410 SCOMHRIDJi:. 



4. Brama longipinuis. 



Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 82. 



B. 7. D. 3^. A. ^. L. lat. 41-45. 



The height of the body, at the origin of the dorsal and anal fins, 

 is contained twice and one-fifth in the total length ; the scales pos- 

 teriorly, towards the tail, p^o^•ided vrith a hook, which is du'ected 

 forwards; dorsal and anal fins anteriorly produced and falciform. 

 (Loive.) 



Sea of Madeira. — The single individual observed measured 18| 

 inches in length. 



23. TARACTES. 



Taractes, Lotce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 82; 

 Body ovate and compressed, covered with large scales, which ai'e 

 provided with a hook directed backwards ; snout very short, cleft of 

 the mouth subvertical. Dorsal and anal fins broad, Avith all the rays 

 articulated ; caudal rounded ; ventrals subjugular. The jaws •with 

 an outer series of stronger teeth ; teeth on the vomer and on the 

 palatine bones. Pra^operculum with strong spines ; sub- and inter- 

 operculum denticulated. Branchiostegals seven. 

 Sea of Madeira. 



1. Taractes asper. 

 Loive, I. c. p. 83. 



D. 33. A. 23. Y. 1/5. L. lat. 43. 



Plain-coloured. (Loive.) 

 Sea of Madeira. 



24. PTERACLIS*. 



Pteraclis, Gronov. Act. Helvet. vii. p. 44 ; Cur. <§■ Val. ix. p. 359. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered vni\). scales of moderate size ; 

 snout obtuse, convex, compressed ; cleft of the mouth wide, oblique ; 

 eye large. Dorsal elevated, extending from the forehead to the 

 caudal, and composed of filiform, uuarticidated spines ; anal similar 

 to the dorsal in form and structure. Yentrals jugular, formed by 

 four (six) slender rays. Small teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and 

 the palatine bones. Branchiostegals seven ; pseudobranchiaj ; air- 

 bladder very small. Pyloric appendages in small number. 



Indian Ocean ; coast of Carolina ; Sea of Madeira. 



1. Pteraclis papilio. 

 Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 83. 



D. 35 I 0. A. 35. V. 6. 



The height of the body is somewhat less than ono-fourtli of llie 

 total length ; the fourth spine of the dorsal fin a?i the second d tli( 



* 1 rteraclis tnchipt<Tiii', Cut: V ?'«/. ix p. K7.~-I{(i>>. ? 



