128 OTOLITHUS REGALIS. 



and between these rows two canine teeth in front ; lower jaw with a single 

 row of similar small teeth behind, and a double series before. D. 9-1-29. 

 P. 16. V. 1-5. A. 1-13. C. 17. 



Synonymes. Johnius regalis, Schncid., Ed. Bloch, Ichth., p. 75. 



Weak-fish, Schoepff, Schrift. der Gesells. Nat. Freund., b. viii. st. 2, p. 169. 



Eoccus comes, Mitch., Eeport in part, p. 26. 



Labrus squeteague, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 396, pi. 2, fig. 6. 



Otolithus regalis, Cuv. ct Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. v. p. 67. 



Scicena regalis, Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer. (Ichth.), p. 68. 



Otolithus regalis, Storer, Report, &c., p. 33. 



Otolithus regalis, BeKay, Zool. N. Y., part iv. p. 71, pi. 8, fig. 24. 



Otolithus regalis, Storer, Synops., p. 66. 



Salt-water Trout, Vulgo. 



Description. The form of this fish is elongated, slightly elevated, rather com- 

 pressed, thicker above than below. The head is rather broad behind, but narrow 

 at the snout. The eye is large, elongated, with a black pupil and golden-grey iris ; 

 it is placed one diameter and a quarter of the orbit from the snout, and with its 

 inferior margin at the median plane of the head. The nostrils are double ; the 

 posterior is a large, narrow, elliptical, vertical fissure ; the anterior is much smaller 

 and round, and both are in a sub-triangular depression below the supra-orbital 

 ridge. 



The mouth is large, as the upper jaw extends to the middle of the orbit, and the 

 lips are thin. The upper jaw is rather short, rounded in front, protractile, and 

 armed with a double series of conical, sharp-pointed teeth, the anterior of which 

 are a little the largest ; in front and between these rows are two canine teeth, 

 large, pointed, directed backwards, and recurved; sometimes one or even both 

 of these teeth are broken off at their roots. The lower jaw is longer than the 

 upper, narrower in front, and armed behind with a single series of conical, sharp- 

 pointed teeth, and a double series of smaller teeth in front. The tongue is large, 

 broad, smooth, very free, and slightly emarginate at its tip. 



