216 ON SEVERAL NEW SPECIES 



means of a hook and line and seine, at Presque Isle, 

 opposite to the town of Erie. They feed upon small 

 scarabaeii. The stomach is very strong, folded into 

 three lobes, of which the first is the largest, and fur- 

 nished with seven ccecums around the neck of the 

 intestine, which is twice folded upon itself. 



B. 5.— P. 16.— Tho. 5.-D. 12. 11.— A. 6. 1.— 

 C. 17 4-4. 



2. C. *fasciata. Specific Character. Fourteen 

 or fifteen transverse brown bands on each side of the 

 body, and two or three oblique ones on the opercula, 

 scaly margined with black ; spinous and soft parts of 

 the dorsal fin equal in length, the fin less arquated 

 upward than the posterior one. 



Description. Body, elongated, compressed, ta- 

 pering at the two extremities, three and a half times 

 as long as the head, by one length in depth ; head of 

 moderate size, narrow, destitute of scales between 

 the eyes, and upon the snout, which is short ; mouth 

 extending beneath the eye ; jaw large, truncated pos- 

 teriorly, intermaxillary long and narrow ; teeth very 

 small, numerous, pointed, curved, and serrated in 

 the manner of a card, on the jaws palate and extre- 

 mity of the vomer; inferior jaw hardly longer than 

 the superior jaw, mandible strong, enlarged spoon- 

 shaped ; eye small and round ; iris white, brown and 

 red : pupil small and of a deep colour ; dorsal fin high, 

 rounded behind, arquated before, and very low at its 

 junction with the soft part, the spinous rays imbri- 



