496 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 



PL punctatus, Bl. 189., PL Icevis, Shaw, PL hirtus, 

 Zool. Dan. pi. ciii. Kitt of the English, Penn. pi. xli., 

 Ray, Synon. pi. i. f. 1., Duham. Sect. ix. pi. v. f. 4. 

 is much more rare on our coasts. Oval, like the 

 brill : it has no stripes to its rays ; its scales are 

 rough, its teeth very fine, its cheek furnished with 

 very close and even teeth, and it has spots and black 

 points on a brown ground l . 



PL cardina, Cuv., Duham. Sect. ix. pi. vi. f. 5. and 

 Ray. 170. pi. i. No. 2., Whiff of the English 2 . Is 

 altogether oblong ; its first rays are free, but simple ; 

 its teeth very close and even. It has spots partly 

 white and partly blackish thrown upon a brown 

 ground. It is also taken on our coasts of the channel, 

 but rarely. 



In the Mediterranean is a species some inches long, 

 whose large and thin scales fall very easily, PL nudus, 

 Risso, Arnoglossum, Rondelet 324. 



And another still smaller, quite transparent, with a 



1 T have reason to believe that the PL unimaculatus, Risso, 2nd 

 edit. f. 35., is a sexual variety of the PL punctatus. 



2 These figures, not having been engraven from a mirror, represent 

 the eyes to the right, whereas they are to the left. Bloch, by some 

 unaccountable inattention, believed that the Whiff of Ray and Pen- 

 nant was the targeur (PL punctatus), whereas this last is the kitt of 

 those authors. It is sufficient to glance at plate i. of Ray, where 

 they are both represented, to be convinced of this. Add PL triocel- 

 latus, Schn., Russel 76. ; PL maculosus, Cuv., Russel 75 ; PL aquo- 

 sus, Mitch, pi. ii. f. 3. ; PL Boscii, Riss. 1st edit. pi. viii. f. 33. ; PL 

 aramaca, Cuv., Marcg. 181., very different from PL macrolepidotus, 

 which is not from Brazil, but the Mediterranean, and with which 

 Bloch has confounded it. 



