16. ZEtrs. 393 



Third Group. CYTTINA. 



Scomhrkhe with two distinct divisions of the dorsal fin, the spinous 

 less developed than the soft. Body elevated, covered with very 

 small or rudimentary scales, or wdth bony protuberances, 



16. ZEUS. 



Zeus, {Artedi) Cuv. Hk/ne Aniin. ; Cuv. 6f Vol. x. p. 4. 



Body much compressed and elevated ; cleft of the mouth wide. 

 Scales exceedingly small or entirely absent. Two contiguous dor- 

 sals, the first with nine or ten spines, and not much shorter than the 

 second ; the anal with three or four spines ; a series of bony plates 

 along the base of the dorsal and anal fins ; another scries on the 

 abdomen. Minute teeth in the jaws and on the vomer, none on 

 the palatine bones. Branchiostegals seven ; aii'-bladder large. 

 Pyloric appendages in exceedingly great number. 



Mediterranean ; eastern parts of the Atlantic ; Japanese and 

 Australian Seas. 



1. Zeus faber. 



Zeus s. Faber, Plin, ix. cap. 18, xxxii. cap. 11. 



Faber, Odd. Hal. v. 110; Coliim. \\ii. c. 16; Wotton,\ni. c. 181. 

 fol. 1606; Salv. p. 203; Aldrov. i. c. 25. p. 112; Jomtoti, lib. i. 

 tit. 2. cap. 1. art. 18. tab. 17. f. 1, 2. 



Citula sive Sancti Petri piscis. Paid. Jov. cap. 27. p. 98. 



Faber sive Gallus marinus, {Pundel. xi. cap. 19. p. 328] ; Gesner, 

 pp. 369, 439 ; Willughhy, p. 294. tab. S. fig. 16 ; Ray, p. 99. 



Zeus, sp. 1, Artedi, Genera, p. 50 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 311, and 

 Mus. Ichthyol. i. p. 47. 



Poule de mer, Duhamel, Peches, ii. sect. 5. p. 86. 



Doree, Pennant, Brit. Zool. ill. p. 193. pi. 41. 



Zeus faber, L. Syst. i. p. 454 ; Briinn. Pise. Massil. p. 33 ; Bl. tab. 41 ; 

 Bl. Schn. p. 94; Lacep. iv. p. 577; Donor. Brit. Fishes, i. pi. 8; Bi^so, 

 Ichth. Nice, p. 303, and Eur. Merid. iii. p. 379; 3Iartens, Reise nach 

 Venediy, ii. p. 4^35 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, i. p. 183 ; Parn. Fishes 

 Frith of Forth, p. 60 ; Cuv. ^- Val. x. p. 6 ; Cuv. Rbgne Anini. Ill, 

 Poiss. pi. 60. f. 1 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 128 ; Lowe, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. ii. p. 183 ; IFebb Sf Berth. Iks Canar. Poiss. p. 59 ; Gui- 

 chen. Fxplor. Ak/er. Poiss. p. 64. 



Zeus australis, Richards. Ichth. Ereb. ^ Tempp. 36,138. pi. 25. 11. 



Skeleton: Rusenth. Ichthiiot. Tufeln. pi. 13; Geofr. Ann. Mus. ix. 

 p. 425. pi. 29 ; Ayms. Rech. Poiss. Foss. v. p. 31. tab. B. 



D. 10 I 22. A. 4 I 21. Vert. 14/18. 



Nine, eight, or seven, occasionally ten, bony plates along the base 

 of the soft dorsal, nine along that of the anal, but none at the base 

 of the spinous dorsal; each of the plates armed with a pair of spines; 

 scapular region with a slight ridge ; prjeoperculum spineless ; a 

 series of spiny plates between the ventral and the anal. A round 

 black spot in the middle of the side. 



Mediteri'ancan ; Atlantic coasts of Em'opc ; Australian Seas. 



«. Fine specimen. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



