. 



Subgenus larimus 



280 Larimus fasciatus Holbrook 



Banded Larmius 



Larimus faciatus Holbrook, Ichth, S. C. 153, pi. 22, fig. 1, 1856, Charleston; 

 GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 269, I860'; Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 578, 1883; Jordan & Eigenmann, Rep. U. S. 

 F. C. for 1886, 376, 1889; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 367, 

 1897; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 101, 1898; Jordan & Ever- 

 MANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1424, 1898. 



Body oblong, compressed, ventral outline nearly straight, 

 dorsal outline considerably arched; the depth of the body is 

 contained about three times in the length. Snout very short, 

 much less than diameter of the large eye; mouth large, very 

 oblique, maxillary reaching to posterior margin of orbit; the 

 length of the head is contained three and one half times in that 

 of the body. Tip of mandible on level of lower part of pupil; 

 second anal spine small; pectoral fin short; caudal subtruncate. 

 D. X-I, 24; A. II, 6; Lat. 1. about 62. 



Silvery gray, clouded above; sides marked with about seven 

 nearly vertical dusky bars, running from back to below the 

 lateral line. South Atlantic coast and southward; rare. An 

 individual was captured in Gravesend bay July 25, 1895, and 

 another one August 2 of the same year. These fed freely, and 

 were kept in a healthy condition till January 16, 1896, when the 

 low temperature of the water killed them. The fish is not com- 

 mon anywhere, and had not before been recorded north of 

 Chesapeake bay, except a single example which was taken at 

 Woods Hole Mass. on August 13, 1889 ; the specimen was caught 

 in a trap at the breakwater^ Buzzards bay. 



