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



1. Cossyphus Bodianus, Cuv. 



Purple, sometimes orange-red upon the back ; beneath gray ; sides and fins citron-yellow. 

 A black spot upon the dorsal and the extremity of the anal. Scales large, finely carved ; 

 thirty-four in a horizontal line between the branchi:e and tail. Four conical teeth at the ex- 

 tremity of each jaw ; the two middle are straight and directed forward ; the other teeth are 

 small and like tubercles, even to the angle of the jaw, where there are two others long and 

 prominent, the last stoutest. 



D. 13-9. P. 16. V. 1-5. A. 3-12. C. 15. Length, 14 inches. 



Gulf of Mexico, Parra. Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Perro Colorado, Parra, p. -1, pi. 3, fig. 1. 



Lutjanus verres, Bloch, 235 ? 



Labrus fulvus, Catesby's Hist. Carol., xi. fig. [ 7 



" " Lin , Syst. Nat. (12th edit.). 



I.e Cossyphe Bodian, Cossyphus Bodianus, Cuv. et Val., xiii. p. 103. 



GENUS II. CTENOLABRUS, Val. 

 Body elongated, scaly. Preopercle denticulated. A band of velvet-like 

 teeth in front ; behind, the conical teeth, in the jaws. Three spinous rays to the 

 anal fin. 



1. Ctenolabrus ceruleus, Mitchill. 



Color very variable, generally bluish ; sometimes, however, of a uniform brown or rust- 

 color ; while the ground of others is greenish, with copper-colored spots, or red, with black 

 points or dots sprinkled over their entire surface, including oftentimes the fins. 



D. 18-11. P. 15. V. 6. A. 12. C. 16. Length, 6 to 12 inches. 



Newfoundland, Cuv. Maine, Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Ayres. New 



York, Mitchill, Cuv., Dekay. 



Tautoga cerulea, Blue-fish or Bergall, Mitchill, Report in part, p. 24. 



Labrus chogset, Bergall of New York, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. -102, pi. 3, fig. 



Crenilabrus burgall, Schoeppf., Griffith's Cuv., x. p. 253. 



" " Conner, Blue Perch, Chogset, Storer's Report, p. 73. 



" " " " Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., Iv. p. 263. 



Le Ctenolabre chogset, Ctenolabrus chogset, Cuv. et Val., xiii. p. 237. 

 Ctenolabrus ceruleus, Dekay's Report, p. 172, pi. 29, fig. 93. 

 Le Ctenolabre mouchS, Ctenolabrus uninotatus, Cuv. et Val., xiii. p. 239. 

 Ctenolabrus uninotatus, Spotted Bergall, Dekay's Report, p. 174, pi. 29, fig. 90. 



GENUS III. ACANTHOLABRUS, Val. 

 The external row of teeth conical and stout ; the posterior are small, form- 

 ing a narrow band. Numerous spinous rays to the anal fin. 



