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inferior rays of the pectorals simple and continued beyond the mem- 

 brane, as in the Cirrhites.(l) 



ScOLOPSIDES, CuV. 



The second infra-orbital dentated and terminating near the edge of the 

 orbitin a point directed backwards, which crosses another point of the 

 third infra-orbital running in a contrary direction. The body is ob- 

 long, the mouth but slightly cleft, the teeth small and crowded, and 

 the scales large. There are no pores in the jaws. From the Indian 

 ocean.(2) 



MiCROPTERUs, Lacep. 



Body oblongj three pores on each side of the symphysis; the last 

 rays of the soft part of the dorsal separated from the others and 

 forming a small particular fin; operculum entire. (3) 



Those Scienoides which have less than seven branchial rays 

 and an interrupted lateral line, form several genera of small, 

 oval fishes, prettily coloured, which may be distinguished as 

 follows by the armature of their head. They are manifestly 

 related to the genus Chastodon, and resemble, externally, se- 

 veral of our fishes with labyrinthian branchiae. 



Amphiprion, B1. Schn.(4) 



The preoperculum and the three opercular pieces dentated, the lat- 

 ter even furrowed; a single range of obtuse teeth. (5) 



(1) The Cheilod. fasce, Lacep., V, i, 1, or Cynsedus, Gronov., Zoophyl., I, x, 

 1; the Cheil. of Carmichael, or Chxtodon monodactylus. Id., Lin. Trans. XII, 

 xxiv; Chcil. carponemus, Cuv., or Cichla macroptera,, Bl, Schn., 342; Cheil. 

 zonatus, Cuv , or Labrus japonicus, Tiles., Voy. Krusenst. pi. Ixiii, f. L 



(2) Scol. kale, Cuv. named by Bloch Anthias japonicus, 325, f. 2; Jlnth. Vos- 

 meri, Bl., 321, a poor figure, and the same as the Percaaurata, Mungo Park, Lin. 

 Trans- III, 35; Jlnth. biUneatus, Bl. 325, 1; Scol. kurita, Cuv. Russel., 106; 

 Seal, lycogcnis, Cuv., or Holoc. cilie, Lacep., IV, 371; Sciaena gJmnam, Forsk, 

 and several new species. 



(3) But one species is known, the Microptere Dohmieu, Lacep., IV, iii, 3. We 

 have also some few more subgenera of this subdivision, which we shall speak 

 of in our 5th vol. 



(4) I greatly reduce tlie number of species of this genus, as composed by Bloch. 



(5) Amph. ephippium, Bl., 250, 2; Imph. bifasciatus, Bl., 316, 2; Amph. 

 polymnus, Bl., 316, 1; percula, Cuv., or i/u^'./jercAof, Lacep., IV, 239, Klein., 

 Misc., IV, xi, 8;-~A.mph. kucurus, Cuv.>Renard, VI, 49, and various new species. 



