^^^ PISCES. 



last rays of the dorsal and anal are detached, forming spurious fins 

 as in the Mackerel. 



One of them is taken in the Mediterranean, the ScomhrSsoce 

 camperien, Lac. V, vi, 3,- Esox saurus, Bl., Schn., pi. 78, 2; 

 &ains mans, Rafin., Nuov., Gen., IX, 1.(1) 



Hemiramphus, Cuv. 

 _ The edge of the upper jaw, which as well as that of the lower one 

 IS furnished with small teeth, formed by the intermaxillariesj but 

 the upper jaw is very short, and the symphysis of ihe lower one is 

 extended into a long point or semi-beak without teethj the port, fins, 

 and viscera of a Belone,- scales large and round, and a carinated 

 range of them along the belly. 



Several species are found in the seas of hot climates in both 



hemispheres^ their flesh, although oily, is agreeable to the pa- 



late. ( 2) 



ExocETus^ Lin. (3) 

 These well known, or Flying-Fishes, as they are called, are instantly 

 distinguished among the Abdominales by the excessive size of their 

 pectorals, which are sufficiently large to support them in the air for 

 a r.^y moments. Their head and body are scaly, and a longitudinal 

 range of carinated scales forms a salient line on the lower part of 



(2) Species from India: Bern. longirostris, Cuv., ov 7cuddera,C, lluss.,17SB 



^/. Cuv... Lacep., V, vu, 2;-^. Commersonii, Cuv., Lacep., V, vii, 3, or L 

 Demi-bec de Baggewaal, Ren., part II, pi. v, No. 21. ^ ' ' ' ' ' 



American species, H. brasiUensis, Cuv, ov Esox brasiUensis, Bl., S9l~H. heme 

 tus, or Esox kepsefus, Bl., Sclui., and others to be described in our Hist, des Pois' 



'N1. ^r , T ' *''^' ^ '' '^''^'"'' ^^^^- ^^*- ^'- t^l^'l-d., I, 134, et seq." 



N.K. M. de Lac. un.tes the Esox hespetus, Lin., to the ^.. marglnatus- but the 



former ,s a compound of two fishes-one, the P,-^utY/^. of MaLr., {59 rthe 



mcemdia o{ Brown Tim vr v '^ -; lo a 1 , , '^'^'^s'-' '^^> (ine 



01 isiown, jam.,XL\,o,)is an Anchovy; the other, Jmcen. Ac. I, p 



o21 appears to me to be Indeterminable, but it cannot be a Hemiramphus. 



(^) %a,.;T.c, sleeping: out, the Greek name of a fish, whicli, accordintj to the 

 ancients, came on shore to rest. It was most probably either a Goby or a Blenny 

 as imagmed by Rondelet and others. It is difficult to conjecture what could ha,^ 

 induced Arted. to associate the fishes here in question with these Blennies: Lin- 

 n.us separated them, but without altering the name of exocefus, which does not 



