Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 133 



2. Batrachus variegatus, Lesueur. 



Second dorsal distinct and with twenty-one rays. Laciniated processes on the jaws, 



eyes, and opercles. 



D. (?)• P. (?). V. (?). A. (?)■ C. (•). Length, 54 inches. 



New Jersey, Lesueur. 



Batrachoiiles variegatus, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc., in. p. 398. 

 Le BatrachoYde vari'i, Batrachus variegatus, Cuv. et Val., XII. p. 1" !. 

 Batrachus variegatus, Dekay's Report, p. 171. 



3. Batrachus celatus, Dekay. 



Head dark olive-brown. Body, on the side, greenish, pale-colored, with irregular dusky- 

 brown transverse bars, which are frequently extended through the vertical fins. Dorsal fins 

 separate. Opercle with two spines. 



D. 3-28. P. 18. V. 3. A. 23. C. 15. Length, 1 inch. 



New York, Dekay. 



Batrachus celatus, Two-spined Toad-fish, Dekay's Report, p. 170, pi. 50, fig. 161. 



Dr. Dekay, whose species this is, says, in his description of the preceding species, that he 

 is doubtful whether that and this are not identical. 



FAMILY XIV. LABRIDiE. 



Body oblong and scaly ; a single dorsal is supported in front by spines, 

 each of which is generally furnished with a membranous appendage ; the jaws 

 are covered with fleshy lips ; there are three pharyngeals, two upper ones at- 

 tached to the cranium, and a large lower one, all three armed with teeth, 

 sometimes en pave, sometimes in points or lamina?, but generally stronger than 

 usual ; an intestinal canal without cceca, or with two very small ones, and 

 a strong natatory bladder. 



GENUS I. COSSVPHUS, Val. 



Maxillaries large ; back of the external row of pointed teeth, there are 

 some small, compact granulations. Opercles generally more scaly than in the 

 genus Labrus. The vertical fins are covered at their base by scales, which are 

 raised or depressed with the rays, and which conceal the rays when they are 

 closed. But they do not form a deep groove, similar to that of the Perches. 

 In most species, deep denticulations upon preopercle. 





