MORONE. 



103 



Depth of body 3| to 4| times in total length, length of head 3 to 3| 

 times. Snout 1^ to 2 times diameter of eye, which is 5 to 7 times in 

 length of head in adult ; interorbital space wide, covered with cycloid 

 scales; lower jaw slightly projecting; maxillary extending to below 

 anterior third or centre of eye ; vomerine teeth forming a crescentic 

 group ; 4 to 6 strong antrorse spines on lower border of prseoperculum ; 

 lower opercular spine stronger than upper. Gill-rakers longer thiin 

 gill-laminfe, 10-18 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal VIII-IX, 

 1-11 12-13 ; fourth and fifth spines longest, f to f length of head. 



Fig. 80. 



Morone labnuv. 

 L. Menzaleh (F. K.). f 



Anal III 11-12 ; third spine longest, i to ^ length of head. Pectoral 

 -2 to i length of head. Caudal emarginate, middle rays about f length 

 of outer, ''scales C5-80 \^^. Silvery, back grey or ohve, without spots 

 in the adult, sometimes black-spotted in the young and half-grown ; a 

 blackish spot at the end of the gill-cover. 



Attains a length of 800 millim. 



Mediterranean and coasts of Europe, as far north as Finmark. 

 I_9 Ad. L- Menzaleh. L- Loat, Esq. (C). 



3 "^j_ ' Barnige N. of Cairo. Qipt. S. S. Flower (C). 



2. MORONE PUNCTATA. 



Sckena pimdata, Bloch, Aiisl. Fische, vi. p. 64, pi. cccv.(1792). 



Perca pundidata, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 418 (1802). 



Perca punctata, I. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Poiss. p. 316, pi. xx. fig. 2 (1827). 



Lahraa^picndat^is, Gliath. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xii. 1863, p. 175 ; Brito Capello, 

 Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, p. 154, figs. ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. W.en, Ivi. i. 1867, 

 p. G07, and Ix. i. 1869, p. 671 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, ii. p. 337, fig. (1881) ; 



