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into an arch, falling very rapidly ; the eyes very much 

 depressed, and teeth to the palatines as well as to the 

 jaws. These are large and fine fishes, celebrated 

 among navigators for the rapidity of their swimming, 

 and the war which they carry on with the flying fish. 

 C. hippurus, L. ; sixty rays to the dorsal ; of a silvery 

 bine above, with spots of deep blue, citron yellow, 

 spotted with clear blue underneath. 



There are several approximating species in the 

 ocean confounded with this last 1 



Caranxomorus, Lacep., 



Differ from the coryphaenge proper, because their head 

 is oblong and but little elevated, and their eye in a 

 medial position 2 . 



Centrolophus, Lacep., 



The palatine teeth are wanting ; there is an interval 

 without rays between the occiput and the commence- 

 ment of the dorsal 3 . 



1 We will describe several of them in our Ichthyology, and endea- 

 vour to settle their syuonymes. 



2 Scomber pelogicus, L., Mus. Ad. Fred. xxx. f. 3. or Cychla 

 pelagica, Bl., Schn. Cor. fasciolata, Pall. Spic, Zool., Fasc. viii. 

 pi. iii. f. 2. 



3 Coryphcena jwmpilus, L., Rondel. 250. The Centrolophe 

 negre, Lacep. iv. 441. the same as the Perca nigra, Gmel. Borlasse, 

 Hist, of Cornw. pi. xxvi. f. 8. or Holocentre noir, Lacep. The Merle 

 Duham., Sect. iv. pi. vi. f. 2. 



