82 PERCIDiE. 



20. APSILUS. 



Apsilus, C%a\ <§• Val. vi. p. 548. 



Seven branchiostegals. All the teeth villiform, without canines ; 

 teeth on the palatine bones ; tongue with minute teeth. One dorsal 

 with ten spines, the anal fin with three. No serratures or spines 

 on the bones of the skull. Scales rather small. 



Cape Verde. 



1. Apsilus fuscus. 



Cuv. 8f Val. vi. p. 549. pi. 1686. 



D. i5. A. |. L. lat. t55. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-fifth ; the diameter of the eye is 44 in the 

 latter, and 1^ in the distance from the end of the muzzle ; the 

 upper maxillary bone reaching only to the posterior half of the 

 distance mentioned. Caudal veiy deeply forked ; the dorsal spines 

 feeble, the fourth the longest. Brown ; dorsal marbled with darker. 

 (,Val.) 



Porto Praya (Cape Verde). 



21. CENTROPRISTIS*. 



Centropristes, sp., and SeiTanus, sp., Cuv. Bigne Anim. ; Cue. ^ Val. 



ii. p. 241 &c., iii.. p. 36. 

 Centropristes, Brisout de Barneville, Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 130. 

 Diplectrum and Centropristes, Holbr. Ichth. S. Carol, pp. 32, 42. 



Seven branchiostegals. Teeth viUiform, with very small canines 

 in both jaws ; teeth of the vomer in an angular band or a short tri- 

 angular patch ; teeth on the palatine bones ; tongue smooth. One 



dorsal with the formida — — ^^ — -, ; the anal fin with -^, . Oper- 



12 or minus 12 ' 7 (o) ^ 



culum spiniferous ; praeoperculum serrated, sometimes with a pro- 

 jecting rounded angle. Scales moderate or rather small. 



American parts of the Atlantic ; Mediterranean ; Japanese Sea. 



1. Centropristis bivittatus. 

 Serranus bivittatus, Cuv. 4" V<^t- ii- P- 241. 

 T) - A - 



Teeth of the angle of praeoperculum strong, and produced into a 

 small bundle ; its posterior limb very obliciuely descending back- 



* 1. Perca philadelphica, Linn. Sysi. Nat. p. 1314; Bl. Schn. p. 91.— Phila- 

 delphia. 



2. Centropristis nebulosus, Castelnau, Anim. nouv. ou rares de VAnidr. du 



Sud, Poiss. p. 5. pi. 1 . f. 4. — Kio de Janeiro. 



3. Serranus fla^escens, Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 500. — Martinique. 

 [Centropristes gigas, Owen, belongs to the genus Oligoriis.'] 



