198 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Blepharis, Cuv. 



Have long filaments to their second dorsal and to 

 their anal. Their ventrals are very much prolonged, 

 and the spines of the first are short, and scarcely 

 pierce the skin ' ; their body is raised ; their profile 

 has only the ordinary degree of inclination. 



Gallus, Cuv. 



The profile more vertical than in blepharis, but all the 

 other characters similar 2 . 



Argyreiosus, Cuv. 



The profile still more elevated ; the first dorsal de- 

 cidedly marked, and some of its rays prolonged into 

 filaments, like those of the second ; their ventrals are 

 also much more lengthened 3 . 



Vomer, properly so called. 

 The body is compressed, and the profile vertical, as 



1 Zeus ciliaris, Bl. 196. Zeus sutor, Cuv., the Cordonnier of 

 Martinique. 



2 Zeus gallus, L., BL, or Gurrah-parah, Russ. 57. Chewoola- 

 parah, Id. 58. 



3 Zeus vomer, Mus., Ad. Fred. xxxi. 9. and better, Bl. 93. 2. or 

 Abacatuia, Marcgr. 161. Zeus rostratus, Mitch, op. cit. ii. 1. 

 N. B. The Zeus niger, B]., Schn., is founded on a mistake ; a figure 

 of the Abacatuia, in the work of Marcgrave, p. 145, having been 

 placed next to the description of the Guaperva, or Chcetodon arcuatus. 

 The Selene argenlee, Lacep. IV. ix. 2. is an Abacatuia, whose first 

 dorsal and ventrals had been worn. His Selene quadrangulaire, is 

 the Chcet. faber. 



