114 ORDKR ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Plectropoma, Cuv., 



which differ only in having the teeth, which are more 



or less numerous, of the lower edge of the preopercu- 



lum, directed obliquely forward, slightly resembling 



the teeth of a rowel of a spur \ 



And 



Diacope, Cuv. 



whose character consists of an emargination toward 

 the bottom of the preoperculum, which receives a 

 tuberosity of the interoperculum. 



There are some fine and large species in the Indian 

 seas 2 . 



Mesoprion, Cuv.. 



Have, together with the characters of the teeth and 



1 PI. melanoleucum, Cuv., or Bodian melanoleuque, Lacep., or 

 Labre lisse, id. iii. 23. 2., or Bodian cyclostome, ib. xx. 1. Holoc. 

 leopard, Lacep. iv. p. 337. Cuv. and Val. ii. 36. Bodianus ma- 

 culatus, Bl. 228. or Plectropome ponctue, Freycin. Zool. 45. 1. 

 Hoi. unicolor, Bl. Schn. Seb. iii. 76. 10. Pled, puella, Cuv. and 

 Val. ii. 37. and tbe other species described in the second volume of 

 the history of Fish. 



2 Diac. Sebce, iii. 27. 2. and Russel, 99. D. rivulata, Cuv. 

 Cuv. and Val. ii. 38. D. macolor, Cuv. Renard i. 9. 60. D. oc- 

 tolineata, Cuv., or Holoc. Bengalensis, Bl. 246. the same as the 

 Labrus octolineatus of Lacep. iii. 22. 1., and as the Scicena 

 kasmira, Forsk. ; Hoi. quinquelincatus, Bl. 239, is a variety 

 of it. D. notata, Cuv. Russel 98. D. quadn guttata, Cuv. or 

 Spare lepisure, Lacep. iii. 15. 2. D. calveti, Q,uoy and Gaym. 

 Frey. Zool. 57., and many other species described in our second 

 volume of the historv of Fish. 



