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Show PISCES. · 128 . f ~ d. their :flesh is white and light.( 1) They are also met arucle o 00 ' d · America.(3) with in Senegal,(2) an m U:MBRINA, Cuv. h 8 . renre by a cirrus under the symphy· Distinguished from ot er Cl sis of the lower jaw. . . t ken in the Mediterranean,-Scic.ena A b eau tiful sl>ectes tbs r a ely streaked with steel-col our on a cirrhosa, L.; Bl. ~oo, 0 1 tquand good fish, which has ten short ld nd It ts a arge go grou · bladder furnished with some lateral, creca and a large natatory rounded sinuses.~4) ly appears to differ from the Umbrinre . The ~otNdo:::~:i !~~ :,e::irri on the symphysis.(5) The m a pom e PoGONIAs, Lacep. b . b instead of a single cirrus beneath the Resembles an U m rma, jaw, there are sever~l. ~ d l·n America -Pog. fasce, Lascep., II, 0 0 e of them 1s 1oun ' . · 1 f .1 colour when young marked w1th vert1ca xvi , (5) o da sl vhe' r h becom' es as large as the Sc. um br a, an d l1'k e brown ban s, W lC ( ) Th' it has branched appendages to the natatory bladder. 6 r ~s ' d sound still more remarkable than any o t e fish pro uces a f a1 S . 'd which has been compared to that o sever other c1eno1 es, . h drums. Its pharyngeal bones are furnished wlth large teet en pave.(7) ( 1) The English of Bengal call it the Wltiting.-John. macu_latus, Bbl., oXra; R 116 or Bola chapt~s Buc an. ' · kulla, Russ. 123;-J. cataleus, Cuv., uss., ' . / ka tt Bl·-J. It is the Luijan diacanthe, Lacep. IV, 244;-J. ane~, Bl. 357 ;- . ru a, ., pama, cuv., Buchan, XXXII, 26. (2) J. senegalensis, Cuv., spec. nov. . 8 to be the (3) J. humeralis, Cuv., or Labrus obliquus, Mitchill, which also appeariV x 1·Perca undulata, L. ;-J. Xanthurus, or Leiostome, queue jaune, Lacep. , ' ' J, 8azatilis, Bl., Schn. . . 1 a rudely drawn (4) The Cheilodiptere cyanoptere, Lacep. III, XV1, 3, 1s mere Y . h III 5, Umbrina. Add: Omb. Russelii, Cuv., Russel., 118;-Sc. nebulosa, !ht~t' ., or'tbe which is also the Perea a lIr...!..U rllus, L ., c a:: t esb ., Xll, 2•· -Kinou.f ish or rr t mtgh ' ub· United States;-the Pogonathe dore, Lacep., V, 122, also belongs to 18 5 genus. (5) Lonchurus barbatus, Bl.360. . nd ·as, J~, (6) It is the Labrus grunniens, Mitch., Ill, 3; the Sr:u:ena fusca a . !Pg esit d d d every thmg prov appear to be the same species at a more a vance age, an V 121 to be also the Lalrrus chromis, L.; finally, the Pogonathe oourbine, Lacep .. ' ~ is the same. Add: Ombrina FQI.IIfnieri, Desmar., Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat.; 1 ts c are almost imperceptible. 1 x.i. (7) They are figured by Ant. de Jussieu, M~m. de 1' Ac. des Sc., 1723, P · ACANTIIOPTERYGII. 129 EQUES, Bl. This genus cannot be removed from these Scienoides with two dorsals. It is known by the compressed and elongated body raised at the shoulders and ending in a point near the tail; teeth, small and crowded; the first dorsal is elevated, the second, long and scaly; they all belong to America. ( 1) The Scienoides, 'Yith a single dorsal, are subdivided according to the number of their branchial rays. Those which have seven form various genera parallel to several genera of the Percoides; their preoperculum is always dentated. H1EMULoN, Cuv. A somewhat elongated profile, which has been thought to bear some resemblance to that of a hog; the lower jaw compressed and opening very wide; two pores and a little oval cavity under its symphysis; teeth, small and crowded. The parts of the lower jaw which enter the mouth when it is closed, are generally of a vivid red, from which circumstance their name is derived. (2) Their dorsal is slightly emarginate, and its soft part scaly; they are all from America.( S) PRISTIPOMA, Cuv. The same preoperculum, and the same kind of pores under the symphysis as in Hremulon, but the muzzle is more gibbous, the mouth not so deeply deft, and the dorsal and anal are without scales. The operculum terminates in an obtuse angle concealed in its membran- (1) Eques balteatus, Cuv., or Eq. americanus, Bl, 347, 1, or Chmtodonlanceolatus, L., Edw., 210;-Eq. punctatus, Bl., Schn., III, 2; Eq. acurhinatus, Cuv., Grammistes acuminatus, Bl. Schn. Seb., III, xxvii, 23. (2) From a.lfMJ., blood, and VAOv, gum. (3) Hrem. elegans, Cuv. or .B.ntltias formosus, Bl., 323;-H~. formosum, Cuv., or Perea formosa, L., which is not the same as the preceding one, Catesb., II, vi, 1; but it is the Labre Plumierien, Lacep., III, ii, 2; and the Guaibi ooara of Marcgr., P· 163, the fig. of which is transferred to the capeuna, p. 185;-Hmm. heterodcn, or Diabase rayee, Desmar., Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat.;-Hmm. caudimacula, Cuv., or Uribaoo, Marcgl'., 177; and Diabase de Parra, Desm., loc. cit.;Hre; n. capeuna, or Cape!.llrJa, Mal'cgr., 155, and the fig., p. 163, ofthe Guaibi ooara. ~ 18 the Grammist. trivittatus, Bl., Schn., 188;-H~. cltrysopterum, Cuv., or fi~erca ckrysoptera, ,L., Catesb., II, ii, 1, and several other species described in our 1th vol. VoL. II.-R \ |