Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. = 317 
waves, and sometimes in tolerably well defined vertical bands. Abdomen silvery. Four 
dorsal spines, three of which are free. 
D. (?). P-(?). V- (2?) A. (2). C.(?). Length, 12 inches. 
Connecticut, Ayres. 
Gasterosteus millepunctatus, Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, 1v. p. 294, pl. 12, fig. 13. 
GENUS XIII. TEMNISTIA, Ricuarpson. 
It has much resemblance, in external form, to Hemilepidotus and Scor- 
pena. It is separated from the former by its body being wholly scaly, and by 
the presence of barbels on the head ; and from the latter, by having only five 
gill-rays anda three-lobed dorsal. ‘The want of scales on the head distin- 
guishes it from Sebastes, and its habit, which is very unlike that of a Blenny, 
its long pectorals and scaly body, detach it from Blepsias. 
1. Temnistia ventricosa, Rieu. 
Brown, with darker spots, and four transverse broad, waved, red bands. Belly white, 
studded laterally with brown spots. Abdomen greatly inflated, pendulous and hemispherical. 
Dorsal fin notched anterior to the twelfth ray by the gradual decrease of the six preceding 
rays. Another but less decided notch at the third ray, the membrane of which reaches only 
to the middle of the following ray. 
B.5.. D. 3s P26. 4V.5. A. 16) Colly. Length, (7): 
Northwest Coast of America, RrcHarpson. 
Temnistia ventricosa, Northwest Notchfin, Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., 11. p. 59. 
FAMILY III. SCIENIDE. 
Is very similar to that of the Percoides, and presents nearly all the same com- 
binations of exterior character, especially the denticulations of the preoper- 
culum, and the spines of the operculum; but it has no teeth, either on the 
vomer or palatines; in general, the bones of the cranium and face are 
cavernous, and form a snout more or less rounded. It often occurs in this 
family that the vertical fins are rather scaly. Some of the genera of this 
family have two dorsals, others but one. 
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