246 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1892. 



Family CONGRIDJE. 



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53. Ophisoma balearicum (De La Roche). H. * ZaXou-apdo-i (,). 



Not seen by Apostolides. If the word is genuine Greek it must 

 mean foam-leopard or storm-leopard, from Ca/yy (^«/«v), surging, 

 foam, storm, and -dpdo'i. 



64. Leptocephalus conger (L). H. Muoyypi (j). 



Apost. 34 {Conger vulgaris, variety Conger niger), i).ouYYpi, 

 t <'^!><'>TY"- ^t Missolonghi. The yi'iyyiKoi of Aristotle 489b 27, 590b 

 17-19, 505a 27, 505a 14, 696a 4, 708a 3, 507a 10, 506b 18, 571b 1, 

 571a 28, 599b 6, 707b 28, 591a 6 10 18, 610b 15-17, 598a 13. 



All those fishes which are long and smooth, as the lyyjkvq and 

 yi'iyyiKi^, have only two fins. Some fishes have two gills on each 

 side, the one single and the other double, as e. g. the yoyyfxx; and 

 ffxdpd^. Some of the yoyyixn hav^e the gall upon the liver, others 

 below, separated from it. A few of the fishes have a gullet {a-oij.- 

 "/"O' ^^ 6- S- ^'^® yjyypo? and ty/i/.o^, and these have it small. (For 

 (STi)i).ayo<i = olfjowayo^ cf. 495a 18 b 19, 496a 2.) Only those fishes 

 which lay the crumbling spawn (jo (I'aOvfiw wov') have thin scales 

 (le-ide^'). For the y>'>yyfi(»} does not have such spawn, neither does 

 the ii.niiavMj. nor the lyyjhj^. The yoyypoi also have egg-masses (y-oi]- 

 imzo?), but the egg-mass is not very apparent on account of the fat. 

 It has a long egg-mass just as serpents have. But when placed 

 upon the fire it makes its nature evident, for the fat smokes and 

 melts but the eggs jump and crackle when squeezed out. And 

 besides, if a person feels and rubs them with his fingers the fat 

 feels smooth, but the spawn rough. Now some ytiyypoi have fat but 

 no spawn, while others, on the contrary, have no fat and much 

 spawn, as has just been described. The -/.diiafjot (Spiny lobsters?) 

 overpower the yoyypoi ; for on account of the roughness of the 

 y.dfiaGiii the yoyypoi do not slip away from them. The y''>yyi>'n^ 

 however, devour the -oXo-ixh?, for the -oXu-ods^ cannot manage 

 them on account of their smoothness. Some Tro/.o-ads'^ have their 

 arms (^Tzhy-dya^, coils) eaten off" by the yoyy/xn. The p.njiarm, op<f6<i 

 and yoyypo? also hibernate (^(fioXohmv, lie quiet or torjiid). Fre- 

 quently the xeffrpeli and the yoyypoc live when the tail has been 

 taken away up to the vent. The y.^fTrptn^ is eaten ofi" by the labrax 

 and the yi'>yypu^ by the p.opav^a. ' The battle is to the stronger against 

 the weaker, for the stronger devour the weaker. Some of the fishes 

 change their places from the open sea to near the land and from the 



