45G CONTRIKFTIOXS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY iv. 



( 'oa>t of Smith ( 'arolina; known only from a mutilated specimen 4 inches 

 long, evidently the young of some pelagic species. 



(.Cuv. A. V;il. i\. Mil-; (Jiiutli.T, ii, 411.) 



FAMILY LXXXL ZEN 



(The Doric*.) 



Body short, deep, much compressed and elevated, naked, or covered 

 with minute scales, or with bony protuberances. Teeth small, in narrow 

 bands or single series, on the jaws and vomer and sometimes on the 

 palatines. Month rather large, terminal, the upper jaw protractile. 

 Ivves lateral. Opercles and other bones about the head often armed 

 with spines. Branchiostegals 7 or 8. Gill-membranes little united, free 

 from the isthmus. Pseudobranchia> large. Air-bladder large. (1 ill- 

 rakers usually short. Gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Dorsal lin emar- 

 ginate, or divided, the anterior part with strong spines, the posterior 

 part longer; anal fin with or without spines ; ventral fins thoracic, their 

 rays I, 5 to I, 8 ; caudal fin usually not forked. Lateral line obscure, 

 unarmed. Pyloric coeca exceedingly numerous. Vertebne about 32. 

 Genera 5; species about 10; fishes of singular appearance, inhabiting 

 warm seas. 



(Scombritln; jjroup Cyltina, Giiuther, ii, 393-396: Ci/tH-la (JiiniluT, Intr. Snidv Fish. 

 450.) 







a. Scales minute or wanting; anal spines vrry strong; no palatine teeth. (/,niii(i'.) 

 i>. Anal spines :?; bases of both dorsals armed mth spinooa plates. ZENOPSIS, ^37. 



237. ZE \OPSIS Gill. 



(<;ill. 1'nic. Ac-mi. Xiit. Sci. I'liila,. I^IVJ, 1'^:!: type /nin iirliitlosux Tciniiiiiiuk & 

 Schlr^cl, from .Japan.) 



I'.ody ovate, mncli compressed, without scales, not \\arty. Head 

 deeper than long, its anterior profile steep. Mouth rather large, upper 

 jaw protractile; teeth small, on jaws and vomer, none on the palatines. 

 V'irioii> IMMI, -s of the head and shoulder girdle armed with spines. 

 Series of bony plates along the sides of the belly and the bases of the 

 dorsal and anal, each plate armed with a strong spine. K\ e large, 

 placed high. ( iill rakers short. Dorsal spines very strong, usually 10 

 in number. Anal spines ;?. Ventral fins long, mostly I, 7. Caudal 

 peduncle Blender, the lin not forked. Twoor three species known, differ- 

 ing from /nix, mainh in I he presence of.", anal spines instead of 1. IV 

 lagic. (Ci'"'?. /'-n>: ..-.-. appearance. Zens is from Ce<^, Jupiter.) 



