30. rOOONOl'ERCA. 1(J9 



1. Polyprion cemium. 



Ampliibrion americanus, Bl. Schn. p. 205. t. 47. 



Epiriephelus oxygeneios, Bl. >Sr/i/i p 301 



Scoi-pa3na massiliensi.s Eism, Ichtlujol. Nice, p. 184 (not LacipX 



bciaena aqiula, Rosenthal, IchtJn/oiom. Tafeln.pl 10 f 1 



Idypnon cerniun,, Va/enc. Mem. da Mus. xi p. 205: 'Cur. Sf Val 



Serranus (Polypi-ium) Couchii, Ynrrdl, Brit. FMes, i. p. 12. 

 btone-Jksse, Cuuc/i, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 81. 



^- rrT2- ^-ii- Vert. 13/13. Cicc. pylor. 2. 

 The height of the body equal to the length of the head, and one- 

 third ol the total. Uniform brown ; caudalis rounded, with a whitish 

 cage. 



Mediterranean ; Madeira; coasts of Portugal, France, and England. 



a. Largo spocimon: stuffed. Plymouth. Mr. YarreU's Collection. 

 I). Adult. Mediterranean. 



c. Adult : stuffed. Sine patria. Mr. Yarrell's CoUection (Pohmrion 



couchti). ^ ''^ 



d. Adult : head, di-ied. 



30. POGONOPERCA*. 



A barbel at the lower jaw. Seven branchiostegals. All the 

 teeth viUilorm ; witliout canines ; teeth on vomer and Jalatine bones 



sere's 1^' 7'^''"'-= '}' ^'''' "^^^ ^^^'^"' '^' --1 -th .tZee 

 spines. Opercuhinispiniferous; prteoperculum denticulated. Scales 

 iniuute, imbedded in the skin. 



1. Pogonoperca ocellata. (Plate XIV. fig. A.) 



Barbel about as long as the diameter of the eye. Erownish, covered 

 aU over witli small round white dots; thi-eo or four large brown 

 blotches on the back (in dned state). 

 a. Adult: stuffed. Hab. ? 



Jli""7!T, "-^'i' speclmen.~ThG height of the body is one-fomth 

 of the total length, the length of the head is 3^ in the same The 

 upper sui-f\xc.e of the head is short and narrow, the interspace between 

 the eyes being one-ninth only of the length of the head. The snout 

 ^ short, tlie cleft of the mouth oblique, the lower jaw prominent^ 

 Iheie is a broad and well-developed barbel at the symphysis of the 

 manthbuliB; it is rather longer tlian the chameter of the eye and 

 coloured hke the body. The intermaxillary does not reach to th^ end 

 ot the maxilhu-y, and is furnished ^^{th a broad band of ^•imform 

 teeth, corresponding to a similar band in tlie lower jaw ; tlic vomeiine 

 * From nMyojv. hparil, luiil Tri-pKt], perch. 



