] 40 LARGE-LIPPED CYCHLA. 



not bite in the night, hence it is called " Sunfish." 

 The body is long and nearly round ; the snout flat- 

 tened ; nostrils single ; lips fleshy ; teeth all fine, 

 in double or triple rows. Gill-covers smooth-edged 

 and scaly, opercle pointed. Eye placed near the 

 middle of the head, coloured orange and black ; air- 

 bag single, and as long as the cavity of the body." 



Of the first, or what we consider C. lahrina, the 

 following fin formula is given ; the remarks on the 

 second species may, we think, have reference to our 

 next Plate, on which there is no Number or Notes. 

 The formula of the fins of the first is, 



D. 19/14— P. 16— V. 1/5— A, 3/11— C. 16— Br. 5— Vert. 31 



