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fins of the serrani, and their denticulated preopercu- 

 lum, an operculum terminated with an angle, blunt 

 and not spinous \ 



There are many fine species in the two oceans 2 ; 

 many of them are very large, and excellent eating. 



We pass on to the percoides with seven branchial 

 rays and one dorsal, which have the teeth even. 



ACERINA, CUV., 



Are distinguished by concavities in the bones of the 



1 The majority of them are included in the genus Lutjanus of Bl., 

 but were there mixed up with species of other families, as well 

 scisenoides as labroides, of which we have made other genera. 



2 Mesop. unimaculatus, Russel 97, Anthias Johnii, Bl. 318. 

 Coins catus, Buchan. 38. f. 30. M. 5 lineatus, Russel 110. M. 

 monostygma, Cuv. Lacep. III. xvii. 1. M. uninotalus, Cuv., Cuv. 

 and Val. ii. 39. Duham. p. 2. sect. 4. pi. iii. f. 2., and probably 

 spurns synagris, L. Cat. ii. 17. 1. M. buccanella, Cuv., of which 

 Bloch has taken the figure in Plumier, and having altered, has given 

 it for the Sparus erythrinus, pi. cclxxiv. Bod. aia, Bl. 227., or Acara 

 aia, Marg. 167. Mes. chrysurus, Cuv. and Val. ii. 40., which is 

 also the Spams chrysurus, Bl. 262., or Acara pitamba, Marg. 155., 

 the Anthias rabirrubia, Bl. Schn. Parra xxii. 1., the Spare demi- 

 lune, Lacep. iv. 3. 1., and the Colas of Guadaloupe Duham. sect. 4. 

 pi. xii. 1. M. cynodon, Cuv., or Anthias caballerote, Bl. Schn. 

 Parra 25. 1. Anth.jocu, Bl. Schn. Parra 25. 2. Sp. tetracanthus, 

 Bl. 279., which is also the Vivanet gris, Lacep. iv. 4. 3., and the 

 Lutjanus acutiroslris, Desmar, M. sillao, Russ., 100. M. lunulatus, 

 Cuv., Mungo Park, Trans., Lin. iii. 35. 6. Lutj. erythropierus, 

 Bl. 249. Lutj. lutjanus, 245. Sparus malabaricus, Bl. Schn. M. 

 rangus, Cuv., Russel 94. M. rapilli, id. 95. Alphestes gembra, 

 Bl, Sch. pi. Ii. 2. and the other species described in our second 

 volume. 



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