15C ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



ponding with many genera of the perco'ides ; their 

 preoperculum is always denticulated. 



ILemulon, Cuv. 



Commonly called red gullet in the Antilles, have 

 rather a lengthened profile, which has been thought 

 to have some resemblance to that of the pig ; the 

 lower jaw is compressed, and opens wide, having 

 under its symphysis two pores, and a little oval 

 dimple : their teeth are even ; those parts of the lower 

 jaw, which are drawn in when the mouth shuts, are 

 generally of a bright red, from which they derive their 

 name l . Their dorsal is a little emarginated ; the 

 soft part of it is scaly. They all come from America 2 . 



Pristipoma, Cuv. 

 Have the same preoperculum, the same pores under 



1 From al/ia, blood, and ovXov, gums. 



2 Hcem. elegans, C, or Anlhias jormosus, Bl. 323. Hcem. jor- 

 mosum, C, or Perca furmosa, Lin., which is not the same as the pre- 

 ceding one, Catesb. IT. vi. 1. ; but it is the Labre plumierien, Lacep. 

 III. ii. 2. , and the Guatbi coara of Margr. p. 163., of which the 

 drawing is transposed, and placed under the article of the Capenna, 

 p. 155. Hcem. heterodon, or striped diabase, Desmar., Diet, class. 

 d'Hist. Nat. Hcem. caudimacula,C, or uribaco, Margr. 177. ; and 

 Diabase of Parra, Desm. loc. cit. Hcem. capenna, or Capenna, 

 Margr. 155., and the fig. p. 163. at the article of the Guaibi coara. 

 It is the Grammlst. trivittatus, Bl. Schn. 188 ; Hcem. chrysopterum, 

 Cuv., or Perca chrysoptera, L., Catesb. II. ii. 1., and many other 

 species described in our fifth volume. 



