252 TRACniNID.V. 



2, Pinguipes chilensis. 



Esox chilensis, ^[olina. 



Pin^juipes chik'nsis, Cav. Hf- VuL ix. p. 457 ; Jempis, Zool. Bear/lc, 



Fishes, p. 2:2 ; frat/, Hist. Chi/c, Zool. ii. p. IGo. lam. 2. f. 2 ; Cuv. 



Royne Ainin. III. Poiss. pi. 16. f. 1. 



!>• 5^,- A. 26-28. L. lat. 100. Cjec. pylor. 4. 



28-S9 '■ •' 



Vontrals thick, a little before the pectorals. Brownish, witli two 

 rows of round whitish 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. 



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



3. Pinguipes fasciatus. 

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



D. .^. A. 25. 



V^entrals thick, exactly thoracic. The height of the ])ody is 5^ in 

 tlie total Unigth. Back In-own ; on the sides are twelve dark cross- 

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



Coast of Northern Patagonia. 



17. LATILUS. 



Latilus, Cuv. ^~ VttJ. v. p. ^68. 



Body rather elongate, slightly compressed ; cleft of the moiitii 

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

 ciliated. One continuous dorsal, with four to eight spines ; 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 ; prieoperculum denticulated. 

 Six branchiostegals ; pseudobranchia). Air-bladder simple ; pyloric 

 api)endages in small number. 



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



1. Latilus argentatus. 



Coryphpena sima, Bl. Scfui. p. 2!)G. 



? Coryplia;na sinensis, Lucrp. iii. pp. 176, 209. 



ijatiliis argentatus, Cuv. Sf Vul. v. p. 369, ix. p. 495; Favn. Japon. 



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



xxvi. p. 85. 



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



The height of the body ecpials the length of the head, and is 4J in 

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



