262 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



chestnut-brown fish, taken by thousands in the Medi- 

 terranean. 



C. niloticus ; Lab. niloticus, Hasselq. 346., Sonnini, 

 pi. xxvii. f. 1. ; the white or Egyptian coracinus of the 

 ancients. Found in the Nile ; it is two feet long, 

 and is considered the best fish of Egypt '. 



Cychla, Bl. Schn. 



Teeth small and crowded, forming a broad band, and 

 differing from chromis in this as well as in the greater 

 elongation of the body 2 . 



1 Add Labrus pimctatus, Bl. 295. 1. Labre Jilamenteux, Lacep. 

 III. xviii. 2. Lab. 15-epincs, Id. ib. xxv. 1. Spams Surinamensis, 

 Bl. 277. 2. Chcetodon suratensis, Bl. 217? Pcrca bimaculata, 

 310. 1. 



2 I strike out many species from the genus Cychla as constituted 

 by Bloch, but I leave there, C. saxatilis, Bl. 309. C. ocellaris, Bl. 

 Schn. pi. lxvi. C. argus, Valenc. App. Humb. Obs. Zool. torn. ii. 

 p. 109. ; perhaps the C. Brasiliensis, Bl. 310. 2., and new species. 

 But the C. erythrura, Bl. 2G1., and the C. argyrea are Gerres; 

 the C, cutting a Gesio ; the C. brama a Cantharus ; the C. ma- 

 crophthalma, Bl. 268., the C. Japonica, Id. 277. 1., the C.cynodon, 

 Id. 278. 1., belong to Dentex ; the C. Surinamensis, Id. 277. 2., 

 and the C. bimaculata, Id. 310. 1., to Chromis; the C. guttata, Bl. 

 312., the C. maculata, Id. 313., the C. punctata, Id. 314., to Ser- 

 ranus, or, according to the system of Bloch, to Bodianus. The C. 

 pelagica is the Caranxomore of Lacep., or the Coryphcena pelagica, 

 L. It is easily seen that Bloch was quite as unfortunate in the 

 construction of his genus Cychla, as in that of Grammistes. 



The Hiatulce woidd be labri without an anal fin ; but a single 

 species, however, is quoted (from Carolina), and that merely from a 



