302 Storer on the 
responded, that another species of Pomotis inhabits 
our waters. 
Famity II. 
BUCCZ LORICAT/E. 
Prionotus.  Lacep. 
Generic characters. Head nearly square, covered 
with bony plates: gill-cover and shoulder-plate end- 
ing in a spine directed backwards: body elongated, 
nearly round: two dorsal fins, the rays of the first, 
spinous ; those of the second, flerible: teeth in jaws, 
in front of vomer, and upon palatine bones, pointed, 
small and numerous: gill-opening large: three 
detached rays at the base of each pectoral fin. 
p. strigatus. Cuv. Sea Robin. Gurnard. Grunter. 
Trans. Lit. et Philosoph. N. Y. p. 430 et fig. 
Cuv. et Valene. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv., p. 86. 
This species which is very well described, and 
tolerably figured by Mitchell as the Trigla lineata, 
is frequently taken in the vicinity of Holmes Hole, 
while fishing for other species, but is not used. 
A beautiful specimen received from Dr. Yale 
enables me to offer the following description : 
Body above lateral line of a slate color, with a 
few black spots irregularly distributed ; sides lighter, 
with a reddish tint; abdomen, white. Besides the 
lateral line which is very obvious, a broader brown- 
ish line runs parallel to it beneath, arising under the 
humeral spine, and running the greater part of the 
