BOAU-1-ISH. 



169 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



SCOMBERID^. 



THE BOAR-FISH. 



Capros Aper. Lacepeue. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. 1829, t. ii. p. 21 1. 



Aper Hundeletii, Wili.ighby, p. 296, p. T. iv. fig. 4. 



Zeus Aper, Linn.^-.us. 



Perca pusilla, Brunnich, p. 62, sp. 79. 



Capros Aper, llisso, t. iii. p. 380. sp. 296. 



,, ,, Proceedings Zool. Sec. 1833, p. 114. 



Generic Characters. — Body oval, compressed; two dorsal fins; no spines 

 at the base of the dorsal or anal fins; scales on the body small, adherent, 

 ciliated ; mouth capable of protrusion ; teeth small, numerous ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6. 



A SPECIMEN of the Capros Aper of authors having been 

 taken in Mount's Bay, in October 1825, and a notice of the 

 occurrence forwarded to the Zoological Society, with a draw- 

 ing and description, by Dr. Henry Boas, a figure and a 

 short account of the species necessarily belong to a History 

 of British Fishes. Its rieht to rank anion? them is con- 



