CLASS PISCES. 197 



the second dorsal and the anal, that I had named 



ClTULiE \ 



We thus pass, by degrees, to fishes which may be 

 united under the common name of 



Vomer, 



And which are more and more compressed and raised, 

 in which the armature of the lateral line is succes- 

 sively weakened, whose skin becomes fine, satiny, and 

 without apparent scales, which have only small, even 

 teeth, and which are distinguished among themselves 

 by the different elongations of some of their fins. 



Linnaeus and Bloch ranged them in the genus 

 Zeus, but with little propriety. We divide them as 

 follows : 



Olistus, Cuv. 



Differ from the citulae, inasmuch as the middle rays 

 of their second dorsal are not branched, but only arti- 

 culated, and that they are prolonged into long fila- 

 ments 2 . 



SCYRIS, CUV. 



Have the same filaments, and pretty nearly the same 

 form, but the spines which should form their first 

 dorsal are entirely concealed in the edge of the se- 

 cond ; the ventrals are short 3 . 



1 Tcharvil-parah, Russell 151 ; Mais-parah, id. 152. 

 species is new. 

 The Gal d'Alexandrie, Geoff'., Eg., Poiss. xxii. 2. 



3 The 



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