lOt ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Centropomus, Lacep. 



Have the preoperculum indented, but their operculum 

 is obtuse and armless. Only one is known l . 



Cen. undecimaVis , Cuv. Scicena undecimalis, Bl. 305. Cuv. and 



Val. ii. 14. 



A large and good fish, known throughout the hot 

 parts of America, under the name of pike, and which 

 has indeed the muzzle depressed like our true pike ; 

 but its teeth are even, and all its other characters are 

 those of the percoides with two dorsal fins. It is 

 silvery tinted, with greenish, and has a lateral black- 

 ish line 2 . 



Grammistes, Cuv. 



Have spines to both the preoperculum and the oper- 

 culum, but without the indentations ; their two dorsal 

 fins are near each other. The scales are small, and 

 immersed, as it were, beneath the epidermis ; the anal 

 fin is without a visible spine. 



The species are small, striped longitudinally, white 

 on a blackish ground. They come from the Indian 

 Sea 3 . 



1 Lacepede has included in his genus centropome, many fish which 

 have not its characters, as the labrax, the lates, &c. 



2 Bl. pi. cccv. has improperly tinted it red, the spyrene orvert, 

 Lacep. v. pi. iv. f. 2. is only a bad figure of this fish. It is also the 

 camuri of Margrave. 



3 Grammistes orientalis, Bl. Cuv. and Val. ii. pi. xxvii. The sciene 



