734 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY; 



BPINBPHBLIS, Blooh. 

 B, morio, Cuv. (erythrogaster.) Eed Grouper. 



Brownish, marked with ash ; salmon below ; fins margined 

 with blue ; scales of lateral line triangular, cycloid ; elsewhere 

 small and ctenoid ; medium crest of cranium developed ; opercle 

 with two spines. Dorsal rays, XI, 17; anal rays, III, 9; 

 lateral-line scales, 106. Southern. 



" Occasionally met with along the coast. The writer has seen 

 a specimen taken at Beesley's Point." — [C. C. A.j 



DULBS. Cuv. 

 D. auriga, Cuv. & Val. Coachman. Charioteer. 



This genus is distinguished by having third dorsal spine 

 filamentous. Doubtful if ever taken on our coast. — J. & G. 



"A specimen of this fish is preserved in the museum of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 'labeled 'Cape 

 May, N. J.' The writer has seen no other specimen from State 

 limits."— [C. C. A. J 



Family SPARIDiE. 



Scales ctenoid, sometimes nearly cycloid (" sparoid ") ; head large ; 

 premaxillaries protractile ; maxillary without supplemental bone, and 

 slipping under preorbital for its whole length; pseudobranchs well 

 developed. 



LUTJANUS, Bl. & Sehn. 



(Mesopriou. Diaoope, &c.) 



L. caxis, Bl. & Schn. (griscus, Neomxnis emargmatus.) Yelting. Gray 

 Snapper. 



Head long ; mouth large ; jaws with bands of villiform teeth, 

 with well-developed canines in upper jaw, an anchor-shaped 

 patch of teeth on vomer and one patch on tongue ; caudal fin 

 lunate ; color greenish olive, each scale with a brown spot ; cheeks 

 with six rows of scales. Dorsal rays, X, 14 ; anal rays. III, 

 8 ; lateral-line scales, 48. 



