. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 282 FISHES OF NORTH CAKOLINA. This species, which Uves on rocky bottom in rather deep water off Charleston, South CaroUna, is also known from the North Carolina coast at Beaufort. Dr. Jenkins obtained a few specimens in Beaufort Harbor in 1885. In the summer of 1902, 8 specimens were taken in a trawl by the steamer Fish-Hawk near the sea buoy off Beaufort Inlet; and 2 others, 4 inches long, were seined on Bird Shoal in Beaufort Harbor in 1903. The maximum size is about 1 foot. .Genus DIPLECTRUM Holbrook. Squirrel-fishes. Small American marine species, w
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 282 FISHES OF NORTH CAKOLINA. This species, which Uves on rocky bottom in rather deep water off Charleston, South CaroUna, is also known from the North Carolina coast at Beaufort. Dr. Jenkins obtained a few specimens in Beaufort Harbor in 1885. In the summer of 1902, 8 specimens were taken in a trawl by the steamer Fish-Hawk near the sea buoy off Beaufort Inlet; and 2 others, 4 inches long, were seined on Bird Shoal in Beaufort Harbor in 1903. The maximum size is about 1 foot. .Genus DIPLECTRUM Holbrook. Squirrel-fishes. Small American marine species, with preopercle armed with 2 clusters of strong spines; low dorsal fin, without elongated rays; deeply concave caudal fin; rounded pectorals; small scales, and top of head with a large bare area. Five known species, 1 found on the South Atlantic Coast. {Diplecti'um, double spur.) 247. DIPLECTRUM FORMOSUM (Linnseus). Squirrel-fisli. Perca formosa JAimseus, Systema Naturae, ed. xii, 488, 1766; Carolina, Diplectrum farmosum, Jordan & Evermann. 1896, 1207, pi. cxci, fig. Fig. 125. Squirrel-fish. Diplectrum formosum. Diagnosis.—Body elongate, depth contained times in total length; head contained times in length; mouth large, maxillary extending to pupil, lower jaw the longer; eye .2 length of head, shorter than snout; preopercle with finely serrate upper margin and 2 patches of divergent spines; gill-rakers 14 or 15 below angle of first arch; scales in lateral series 80 to 90, in transverse series 30; numerous rows of scales on cheeks and opercles; dorsal rays x,12, all low, the longest .5 head; anal rays iii,7, soft rays of uniform length, the spines shorter and weak; caudal concave. Color: dull, light brownish above, white below; 7 or 8 rather broad dark cross-bands, 3 or 4 dark longitudinal stripes, 8 narrow blue longitudinal stripes; head yel- low, with 5 or 6 wavy blue stripes below eye; 5 narrow blue cross-bars between eyes; dark spot at base of caudal; dor
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