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CYCHLA-LIKE CENTRARCHUS. 



Cemlrarchus cychla. 



PLATE XL 



L. Geral, Accari. Schomh. Drawings, No. 62. 



"We have placed this fish as a Centrarchus^ but ac- 

 knowledge that we have done so merely because it 

 recedes from the type of Cychla as given by Cuvier 

 and Humboldt ; as we have repeatedly had occa- 

 sion to remark, it is impossible from the drawings 

 to fix the genera with certainty, particularly when 

 they depend on some of the minute distinctions of 

 the teeth and their position, as employed through- 

 out the volumes of the " Histoire Naturelle des 

 Poissons ;" and of the present fish and that which 

 follows, the plates are given to direct attention, and 

 for the use of future travellers; for we have no 

 doubt that from the figures we have given, the fish 

 would be at once again recognised ; and from the 

 generic characters, printed from Yalenciennes, it 

 may be ascertained whether we are correct, or if 

 not, in what points they vary from them. In the 

 markings, this fish still exhibits the banding of 

 many of the Cychlce, and dark spots, but without 

 any of the ocellation so prevalent in the others; 



