184 SAURUS FCETENS. 



SAUEUS FCETENS. — Linnceus. 



Plate XXVI. Fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. Head short, broad behind, vertex canaliculated, snout 

 pomted ; mouth large ; fauces and branchial rays sulphur-coloured ; body elon- 

 gated, sub-cylindrical, mottled, olive-brown above, belly white. D. 11. P. 18. 

 V. 1-5. A. 10. C. 24. 



Synontmes. Salmo fcEtens, Lin., Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 513. 



Saurus ex cinereo nigrescens, Cates., Carol., &c., vol. ii. pi.' 2, fig. 2. 

 Salmo fastens, Gmel., Ed. Syst. Nat., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1385. 

 Salmo fcBtens, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. v. part i. p. 67. 

 Osmerus albidus, Lacep., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. v. p. 235. 

 Saurus fcEtens, Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. xx. p. 471. 

 Providence Whiting, Vulgo. 



Description. The head is broad, and triangular if seen from above, with the 

 snout pointed ; the vertex is depressed, and even concave between the orbits, which 

 are very prominent. The eye is of moderate size, and is placed one diameter and 

 a half of the orbit from the snout, and three diameters and a half from the opercle ; 

 it is midway between the anterior and posterior extremities of the upper jaw, with 

 its lower border rather above the median plane of the head. The nostrils are near 

 the orbit ; the posterior and larger is sub-round. 



The mouth is of great size, the extremity of the upper jaw extending more than 

 half the distance between the snout and posterior border of the opercle ; the lower 

 jaw is shorter than the upper, and smaller, so that it is everywhere received within 

 it, when the mouth is shut, so as to leave the teeth of the latter exposed. The 

 upper jaw is armed with numerous strong, pointed, conical teeth, placed in two or 

 three rows ; the lower is furnished with a broad group of similar teeth, placed in 

 several series, and of these teeth those of the internal row are largest. The palate- 



