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Show 190 PISCES. Others again have a crescent-shaped or bifurcated tail. ( 1) ANAMPSES, Cuv. AIJ the characters of a J ulis, with the exception of two flat teeth in the jaws, which project from the mouth and curve outwards. But one or two species are known; from the Indian Ocean.(2) CRENILABRus, Cuv. We separate these fishes from the Lutjanus of Bloch, in order to arrange them in their proper place. They have all the characters, external and internal, of a true Labrus, and only differ in the denta· tion of the border of their preoperculum. Some of them arc taken in the northern seas; such as the Lutjanus rupestris, Bl. 250; fawn coloured, with clouded, black. ish vertical bands. Lutjanus norvegicus, Id., 256; brownish, irregularly spotted and marbled with deep brown. Labrua me. lops; orange, spotted with blue; a black spot behind the eye; pl. xxi, f. 1. Labrus exoletus, or L. palloni, Risso; remarkable for the five spines of its anal.(3) The Mediterranean produces a great number which are de· corated with the most beautiful colours; the most splendid is the Labrus lapina, Forsk.; silvery, with three broad longitudi· nal bands formed of vermilion dots, yellow pectorals, the ven· trals blue, &c.( 4) They abound also in the seas of hot eli· Coria aigrette, III, iv, 1, must be closely allied to the Girelle Gaymard. M. de La· cepede has also named Hologymnoaes some of these fishes, in which the scales of the body, smaller than usual, are concealed during life by a thick epidermisi but the scales which do not appear in the drawing of Commerson, engraved Lac6p1 ill, pl. 1, f. 3, are very visible in the dried specimen deposited in the museum: that genus must therefore be included in Julia, together with the Demi-Diaqm, III, pl. vi, f. 1; the .!lnnele, lb., pl. xxviii, and the CercU, which at least are closely allied to it. (1) Species with crescent-shaped or forked tails: Labre Mbrai'que, Lacep.lll, xxix, 3;-Labrus bifasciatus, Bl. 283;-L. lunaria, L., Gron., Mus., II, vi, 2, cop. Encycl., 196;-L. lunaria, Bl., 281, which is different and may possibly be nothing more than an altered Julia turcica;-L. viridis, Bl.., 282;-L. brasilienlis, Bl., 280; Julia cmruleocephalua, Cuv., or Girelle Duperrey, Voy. Freycin. Zool. pl. f. 333;L. argente, Lac., III, xviii. N. B. The Scaros gallus, Forsk., is probably the same as the Lab. lunaria. (2) .Labrua tetroilnn, Bl., Schn., 263;-.!J.nampses Cuvieri, Quoy and Gaym., Voy. Freycm., Zool., pl. lv, f. 1. (3) Add, Lab. gibbus, Penn., xlvi, copied Encycl. 403·-Luti. viracem, Bl., 254, 1. ' ' ".1 (4) Hisso describes severa,l in his first edition under the n:\me of Luijanul; in the second he adopts our genus CnENILABnus, and carries the number of species ACANTBOPTERYGII. 191 mates,( 1) and several species hitherto left among the Labri, should be placed here. CaRious, Cuv. All the characters of a Crenilabrus; in addition to which, the mouth is nearly as protractile as that of an Epibulus. The species known are small, and from the Mediterranean.(2) We must remove the following fi~;~hes from the genus Sparus, in order to place them near Coricus or Cheilinus. EPIBULus, Cuv. Remarkable for the excessive protractility of their mouth, which by a see-saw motion of their maxillaries, and the sliding forwards of their intermaxillaries, instantly becomes a kind of tube. They employ this artifice to capture the small fry which pass within reach of this singular instrument; it is also resorted to by the Corici, Zei and Smares, according to the greater or less protractility of their jaws. The entire body and head of an Epibulus is covered with large scales, the last range of which even encroaches upon the anal and caudal fins, as is the case in Cheilinus; the lateral line is similarly interrupted, and, as in the latter and in Labrus, there are two long conical teeth in front of each jaw, followed by smaller bluntones; we have not had an opportunity of observing those in the pharynx. But a single species is known; Sparus insidiator, Pal., Spic. Zool. Fasc. VIII, pl. v, 1, of a reddish colour. From the Indian Ocean. CLEPTicus, Cuv. A small cylindrical snout, which is suddenly protruded like that of an Epibulus, but which is not as long as the head; the small teeth to twenty-eight; but all his species are not distinct, and his synonymes are sometimes uncertain. His species should be compared with those of Brunnich~ Bloch, &c. The Lab. venosus, llrunn. ;-L. fuacus, Brunn. ;-L. unimaculatlU, Brunn. ;-Lutjanua rostratua, Bl., 254, 2, perhaps the Cr. tinea, Risso;-Lab. 5-ma~ culatua, Bl., 291, 2, is the Crenil. Roissal, Risso;-.Lulj. bidens, Bl., 251, 1 ;-Lab. mediterraneus, Brunn.;-Lab. rubena, Brunn.;~Lab. pe:rca, Brunn.;-Lab. apalatt'Mi8, Br. ;-Lab. tinea, Brunn. ;-Lab. ocellatus, Forsk., or olivaceus, Brunn., &c . . (1) A.t the head of the list should be the Luljanua verres, Bl., 255, the same as his Bodianus bodianus, 223, and as the Perro colorado, Parra, pl. III, f. 1.-Add, Luijanua notatus, BI., 251, 2;-L. violaceua, or L. Linkii, Bl., 252;-L. virescena, Ill. 254, 1;-Lab. burga~ Schrepp., or L. chogset, Mitch., III, 2?-L. chryaops, Bl., 248. (2} The Lutjanus viridens, and the L. Lamarkii, Riss., first edition. In the second he adopts this subgenus and adds to it a Coricus rubeacena. \ |