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tatory bladder. A good fish, but it has latterly become rare on 

 the coast of Europe.(l) 



Otolithus, Cuv. 



Anal spines, as in the preceding, weak, and no cirri; some of the 

 teeth are elongated hooks or true canini; the natatory bladder has 

 a horn on each side which is directed forwards.' They are found in 

 America and India. (2) 



Ancylodon. 



A sort of Otolithus with a very short muzzle, excessively long 

 canini and a pointed tail. (3) 



CORVINA, Cuv. 



Neither canini nor cirri; all the teeth small and crowded. They 

 also differ from the Sciaenae and the Otolithus in the size and 

 strength of the second anal spine. One species is very abundant in 

 the Mediterranean. 



Sc. nigra, Gm.; Corb noir; Bl. 297. A silvery brown; ven- 

 trals and anal, black. (4) 



JOHNIUS, Bl. 



The fishes of this subdivision are connected with those of the 

 preceding one by a nearly uninterrupted series, the second anal 

 spine is merely somewhat weaker and shorter than the subsequent 

 soft rays. They are found in India where they form a considerable 



(1) Artedi having confounded it with the Sciaena nigra, it is only latterly that it 

 has been again determined. See my Memoir upon this Fish in the Mem. du Mus. 

 tome I, p. 1; Add the Maigredu Cap, or Labre holoUpidotc, Lacep. Ill, xxi, 2; 

 Xh&Maigre brule, which is the Ferca ocellata, L., or Centropome oeille, Lacep., the 

 Scisena imberbis of Mitchill, and the Luijan triangle, Lacep., Ill, xxiv, 3. 



(2) Ot. ruber, Cuv., or the PecAe j9e?reofPondichery; /oAmwsrwier, Bl., Schn., 

 p. 17; Ot. versicolor, Cuv., liussel, II, cix; Ot. regalis, Cuv., Johiiiusregalis, 

 Bl., Schn-, or Labrus squeteague, Mitchill, Ann. New York Lye. I, ii, 6; Ot. rhom- 

 bo'idalis, or Lutjan de Cayenne, Lacep., IV, p. 245; Ot. striatus, Cuv., or Guatu- 

 cupa, Marcgr., Braz., 177, and several others described in our fifth vol. 



(3) Lonchurus ancylodon, BL, Schn., XXV. 



(4) Add, Corv. miles, Cuv., or Telia hatcheke, Russ. 117; C. trispinosa, Cuv., 

 ov Bodianxisstellifer, Bl. 331, 1; C.oscu/a.Lesueur, Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. Nov. 1822; 

 Bola ciija, Buchan. pi. xii, f. 27; C. furcrxa, Cuv., Lacep., IV, p. 424; and Bola 

 co't'tor, Buchan. XXVII, 24; Bodianus argyroleucus, Mitch. Ann. New York Lye. I, 

 vi, 3. 



