CLASS PISCES. 261 



Salv. 117. (razor-fish.) Red, variously striped with 

 blue. The flesh is esteemed 1 . 



Some of them have a scaly cheek 2 . Others are 

 distinguished by small scales 3 . 



Chromis 4 , Cuv. 



The lips, protractile intermaxillaries, pharyngeals, 

 dorsal filaments, and general appearance of a labrus ; 

 but the teeth of the pharynx and jaws resemble those 

 of a card, and there is a range of conical ones in front. 

 The vertical fins are filamentous, those of the belly 

 being even frequently extended into long threads : 

 the lateral line is interrupted ; the stomach forms a 

 cul-de-sac, but has no cceca. 



C. vulgaris; Sparus chromis, L., Rondel. 152. The 

 Common or Black coracinus of the ancients. A small 



1 The Coryph. Uneolata, Rafin. Caratt. 33. does not differ from 

 the novacula ; but the novacula coryphcena of Risso is nothing more 

 than the centroloplius. The Coryph. ccerulea, Bl. 176. is a scarus. 

 Add Cor. psittacus, L., Cor. lineata, L., and some new species. 



2 Coryphcena pentadactyla, Bl. 175., or Blennius maculis 5, &c. 

 Ankarstrom, Stockh. Mem. pi. iii. f. 2. Linnaeus has confounded 

 it with the five-toed fish of Nieuhof. Willugh. App. pi. viii. f. 2., 

 which is a mere pilot-fish, thereby inducing M. de Lacepede to make 

 his genus Hemipieronote of it, whose characters by no means cor- 

 respond to this Xirichthys. 



3 Rason Vecluse, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. Freycin. Zool. pi. lxv. 

 f. 1. 



Xpo/xic, xpifxiQ, XP 7"7' are Greek names of an unascertained 

 fish. 



