CLASS PISCES. 107 



the two dorsal fins are far apart, and the preopercu- 

 lum has a double indented edge. These are small 

 fish, generally of a red colour. 



There is one of them in the Mediterranean, com- 

 monly called king of the mullets, (apogon rex mullo- 

 rum, Cuv. Mullus imberbis, Lin.) Cuv. Mem. du 

 Mus. i. 336. and pi. xi. f. 2. 3 inches long, red with 

 a black spot on each side the tail . 



Cheilodipterus, Lacep. 



Unite all the characters of the apogons, and differ 

 from them only by the hooks, or long and pointed 

 teeth with which their jaws are armed. 



They are fish of the Indian seas ; of small size, and 

 for the most part, striped longitudinally 2 . 



POMATOMUS, Riss. 



Have, like the apogons, two distant dorsal fins, and 

 scales, which fall off with equal facility, but their pre- 

 operculum is simply striated, their operculum einar- 



1 It is the Apogon rouge, of Lac. The Corvulus; Ges. p. 1273. 

 Amia Gronov. Zooph. ix. 2. Centropomus mbens, Spinol. An. 

 Mus. x. 28. 2. Dipterodon ruber, Rafin. Caratt. N. 715, &c. the 

 Dipterodon Mxacanthe, Lac. iii. pi. iv. f. 2. and the Ostorinque 

 fieurieu, id. iii. 32. 2. belong also to this genus. For many foreign 



apogons, see Cuv. and Val. ii. 151. and the following. 



2 Cheilod. octovittatus, Cuv. Lacep. iii. 34. 1. which is also his 

 Cheilod. raye, iii. p. 543. and his Centropome macrodon, iv. 273. Chei- 

 lod. arabicus (Perca lineata, Forsk.) Cuv, and Val. ii. pi. xxiii. Ch. 

 quinquelineatus, ib. p. 167. 



