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



fins. Teeth of two kinds ; those in front elongated, curved, pointed ; the 

 others on the vomer, as also on the jaws, truncated or slightly rounded ; 

 branchiostegous rays, six. 



1. Anarrhicas lupus, Lin. 



Purplish brown, with ten or twelve transverse, nearly black bars, passing from the abdo- 

 men high up on the dorsal fin. Pectorals and anal leaden gray. Dorsal rays black. Cau- 

 dal slate -colored, reddish at extremity. The jaws, vomer, and palatines are covered with 

 large bony tubercles, which support on their summits little enamelled teeth, but the anterior 

 teeth are conical and larger. 



D. 74. P. 20. A. 46. C. 161. Length, 3 to 5 feet. 



Greenland, Fabricius. Maine and Massachusetts, Stoker. New York, Mitchill,, 

 Dekay. 



Anarrhicas lupus, Lin., Syst. Nat., p. 430. 



" " Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 133. 



" " Bloch, hi. p. 18, pi. 74. 



" " Shaw's Gen. Zool., IV. p. 93, pi. 13. 



« '• Wolf-fish, Penn., Brit. Zool., III. p. 201, pi. 27. 



" " Sea-wolf, Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., v. p. 242. 



L'Anarrhique loup (Anarrhicas lupus, Lin.), Cuv. et Val., xi. p. 473, pi. 342. 



Anarrhicas lupus, Wolf-fish, Flem., Brit. An., p. 203, sp. 127. 



" " " Jenyns's Brit. Vert., p. 384. 



" " Sea-wolf, Wilson, Encyclop. Brit., Art. Ichth., p. 193, pi. 304, fig. 2. 



" " Common Wolf-fish, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, III. p. 95. 



" " "Wolf-fish, Yarrell's Brit Fishes (2d edit.), I. p. 277. 



" " " Storer's Report, p. 69. 



" " Sea-wolf, Dekav's Report, p. 158, pi. 16, fig. 43. 



GENUS IX. GOBIUS, Cuv. 



Ventrals joined together, forming a hollow disk, placed under the thorax. 

 Two dorsals. Teeth velvet-like, or in cards. 



1. Gobius lanceolatus, Bloch. 



Grayish brown, with three or four blackish points before the first ray of the anterior dor- 

 sal ; an indistinct black spot on the sides back of the pectorals. Height about one eleventh 

 its length, of which the caudal is nearly a third. The caudal is so much pointed, that the 

 outer rays are only one eighth the length of the middle rays. The base of the tongue 

 pearly, clouded with green or bluish. 



D. 5, 1-13. P. 19. V. 1-5. A. 1-14. C. 15. Length, (?). 



Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called " Emerelda," or " Emeraude," in Cuba ; " Endormi," at Martinique. 



