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broad disk, -which is surrounded b}' an elevated border, and 

 divided throughout its length by a fleshy partition, on each 

 side of which are from twenty-one to twenty-three pairs of 

 transverse plates. A fresh specimen is slate-brown above, 

 lighter beneath. A broad black band extends from the an- 

 gle of the mouth to the tail. Along the back are a series of 

 dark colored marks, like an inverted letter V. Pectorals 

 and ventrals edged with white; dorsal and caudal with a 

 broad, white border, gradually diminishing towards the last 

 rays. Tip of caudal broadly edged with white. Length, 12 

 to 20 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 33; P. 18; V. 7; A. 30; C. 18. 



Echeneis naiicr cites, 1j. Svst. 1. p. 446; Storer, Kep. Fishes, 

 Massach. p. 153: Mitch. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New York, 

 I, p. 377. 



— albiccmda, ISlitch. Am. Monthl. Mag. II, p. 244; DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 307, pi. 54, fig. 177. 



A solitary specimen of this ocean fish is occasionally met 

 with in Chesapeake Bay. 



Acad. Coll. 



ECHENEIS, Artedi. 



E. naucratoides. 



The Suck-Fish. 



Similar in form to the preceding. Head large, broad, con- 

 cave above, where it is occupied by the oval adhesive disk, the 

 border of which is fleshy, thick, free, movable and elevated. 

 It is divided by a partition, on each side of which are twenty- 

 one transverse plates, with their free margins directed back- 

 wards. The body of a fresh specimen is dark above, with 

 belly and lower jaw white; from the tip of the latter runs a 

 strij)e along the middle to the tail, interru2:»ted only at the 

 eye and pectoral fin; above this is a narrow band of clouded 

 yellow, and below a sulphur-colored one. Dorsal, anal and 

 ventral bluish, the former with the tijjs of the first six or 

 seven rays white; caudal bluish, with the upper and lower 

 margins white. Total length, 2 feet. 



Fin-rays;— D. 37; P. 18; V. 1. 5; A. 33; C. 18. 



E, naucratoides, Gill. 



E. liolbrooliii, Guenther, II p. 382, 



— albicauda, DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 307. 



