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Serranm airarim Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. Am., 533, 1883 ; Goode & Bean, Proo. U. S. Nat. 
Mils., 238, 1882 (Gulf of Mexico) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 600, 1882 (Charles- 
ton) ; Beau, Cat. Internat. Fish. Ex. Lond., 61, 1883 (Matanzas River Inlet, Fla.) ; Jordan & 
Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 231, 1884 (Cedar Keys, Fla.) ; .Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 82, 188.'i 
(name only); Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. An., 407, 1886; Jordan, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus.,1886,27 
(Beaufort, N. C.). 
BlacTcjisli Schopf, Schriften der Natiirforsch. Freunde, Berlin, VIII, 164, 1788 (New York). 
Perea farm Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, 336, 1792 (after Schopf). 
Serranus furviis Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 546, 1884; Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 82, 1885. 
Coryplioena nigrescens Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthy., 297, 1801 (New York). 
Lutjanus trilobus Laedpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV. 246, 1802 (locality unknown). 
Serranus nigrescens .Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. Am., 917, 1883. 
Perea varia Mitchill, Report Fishes N. Y., 415, pi. 3, fiir. 6, 1815 (New York). 
Centropristis varius Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., 144, 1855 (Salem Harbor); Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 58, 
pi. ii, fig. 4, 1867. 
Centropristes nigricaus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 37, pi. 44, 1829 (New York) ; Cuvier, “Rbgne 
Animal, Ed. Val., pi. 9 a, fig. 18;” Storer, Fish. Mass., 9, 1839 (Holmes’ Hole); Dekay, New 
York Fauna, Fishes, 24, 1842, pi. ii, fig. 6; Linsley, “Cat. Fishes Conn., 1844;” Storer, 
Synopsis, 287, 1846. 
Centropristes rufus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 47, 1829 (Martinique?); Storer, Synopsis, 288, 
1846 (copied). 
Serranus rufus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 533 (note on type of C. rufus). 
Habitat. — Atlantic coast of (Juited States, Cape Ann to Florida. 
Etymology. — Striatus, striped. 
This is one of the common food fishes of our Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod at 
least as far south as the northern parts of Florida. It reaches a weight of about 3 
pounds, and the quality of its flesh is excellent. Holbrook has maintained that the 
northern form of this fish {Perea striata = furvus = nigricans) is distinct from the 
southern atrarius. The northern form (striatus) is said to have the air-bladder simple 
and the pectoral flu as long as the ventrals. In the southern fisb (atrarius) the air 
bladder is sacculated and the pectoral longer than the ventral. We have been unable 
to verify these differences and doubt their permanence. There are, however, marked 
sexual differences in the adult fishes, the male having the fin rays more prolonged and 
the form of body different. 
The specimens before us are from Wood’s Holl, Beaufort, Charleston, and St. 
Augustine. 
The type of Centropristes rufus has been examined by us in the museutn at Paris. 
It is probably an ordinary striatus, with the caudal fin somewhat mutilated, and it 
very likely came from J)lew York rather than from Martinique. 
Labrus striatus Linuaeus, with D. X, 11 ; A. Ill, 8, with the dorsal spines 
“ rameutaceous,’’ and the body marked with lines alternately brown and white, must 
have been the young of some Centropristis, in all probability of the present species. 
The name striatus, being given in tbe tenth edition of the Systema Naturae, has 
priority over atrarius. 
73. CENTROPRISTIS OCYURUS. 
Serranus trifurcus Goode & Bean, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 238, 1882 (Gulf of Mexico); Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 273, 1882 (Pensacola); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S Nat. Mus., 307, 
1882 (Gulf of Mexico) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 917 (Gulf of Mexico) (not Perea trifurca L. ) 
Serranus philadelpliicus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 143, 1883 (Pensacola) (not type). 
Serranus ocyurus Jordan & Evermauu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 468, 1886 (Pensacola). 
