Storer' s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 21 



D. 12-13. P. 13. V. G. A .12. C. 17. Length, 3 inches ? 

 Florence, Alabama, Storer. Caught in running water. 



Etheostoma lessellata,. Storer, Proceedings of the Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1845. 



11. Etheostoma cinerea, Storer. 



Body oblong, compressed. Head gibbous directly over the eyes. The upper portion of the 

 sides is of a light yellow color, crossed longitudinally by three or four cinereous interrupted 

 narrow bands, one or two of which commence at the snout, the others back of the head, 

 and are lost anterior to the tail. Beneath these bands is a series of longitudinally arranged 

 oval blotches, of a similar color, and from these blotches descend obliquely backward and 

 downward to the abdomen, narrow transverse lines; lower portion of the sides yellowish 

 white. First dorsal margined with red ; second dorsal and anal variegated with red dots. 



D 11-13. P. 15. V. 0. A. 10. C. 17. Length, 3 to 4 inches. 



Florence, Alabama, Storer. Caught in deep, still water, when fishing for Perch. 



Etheostoma cinerea. Storer, Proceedings of the Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1645. 



GENUS III. LABRAX, Cuv. 



Distinguished from the Perch by the scaly opercula, terminating with two 

 spines, and by a tongue covered with prickles. 



1. Labrax lineatus, Cuv. 



Cylindrical, tapering. The upper part of the body is of a silvery brown color ; the lower 

 part of the sides and abdomen of a beautiful, clear silver color ; eight or more longitudinal 

 black bands on each side, commencing just back of the opercula, the upper bands running 

 the whole length of the fish, the lower ones terminating directly above the anal fin. 



D. 9, 1-12. P. 18. V. 1-4- A. 3-11. C 18. Length, 3 to 4 feet. 



Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Ayres. New 

 York, Mitchii.l, Cuv., Dekay. 



Scicena lineata, Bloch. pi. 304. 



Perca Milchilli, Striped Bass, or Rock-fish, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. et Phil. Soc, I. p. 113, pi. 3, fig. 4. 



Rock-fish, Mease, 1, p. 502. 



Le Bar Ray6 (on Rock-fish) des Etats-Unis, Labrax lineatus, Cuv. et Val., ii. p. 79. 



Griffith's Cuv., x. p. 103. 



Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, ill. p. 10. 



Storer's Report, p. 7. 



Avres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 257. 



Dekay's Report, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 3. 



J.insley's Cat, of Fishes of Connecticut. 



