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Mediterranean, and was the lupus of the Romans, the 

 labrax of the Greeks. The young are generally spotted 

 with brown. 



There is in the United States a fine and large spe- 

 cies, striped longitudinally with blackish. (Labr. line- 

 atus, Cuv. Scicena lineata, Bl. 304. and Perca saxatilis, 

 Bl. Schn. pi. xx \) 



We might moreover separate from labrax a species 

 from the United States, which has scales even on the 

 maxillary bone. {Labrax mucronatus, Cuv. et Val. 

 ii. 12.) 



Lates, Cuv. 



Scarcely differ from perca, except by strong indenta- 

 tions, and even one small spine at the angle of the pre- 

 operculum, and by stronger indentations also on the 

 suborbital and humeral bones. 



Lates niloticus, Cuv. Perca nilotica, Lin. Keschr. of the Ara- 

 bians, Geoff. Eg. Fish pi. ix. f. 1. 



Is a very large and a very good fish, already noticed 

 by the ancients, (their lotus or lates) of silvery co- 

 lour. 



The rivers of India support other species 2 . 



1 This is also the Perca MitchiUi. Trans, of New York. t. i. 413. 

 Add P. elongata, Geoff. Eg. pi. xix. 1. Lab. waigiensis, Less, and 

 Garn. Cuv. and Val. ii. 83. Lab. japonicus, Cuv. ii. 85. 



2 The peche naire of Pondichery or cock-up of the English of 

 Calcutta. Lates nobilis, Cuv. Russell ii. 131. Cuv. and Val. ii. 13. 

 which is also holocenlre heptadactyle, Lacep. Holoc. calcarifer, 

 Bl. 244, 



