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FAMILY PERCIDAZ — LABRAX. a 
EXTRA-LIMITAL. 
P. nebulosa. (Hatpeman, Ac. Sc. Vol. 8, p. 330.) Body slender, slightly compressed; scales 
small, strongly serrated; tail truncated; pectorals very long; branchial rays 6; lateral line 
straight; yellowish brown, with dark transverse bands. D. 14.15; P. 14; V.7; A. 11; C. 18. 
Leneth 55. Susquehannah River. 
P. minima. (Ip. ib. p. 330.) Spots instead of bands. Dorsal with nine rays. Length 2-0. Sus- 
quehannah. 
Oss. Both these species are arranged by Mr. Haldeman under a subgenus of Percide, which 
he terms Percina, characterized by six branchial rays; preopercle smooth on its margin ; opercle 
ends ina spine, and with the cheeks scaly; teeth all fine, and placed on the maxillaries and vomer. 
GENUS LABRAX. Cuvier. 
A disk or bands of teeth on the tongue. Suborbital and humerus without denticulations. 
Two points on the opercle. Two dorsal fins distant and separated. Teeth on both jaws, 
on the vomer and palatines. Cheeks, preopercle and opercle scaly. Preopercle notched 
or denticulated below, serrated behind. 
THE STRIPED SEA BASS. 
LaBRAX LINEATUS, 
PLATE I. FIG. 3.— (STATE COLLECTION.) 
Sciena lineata. Buocn, pl. 304. 
Perca, Rock-fish, Striked Bass at New-York. Scnorrrr, Beobachtungen, ete. p. 160. 
Perca savatilis.'’ Buocu, SCHNEID. p. 89. 
P. septentrionalis. Ip. p. 90, pl. 20. 
Centropome rayé. LacEPeDs, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, Vol. 4, p. 255. 
Roccus striatus. Murcutin, Report in part on the Fishes of New-York, p. 25. 
Perca mitchilli. Ip. Trans. Lit. and Phil. Society of New-York, Vol. 1, p. 413, pl. 3, fig. 4. 
Rock-fish. Mase, Ib, Vol. 1, p. 502. 
Le Bar rayé, Labrax lineatus. Cuv. et Vat. Hist. Poiss. Vol. 2, p. 79. 
The Striped Bass, L. lineatus. STORER, Massachusetts Report, p. 7. 
Characteristics. Brown above, silvery beneath. From seven to nine blackish longitudinal 
stripes on each side of the body. Length from one to four feet. 
Description. Body cylindrical, tapering. Head and body covered with large adhesive 
scales. Lateral line obvious, running through the fourth stripe and nearly straight. Head 
somewhat obtusely pointed. Eyes large, and about two diameters apart. Nostrils double, the 
posterior largest. Gill openings ample. Lower jaw longest. ‘Teeth numerous in the jaws 
and palatines. ‘Teeth on the tongue most obvious on its sides. Opercle with two spines on 
its posterior margin, of which the inferior is largest. Preopercle finely denticulated along its 
lower margin. ‘The first dorsal commences behind the pectoral, and above the latter rays of 
