310 Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
GENUS VI. CRYPTACANTHODES, Srorer. 
Body anguilliform, very much compressed, gradually tapering to the tail, 
destitute of scales. Head broad, with no projecting spines but the angles of 
the gill-covers. The scapular and humeral spines, and the inferior edge of 
the preoperculum, prominent to the touch. Numerous depressions in the 
frontal, suborbitar, inferior maxillary, and preopercular bones. Branchioste- 
gous rays, seven. Mouth oblique. A single dorsal fin, composed of strong 
spinous rays, runs nearly the entire length of the fish, and is united, as well as 
the anal, to the caudal fin. No ventral fins. ‘Teeth in the jaws, vomer, and 
palatines. 
1. Cryptacanthodes maculatus, Srormr. 
Reddish brown, with darker brown blotches, forming two longitudinal series upon the 
sides. 
D.77. P.13. V.(?). A-50. C.19. Length, 21 inches. 
Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsuey. 
Cryptacanthodes maculatus, Spotted Wry-mouth, Srorrer’s Report, p. 28. 
rf uG FE Bg Dexay’s Report, p. 63, pl. 18, fig. 50. 
GENUS VII. HEMITRIPTERUS, Cov. 
The head depressed ; two dorsals, as in the Cottus ; no regular scales 
on the skin, but teeth in the palate. The head is bristly and spinous, and has 
several cutaneous appendages. ‘The first dorsal is deeply emarginate, a cir- 
cumstance which has led some authors to believe they had three. 
1. Hemitripterus Americanus, Gmenin. 
This species varies exceedingly in color; in some specimens being of a blood-red color, 
or a pinkish purple, or of a yellowish brown, darker on the back, variegated on the head 
and sides and fins with irregularly defined markings; body beneath, yellowish. Surface of 
the body granulated, and studded with innumerable tubercles. 
D. 16-13. P.18. V.3. A.15. C..19. Length,)2 feet. 
Nova Scotia and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cuv., Richarpson. Massachusetts, STorer. 
Connecticut, Linstey. New York, Mircuru. 
Cottus Acadianus, Acadian Bull-head, Pen., Arc. Zool., 11. p. 118. 
Scorpzna flava, Yellow Scorpena, Murcuitx, Trans, Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N, Y., 1. p. 382, pl. 2, fig. 8. 
Scorpena purpurea and S. rufa, Mrrcumt, Amer. Month. Mag., um. p. 245. 
L’Hémitriptére de ’ Amérique, Hemitripterus Americanus, Cuy. et Vat., 1v. p. 268, pl. S4. 
Hemitripterus Americanus, Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 111. p. 50. 
Be re GrirFitH’s Cov., p. 141, pl. 53, fig. 3. 
LG a Sea-Raven, Deep-water Sculpin, SrorEer’s Report, p. 23. 
a AS American Sea-Raven, Dekay’s Report, p. 56, pl. 6, fig. 16. 
