58 Storeys Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



GENUS VI. CRYPTACANTHODES, Storer. 

 Body anguilliform, very much compressed, gradually tapering to the tail, 

 destitute of scales. Head broad, with no projecting spines but the angles of 

 the gill-covers. The scapular and humeral spines, and the inferior edge of 

 the preoperculum, prominent to the touch. Numerous depressions in the 

 frontal, suborbital', inferior maxillary, and preopercular bones. Branchioste- 

 gous rays, seven. Mouth oblique. A single dorsal fin, composed of strong 

 spinous rays, runs nearly the entire length of the fish, and is united, as well as 

 the anal, to the caudal fin. No ventral fins. Teeth in the jaws, vomer, and 



palatines. 



1. Cryptacanthodes maculatus, Storer. 



Reddish brown, with darker brown blotches, forming two longitudinal series upon the 



sides. 



D.77. P. 13. V. (.'). A. 50. * C 19. Length, 21 inches. 



Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. 



Cryptacanthodes maculatus, Spoiled Wry-mouth, Stoker's Report, p. 28. 



" " " " Dekay's Report, p. 63, pi. IS, fig. 59. 



GENUS VII. HEMITRIPTERUS, Cuv. 



The head depressed ; two dorsals, as in the Cottus ; no regular scales 

 on the skin, but teeth in the palate. The head is bristly and spinous, and has 

 several cutaneous appendages. The first dorsal is deeply emarginate, a cir- 

 cumstance which has led some authors to believe they had three. 



1. Hemitriplerus Americanus, Gmei.in. 



This species varies exceedingly in color ; in some specimens being of a blood-red color, 

 or a pinkish purple, or of a yellowish brown, darker on the back, variegated on the head 

 and sides and fins with irregularly defined markings ; body beneath, yellowish. Surface of 

 the body granulated, and studded with innumerable tubercles. 



D- 16-13. P- 18. V. 3. A. 1.5. C 19. Length, 2 feet. 



Nova Scotia and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cuv., Richardson. Massachusetts, Storer. 

 Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill. 



Coitus Acadianus, Acadian Bull-head, Pen., Arc. Zool., II. p. 118. 



Scorpama (lava, Yellow Scorpama, Mitchill, Trans Lit and Phil Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 382, pi. 2, fig. 8. 



Scorpajna purpurea and S. rata, Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., n. p. 245. 



L'Hemitriplere de l'Amerique, Hemitriplerus Americanus, Cuv. el Val., iv. p. 26S, pi. 84. 



Hemitriplerus Americanus, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, III. p. 50. 



" " Griffith's Cuv., p. 141, pi. 53, fig. 3. 



" " Sea-Raven, Deep-water Sculpin, Storer's Report, p. 23. 



" " American Sea-Raven, Dekay's Report, p. 56, pi. 6, fig. 16. 



