Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 273 
D. 12-13. P.13. V.6. A.12, C.17. Length, 3 inches ? 
Florence, Alabama, Storer. Caught in running water. 
Etheostoma tessellata, Srorer, Proceedings of the Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist., 1845. 
11. Etheostoma cinerea, Storer. 
Body oblong, compressed. Head gibbous directly over the eyes. The upper portion of the 
sides is of a light yellow color, crossed longitudinally by three or four cinereous interrupted 
narrow bands, one or two of which commence at the snout, the others back of the head, 
and are lost anterior to the tail. Beneath these bands is a series of longitudinally arranged 
oval blotches, of a similar color, and from these blotches descend obliquely backward and 
downward to the abdomen, narrow transverse lines ; lower portion of the sides yellowish 
white. First dorsal margined with red ; second dorsal and anal variegated with red dots. 
D.11-13. P.15. V.6. A.10. C.17. Length, 3 to 4 inches. 
Florence, Alabama, Srorer. Caught in deep, still water, when fishing for Perch. 
Etheostoma cinerea, Storer, Proceedings of the Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1845. 
GENUS III. LABRAX, Cov. 
Distinguished from the Perch by the scaly opercula, terminating with two 
spines, and by a tongue covered with prickles. 
1. Labrax lineatus, Cuv. 
Cylindrical, tapering. The upper part of the body is of a silvery brown color ; the lower 
part of the sides and abdomen of a beautiful, clear silver color ; eight or more longitudinal 
black bands on each side, commencing just back of the opercula, the upper bands running 
the whole length of the fish, the lower ones terminating directly above the anal fin. 
D.9,1-12. P.18. V.1-4. A.3-11. C.18. Length, 3 to 4 feet. 
Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Srorer. Connecticut, Ayres. New 
York, Mrreniut, Cuv., Dexay. 
Sciena lineata, Biocu, pl. 304. 
Perca Mitchilli, Striped Bass, or Rock-fish, MircuiuL, Trans. Lit. et Phil. Soc., 1. p. 413, pl. 3, fig. 4. 
Rock-fish, MEAsE, = nf I. p. 502. 
Le Bar Rayé (ou Rock-fish) des Etats-Unis, Labrax lineatus, Cuy. eT VAL., 1. p. 79. 
“f <- GRiIFFITH’s Cov., x. p. 103. 
Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p. 10. 
Hi ee Srorer’s Report, p. 7. 
ot se Ayres, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist., rv. p. 257. 
Dexay’s Report, p. 7, pl. 1, fig. 3. 
Linstey’s Cat. of Fishes of Connecticut. 
