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Show 138 PISCES. CJEsio, Lacep. Only differs from Smaris in a dorsal somewhat higher in front, and surrounded at its base with fine scales. They inhabit the Indian ocean, and at·e shaped like a spindle.(l) GERRES, Cuv.-Mocharra, in South America. The mouth protractile, but when advancing, it descends; the body is elevated, the anterior part of the dorsal in particular, along the base of whose posterior portion is a scaly sheath. They have no other teeth than those in the jaws, which are small and crowded. The first interspinal of their anal fin is tabular as in certain Pagri. They are excellent food, and inhabit the h.::>t parts of both oceans.(2) G. rhombeus, Cuv.; Sloane, II, pl. 253, f. 1. A species that is said to penetrate occasionally as far as the coast of Cornwall, following pieces of wood covered with Anatifre, carried there by the currents.(3) FAMILY VI. SQUAMIPENNES. So called, because the soft, and frequently the spinous parts of their dorsal and anal fins are covered with scales, which encrust them, as it were, and render it difficult to dis· tinguish them from the mass of the body. This is the most remarkable character of these fishes, the body of which is ge- (1) Cresio asuror, Lacep., III, 86, or Vackum, Valent., 132, or Cantltere douteux, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat.livr.IV;-C. smaris, Cuv., or Vackum mare, Renard, I, pl. 32, f. 174;-Bodianus argenteus, Bl., 231, or Picarel raillard, Quoy et Gaym., Zool. Freycin. pl. 44, f. 3 ;-Sparus cuning, Bl., 263, or Cycltla cuning, Dl. Schn., p. 336. N.B. M. de Lacepede also makes a Ccesio of the Scomber equula of Forskal, or Centrog08ter equula of Gmelin, which is our Equula caballa. (2) Labrm vyena, Forsk., Rupp. Voy. Poiss., pl. III, x, 2, or Spare breton, Lacep. IV, 134, or Labre long museau, I d. 111, xix, 1, and p. 467 ;-Gerre8 aprion, Cuv., Catesb., IT, xi, 2;-G. rhombeus, Cuv., or Stone-bass, Sloane, Jam., II, pl. 253, f. 1;-G. poieti, Cuv., Ren., pl. ii, f. 9, Valent., No. 354;-G. lineatus, Cuv., or Smari3 lineatusl Humb., Zool. Obs. pl. xlvi, f. 2;-Gerres argyreus, Cuv., or Sr:i:ena argyrea, Forster, or Cycltla argyrea, Bl., Schn .. ;-G.filamentosus, Cuv., or Wordawalw.h, Russ., f. 68. (3) Couch, Lin. Trans., XIV, part. I, p. 81. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 139 nerally much compressed, the intestines long, and the creca numerous. They were comprised by Linnreus in the genus CHJETODON, Lin. So named from their teeth, which in length and tenuity resemble hairs, collected in several close rows like a brush. Their mouth is small; their dorsal and anal fins are so completely covered with scales similar to those on the back, that it is extremely difficult to ascertain where they commence. These fishes are very abundant in the seas of hot climates, and are adorned with the most beautiful colours, circumstances which have caused many to be figured, and rendered them common in our cabinets. Their intestines are long and ample, and their creca long, slender and numerous; their natatory bladder is large and very strong. They frequent rocky shores, and are eaten. CHlETODoN, properly so called. The body more or less elliptical; the spinous and soft rays continuing in a uniform curve; the snout projecting more or less, and sometimes a very small indentation in the preoperculum. They have a mutual resemblance, even in the distribution of colours, most of them, for instance, being marked with a vertical black band, in which is placed the eye. In some there are several other vertical bauds parallel to the former.(l) In others they are oblique or longitudinal.(2) The flanks of some are sprinkled with brown spots.(3) Others again are merely marked with lines of reflections in various directions; here it is merely the ocular band;( 4) and there, in addition, are ribands on the vertical fins.( 5) One or two ocellated spots are observed in some.(6) (1) Ol~.ret. striatus, L., Bl. 205, f. 1;-C/£, octofasciatus, Gm., Bl., 215;-H. collare, m., 216. (2) O~t. Meyeri, Bl., Schn., improperly called Holocanthe jaune et noir by Lacep., IV, xiii, 2. (3) 0/uet. miliaria, Cuv., Zool. Voy. Freycin., pl. 62, f. 5. (4) 0/uet. Kleinii, Bl., 218, 2;-Ch. Sebre, Cuv., Seb., III, xxvi, 36. (5) O~t. vittatus, Bl., Schn., Seb., III, xxix, 18;-Ch. vagabundus, Bl., 204;Ch. decussatus, Cuv., Buss., 83; and Klein, Mis., lV, ix, 2;-Ch. bifascialis, Cuv., Voy. de Freycin., pl. 62, f. 5;-Ch. strigangulus, Gm.;-Ch. baronessa, Cuv., Re· nard, I, xliii, 218;-Clt.frontalis, Cuv ., or Pomacentre croissant, Lacep. ;-Ch. fasciatus, Forsk., or Ch.flavus, Bl., Schn., No. 37. {6) Oh. nasogallicus, Cuv., Ren., I, v, 37; and Will., App., V, 4;-Ch. capi8- tratus, L., Seb., III, xxv, 16, Mus. Ad. Fred., XXXIIT, 4; Klein., Misc., IV, xi, \ |