7. EPHIPPUS. 61 



1. Ephippus faber. 



Faber marinus, Shane, Hist. Jam. ii. p. 251. f. 4. 



Chsetodon triostegus, part., L. Syst, Nat. p. 463 ; Gm. L. p. 124(5. 



Zeus quadratus, Gm. L. Si/st. Nat. p. 1225. 



Chgetodon faber, Bl. taf. 212. f . 2 ; Br. Schi. p. 223 ; Gm. i. p. 1263 ; 



Lacep. iv. pp. 456, 482 ; Shatv, Zool. iv. p. 340. 

 Seleue quadrangularis, Lac^. iv. p. 564. 



Chfetodon o\iioxxms, Mitch. Trans. Lit. &,- Phil. Soc.N. York, i. pi. 5. f. 4. 

 Ephippus faber, Cuv. ^- Val. vii. p. £13 ; Dekay, New York Fauna, 



Fishes, p. 97. pi. 23. f. 68 ; Holhr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 108. pi. 15. f. 1. 



D. 8 I ^. A. ^. L. lat. 65. Vert. 9/14, C^c. pylor. 4. 



The third dorsal spine elongate, flexible ; the anterior portion of 

 the soft dorsal and anal produced (in adult specimens ; rounded in 

 younger ones) ; the first ray of the ventral fins elongate. Six rather 

 indistinct brownish cross-bands, the anterior of which passes the 

 eye ; adult specimens uniform. 



Atlantic coasts of the United States and of Tropical America. 



a. Adult, Guatemala. 



b, c. Half-grown, Texas, Purchased of Mr, Brandt. 



d. Half-'grown: bad state. West Indies. Purchasedof Mr, Scrivener. 



e. Adult, St, Domingo. Purchased of Mr, Cuming. 



f-q. Half-grown: skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's Collection, 

 r. Adult, North America, Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 s. Half-grown. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 

 t. Half-grown. N.America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, E.sq. 

 u, V. Half-grown : bad state. From the Ha.slar Collection. 

 w. Adult : stuffed : not good state. 



2. Ephippus gigas. 



Ephippus gigas, (Parkins.) Cuv. Rkpic Anim. ; Agass. in Spix, Getiera 

 et Spec. Pise. BrasiL p. 113. tab. 61 ; Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 121. pi. 204; 

 Dekay, Netv York Famia, Fishes] p. 99, pi. 23. f, 71 ; Holbr. lehth. 

 S. Carol, p. 105. pi, 15, f. 2. 



^•^1^- ^-Tr ^^I't-fJ, Ciec, pylor, 6. 

 This species is said to be distinguished from the preceding by the 

 extraordinary development of the occipital crest and of the anterior 

 interha3mals into thick bony masses, which peculiarity is not fouad in 

 any of the "iinerous specimens of ^9/1. /ai^r in the British Museum, 

 None of tln^se exceed the length of eight inches ; and it will require 

 a renewed examination to decide whether Benjamin Wolf was not 

 right in referring the skeleton, which he described in his dissertation 

 (Berlin, 1824), to Ephippus fahcr. 



a. InterhaDmal spine. 



3. Ephippus goreensis. 

 Cuv. <§• Val. vii. p. 125, p], 178. 



D, 7 I ^. A. i, L, lat. 40, 

 Tcs second dorsal spine elongate, flexible ; the soft dorsal and 



