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Genus AECHOSAEGUS Gill. 



65. Archosargus probatocephalus (Walb.) Gill. — $heq)sl>cad. 



Abundant ; we saw but few specimens, however, the proper Sheeps- 

 head season being passed. 



Genus SABGUS Cuvier. 



66. Sargus holbrooki Beau. — Spot-tailed Put-fish. 



Extremely abundant everywhere along the Beaufort shore. This 

 species was first described by Dr. Bean during the past year. That so 

 strongly marked and so abundant a species should have so long escaped 

 notice is very remarkable. Dr. Yarrow does not seem to have noticed 

 it and Dr. Cones obtained but one specimen, the generic characters of 

 which seem to have escaped Professor Putnam's notice, as he speaks 

 of it as "an individual resembling S. argyroptf 1 but differing in color. 

 This species has broad incisors and wants the recumbent dorsal spine. 

 Its color is bright silvery, with a large black blotch on the upper part 

 of the caudal peduncle, which is very conspicuous while the fish is in 

 the water. It reaches but a small size, and is not at Beaufort used as 

 food. The fishermen call it Pin -fish, and as such it is beneath their 

 notice. Most of the fishermen, indeed, did not distinguish it from La- 

 gorfon rhomboides. 



Genus STEXOTOMUS Gill. 



67. Stenotomus argyrops (L.) Gill. 



Xot very common ; hardly noticed by the fishermen. 



PRISTIPOMATIDiE. 



Genus H.EMULUM Cuvier. 



68. ? Haemulum arcuatum C. & V. 



Kot seen by us; given in Dr. Yarrow's list, but evidently confused 

 with the next species, so that its occurrence at Beaufort is questionable. 

 The proper orthography of the generic name {a\>±a, blood; oDAov, gums) 

 is Hamidum, not HamyJum, nor Hamulon, 



Genus OBTHOPKISTIS Girard. 



69. Orthopristis fulvomaculatus (Mitcli.) Gill. — Hog-fish. 

 Extremely common everywhere in the harbor. 



SERRANID2E. 



Genus EPIXEPHELUS Bloch. 



70. Epinephelus morio (Cuv.) Gill. 



One specimen noted by Dr. Yarrow. 



