The Bass and their Relatives Gas 
The Flashers: Lobotidz.—The small family of Lobotide, flash- 
ers, or triple-tails, closely resembles the Serranide, but there 
Fie. 4384. —Flasher, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). Virginia. 
are no teeth on vomer or palatines. The three species are 
robust fishes, of a large size, of a dark-green color, the front 
part of the head very short. They reach a length of about 
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Fic. 485 —Catalufa, Priacanthus arenatus Cuv. & Val. Woods Hole, Mass. 
three feet and are good food-fishes. Lobotes surinamensts 
comes northward from the West Indies as far as Cape Cod. 
