134 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



CXL. SERVILLE, Faune Frangaise, 1820 to 1830. 



"Livraison 24 par M. Serville" contains the fishes. This bears no 

 date, but it was probably issued about 1829. It is not quoted by Cuvier, 

 nor does it quote Cuvier. The date is not important, as no question of 

 priority is concerned. This work is commonly ascribed to Blainville, who 

 with Vieillot, Desmarest, Serville and others edited the series. In any 

 event, the work is based on Blainville's Prodrome. All of Blainville's 

 generic names ending in batus are here changed to batis. 



Audinet-Serville. 



Dasybatis Serville, 12, 1829 ("raies epineuses") ; type Raja batis L. 



Same as Raja. 

 Narcobatis (Blainville) Serville, 45 ("raies torpilles") ; type Raia 

 torpedo L. 



Same as Narcacion Klein, Torpedo Dumeril, not of Forskal. Called Narco- 

 BATUS by Blainville, 1816. 



Pristibatis Serville, 49 ("raies scies") ; type Squalus pristis L. 

 (Pristibatis antiquorum Blainville). 



CXLI. VALENCIENNES, Poissons Fossiles: Trans. Geol. Soc, III, 



1829. 



Achille Valenciennes. 



Osteolepis Valenciennes, 144; type Osteolepis macrolepidotus Valen- 

 ciennes. 



CXLII. CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Histoire Naturelle des Pois- 

 sons, Vols. V (January) and VI (July) 1830. 



Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes. 



Larimus Cuvier & Valenciennes, V, 146; type Larimus breviceps Cuv. 

 & Val. 

 Monotypic. 



Nebris Cuvier & Valenciennes, V, 149; type Nebris microps Cuv. & 

 Val. 

 Not Nebria Latreille, 1802, a genus of beetles. Monotypic. 



