548 Storer on the 
and 36 inches wide, kindly sent me from New 
Bedford, by Wm. H. 'Taylor, Esq., presents some 
dissimilarities to the above. The ocellated spots do 
not exist, but the individual is of an uniform light 
brown color. On the margin of the pectorals, on a 
line opposite the eye, are from four to six longitudinal 
rows of strong recurved spines; on the back of the 
pectorals, towards the lateral angle, are four or five 
longitudinal rows of spines directed towards the dor- 
sum of the fish. All the under surface of the snout 
to the nostrils, and exterior to the nostrils to the 
angle of the jaws, roughened with innumerable small 
tubercles. The teeth have become very sharp; 
their middle portions present an acute angle; they 
are recurved, and exhibit regular rows passing back- 
wards, with a space of a line or more between 
them. The bony process contained in the claspers, 
is four inches long, and half an inch deep at the pos- 
terior extremity. The outer margin is festooned, 
and naked, about two lines of its depth ; the inner 
half of the width, is covered with corrugated flesh. 
FAMILY. 
SUCTORIL 
Petromyzon. Lin. 
Generic characters. Body smooth, elongated, cy- 
lindrical, like that of an eel; the head, rounded ; 
the mouth circular, armed with hard tooth-like pro- 
cesses ; the lip forming a continuous circle r 
