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the snout to the dorsal fins and entirely scaly; thick, hard, and 

 extensible lips, and 2 nostrils on each side, the posterior larger 

 oblongSc obliqual: the operculeis rounded with gilt shades; those 

 shades extend to the sides of the body, while the back is slight- 

 ly dark or brownish, and the upper part of the head olivaceous. 

 The iris is gilt brown and the fins are brownish, except the tho- 

 racic and pectoral, which are reddish; these last have 18 rays, 

 while the thoracic have seven, whereof the first is spiny and the 

 second mucronate. Tail with twenty rays. Anal fin narrow 

 elongate, brown tinged with reddish,and with nine rays, whereof 

 the first is spiny, very small and flat, the second is also spiny, 

 but very thick, large and triangular, the third ray is the longest 

 and the last is mucronate. The first dorsal fin is triangular and 

 broader than the second, which is very long and rounded be- 

 hind. 



This fish is either taken in the seine or with the hook and 

 line; it bites easily, and affords fine sport to the fishermen. It 

 spawns in the spring, and lays a great quantity of eggs. 

 Ill Genus. Calliurus. Painted Tail. Calliure. 



Body elongate, compressed, scaly; fore part of the head with- 

 out scales, neck and gill-covers scaly: mouth large with strong 

 teeth in both jaws, and without lips. Gill cover double, preo- 

 percule divided downwards into three curved and carinated su- 

 tures, without serrature: opercule with an acute and membra- 

 naceous appendage, before which stands a flat spine. One dor- 

 sal fin, spiny anteriorly, depressed in the middle. Anal fin 

 with spiny rays, thoracic with none, and only five soft rays. 

 Vent nearly medial. 



The generic name means fine tail. It differs principally 

 from the genus Holocentrus, by the head, scaly gill cover and 

 singular propercule: Genus 12 of my 70 New Genera of Amer- 

 ean Animals. 



5th Species. Dotted Painted tail. Calliurus Punctida- 

 ttise. Calliure pointille. 



Lower jaw longer: body olivaceous crowded with blackish 

 dotts: head brownish, flattened above: lateral line hardly curv» 

 ed upwards at the base: tail unequally bilobed, lower lobe larg- 

 er, base yellow, middle blackish, tip white: dorsal fin yellow 

 with 24 rays, of which 10 are spiny. 



