110 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



The Serrani (properly so called) commonly named Sea 



Perch. 



In which the two jaws have no apparent scales. 

 The Mediterranean has some pretty species, as 



Perca scriba, Lin. Cuv. and Val. ii. 28. 



So named from some irregular blue stripes on the 

 head \ 



Perca cabrilla, Lin. Cuv. and Val. ii. 29. 



With three oblique bands on the cheek 2 . It is also 

 taken in the ocean. This species, and perhaps the 

 preceding, was known to the Greeks under the name 

 of yavi\, and was said to have none but females. Ca- 

 volini indeed affirms that all the specimens he has 

 observed had ovaries, and toward the lower end a 

 whitish part which might be considered as the milt. 

 He considers them capable of self impregnation. 



1 This is also the Perca marina of Brunnich, Holocentrus marinus 

 of Laroche, Hoi. argus of Spinola, and Hoi. maroccanus of Bl. It 

 appears to us also that Hoi. fasciatus, Bl. 240, is merely a mu- 

 tilated individual of this species. 



2 It is also Hoi. virescens, Bl, Serranus Jlavus, and cabrilla of 

 Riss. Labrus chanus, Gm., Holocentre chani, Lacep., the Bodian hia- 

 tule of the same, &c. Add Labrus hepatus, Lin., Lab. adriaticus, 

 Gm., or Hoi. siagonotus, Laroche, &c. Serranus vitta, Quoy and 

 Gaym. Voy. de Freycin. Zool. 58. 2. Hoi. argentinus, Bl. 235. 2. 

 Serr. radialis, Q. andG. 316. S.fascicularis. Cuv. and Val. ii. 30, 

 and the other species in Cuv. and Val. ii. p. 239 249. 



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