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mates,(l) and several species hitherto left among the Labri, 

 should be placed here. 



CoRicus, Cuv. 



All the characters of a Crenilabrus; in addition to which, the 

 mouth is nearly as protractile as that of an Epibulus. 



The species known are small, and from the Mediterranean.(2) 



We must remove the following fishes from the genus Sparus, in or- 

 der to place them near Coricus or Cheilinus. 



Epibulus, Cuv. 



Remarkable for the excessive protractility of their mouth, which 

 by a see-saw motion of their maxillaries, and the sliding forwards of 

 their intermaxillaries, instantly becomes a kind of tube. They em- 

 ploy this artifice to capture the small fry which pass within reach of 

 this singular instrument; it is also resorted to by the Corici, Zei and 

 Smares, according to the greater or less protractility of their jaws. 

 The entire body and head of an Epibulus is covered with large 

 scales, the last range of which even encroaches upon the anal and 

 caudal fins, as is the case in Cheilinus; the lateral line is similarly 

 interrupted, and, as in the latter and in I^abrus, there are two long 

 conical teeth in front of each jaw, followed by smaller bluntones; we 

 have not had an opportunity of observing those in the pharynx. 



But a single species is known; Sparus insidiator. Pal., Spic. 

 Zool. Fasc. VIII, pi. V, I, of a reddish colour. From the In- 

 dian Ocean. 



Clepticus, Cuv. 



A small cylindrical snout, which is suddenly protruded like that 

 of an Epibulus, but which is not as long as the head; the small teeth 



to twenty-eight; but all his species are not distinct, and his synonymes are 

 sometimes uncertain. His species should be compared with those of Brunnich, 

 Bloch, &c. The Lab. venosus, Brunn. ; L. fiiscus, Brunn. ; L. univiaculatus, 

 Brunn. ; Lutjanus rostratus, Bl., 254, 2, perhaps the CV. tinea, Risso; Lab. 5-ma- 

 culatus, BL, 291, 2, is the Crenil. Roissal, Risso; Lutj. bidem, Bl., 251, 1; Lab. 

 medlterraneus, Brann.; Lab. rubens, Brunn.; Lab. perca, Brunn.; Lab. spala- 

 tensis, Br.; Lab. tinea, Brunn.; Lab. occllatus, Forsk., or olivaceus, Brunn., he. 



(1) At the head of the list should be the Lutjanus verves, Bl., 255, the same as 

 liis Bodianus bodianus, 223, and as the Perro Colorado, Parra, pi. Ill, f. 1. Add, 

 Lutjanus notatus, Bl., 251, 2; L violaceus, or L. Linkii, Bl., 252; L. virescens, 

 151.254, 1; Lab. burgal, Schoepp., or L. chogset, Mitch., Ill, 2] L. chrysops, 

 Bl., 248. 



(2) The Lutjanus virideiis, and the L. Lamarkii, Riss., first edition. In the 

 second he adopts this subgenus and adds to it a Coricus rubescens. 



