336 Storer on the 
skin, which enclosed them, a sort of tarnished argen- 
tine or brightish leaden hue. Rays of all the fins 
coarse. The pectorals are long and pointed. Tongue 
white and smooth. 
The intestines of the individual I last dissected 
were lengthy, convoluted, and filled with the frag- 
ments of several sorts of crabs. Swimming bladder 
capacious and thick. Peritoneum, on opening the 
abdomen, blackish. 'T'wo patches of teeth in the 
upper part of the throat, and two smaller correspond- 
ing patches on the lower part, a short distance in 
front of the entrance of the gullet. But all of these 
are very inferior in strength and size to those of the 
mouth. 
Kays: B.4; V. 6; P. 6; D. 24; 4.135; 0.19" 
Pacnus. Cuv. 
Generic characters. Body deep, compressed : dor- 
sal fin single, the rays partly spinous, the posterior 
flexible: four or six strong conical teeth in front, sup- 
ported by smaller conical teeth behind them, with two 
rows of rounded molar teeth on each side of both 
jaws. 
P. argyrops. Lin. Big Porgee. Scapaug. Scup. 
Trans. Lit. et Philosph. Soc. N. Y. vol. i, p. 404. 
Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vi. p. 164. 
This species, which Mitchell describes in his 
“ History of the Fishes of New York," as the “Lab- 
rus versicolor,” Cuvier considers the same as the 
