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BLACK-BANDED POMOTIS. 



Pomotis ? fasdatus. 



PLATE XVIL 

 L. Geral, Acarra. ScJiomb. Draxiings, No. 37. 



The scaling of this fish is middle-sized, fringed, 

 elliptical, and adhesive; the lateral line divided, 

 one part arched till under the last spiny ray of 

 dorsal fin, the other beginning ^vhen that ends, and 

 moving straight to the middle of the tail ; a little 

 lower it is of a greenish brown with a broad black 

 stripe running along the middle of the body ; the 

 webs of the fins are bluish, caudal fin somewhat 

 rounded; eye large, and situate near the top of 

 the head ; iris orange ; teeth fine, and thickly set 

 in both jaws ; tongue pointed ; nostrils single, near 

 the snout ; gill-lid covered with scales, the opening 

 semilunar ; the ventral fins are placed nearly under 

 the pectorals. They take the hook, baited with small 

 fish, readily ; and are much used for food in the 

 rdos Padauiri and Negro. The air-bag is double, 

 one half oval and the other pointed and long ; milt 

 double, half the length of the cavity of the body ; 

 intestines make three flexures. The appendage to 

 the gill-flap appears like a prolongation of the edge 



