252 TRACUINIDJC. 



2. Pinguipes chilensis. 



Esox chilensis, Molina. 



Pinguipes chilensis, Cui\ Sf Val. ix. p. 457 ; Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, 



Fis/ies, p. 22 ; Gay, Hid. Chile, Zool. ii. p. 165. lam. 2. f. 2 ; Cuv. 



R^gne Anitu. III. Poiss. pi. 16. f. 1. 



D. -54. A. 26-28. L. lat. 100. Caec. pylor. 4. 



28-29 '■ '' 



Ventrals thick, a little before the pectorals. Brownish, with two 

 rows of round wliitish spots on each side ; a black spot at the root 

 of the upper caudal lobe, disappearing with age ; the anterior part 

 of the dorsal blackish. 



Coast of Chile. 



a. Fine specimen. Chile. From Mr, Bridge's Collection. 



3. Pinguipes fasciatus. 

 Jenyns, I. c. p. 20. pi. 5. 



D.^. A. 25. 



Ventrals thick, exactly thoracic. The height of the body is 5^ in 

 the total length. Back brown ; on the sides are twelve dark cross- 

 bars, the alternate ones broader than the others. (Jen.) 



Coast of Northern Patagonia. 



17. LATILUS. 



Latilus, Cuv. ^ Val. v. p. 368. 



Body rather elongate, slightly compressed ; cleft of the mouth 

 horizontal, with the jaws equal ; eye lateral. Scales small, finely 

 ciliated. One continuous dorsal, with four to eight si)ines ; ventrals 

 thoracic, or somewhat in advance of the pectorals ; the lower pectoral 

 rays branched. Villiform teeth in the jaws, with canines ; none on 

 the palate. Operculum without spine ; prseoperculum denticulated. 

 Six branchiostegals ; pseudobranchiae. Air-bladder simple ; pyloric 

 appendages in small number. 



Indian Ocean and Archipelago ; East Pacific ; coast of Brazil. 



1. Latilus argentatus. 



Coryphaena sima, £1. ScJm. p. 296. 



? Coryphsena sinensis, Lacep. iii. pp. 176, 209. 



Latilus argentatus, Cuv. Sf Val. v. p. 369, ix. p. 495 ; Faun. Japoyi. 



Poiss. p. 63. pi. 28. f. 2 (not good) ; Bleek. Verh. Batcw. Genootsch. 



xxvi. p. 85. 



D. ^. A. -. L. lat. 60-65. 



14 11 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is 4| in 

 the total. Caudalis rounded ; the spinous portion of the dorsal lower 



