ACANTHOPTERYGII. PERCIDJE. 



TAB. IV. 



ANTHIAS SACER, Bl. 



Castanheta s. Imperador. 



The Barber. 



Char. Gen. 



Capvi squamosum : rostro brevi, utrinque ante oculos s. suborUtarium extreme antico tantura 

 nudo : maodUa utraque squamosa ; dentibus minutis, scobinato-fasciatis, quibusdam anticis majoribus, 

 caninis, instracta, PrtE-ojxrculum dentatum. Operculum subtrispiuosum. Lima lateralis postice 

 deflexa, deinde recta, continua. Pinna dorsalis continua. Alemhrami hrancJdostega septemradiata. 



Oculi magni. Pinnae dorsalis analisque spinas appendiculatae ; parte posteriore subsquamosa. 

 Pinna caudalis squamosa, lunato-forcipata, lobis in fila productis. Squamae asperae, limbo echinulato, 

 ciliato. 



Obs. — Pisces niarini, parvi, roseo flavoque plerumque laetissime colorati ; regionum calidionim 

 incolae, sublittorales. 



-Char, Spec. 



A. roseus ; capite utrinque flavo trifasciato ; dorso flavo-olivaceo vel asreo-fuscescente nebuloso, 

 seriatim submaculoso : pinna dorsali analique roseis, flavo marginatis ; illius spina tertia producta ; 

 ventralibus maximis, productis, dimidium longitudinis subaequantibus ; caudalis lobo s. filamento 

 inferiore longiore. 



D. 10 V. 11 + 15 ; A. 3 + r ; P. 2 + 16 ; V. I + 5 ; C. ! t t t vt^' 



M. B. 7 ; Sq. lin. kit. 41 ; Verta=. 10 abd. + 16 caud. = 26. 

 Anthias sacer, " Bl. pi. 315 ;" Cuv. R. Anim. ed. 2. ii. 140, 

 Serranus antkias, Cuv. and Val. ii. 250. t. 31, 

 Ailopon anthias, Risso, Hist, Nat. iii. 378. 

 " Lutjan anthias, Lacep, t. IV, p. 197 ;" Cuv. and Val. 1. c. 

 Labrus anthias, Linn. Sy^st. ed. 12, I. 174, 3, 

 Labrus totus rubescens, catula hifurca, Arted. Synon, 54, 3. 

 Attthias, primug Bonddetii, Will. Hist. Pise. 325. t. X 5, f, 5, 

 Antkics prima species. Rondel, (ed. Lugdun. 1554) 188. 



Jjmgit. = 6 — 8 poll. = 3|— 4| X alt, 



Temptis, per totum annum. 



Locus, in rupibus minus profundis ; vulgatiss. 



No less than four fishes are designated in Madeira by the common 

 name of " Castanheta ;" viz. Anthias sneer, Bl. ; Callanthias paradisceus, 

 nob,; Heliastes limbatus, Val.; and Gli/phisodon luridus, Cuv. The sim- 

 ple name is used indifferently for the first and third : but, if distinction be 



