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1. Polyprion ceminm. 



Amphibrion americanus, Bl. Schn. p. 205. t. 47. 



Epinephelua oxygeneios, Bl. Schn. p. 301. 



Scorpsena massiliensis, Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, p. 184 (not LacSp.). 



Sciaena aquila, Rosenthal, Ichthyotorh. Tafeln, pi. 16. f. 1. 



Polyprion cemium, Valenc. Mem. du Mm. xi. p. 265; Cuv. &r Vol. 



iii. p. 21. pi. 42, viii. p. 475 ; YarreU, Brit. Fishes, i. p. 19 ; Cuv. 



Rigne Anim. III. pi. 9. f. 1. 

 Serranus (Polyprium) Couchii, YarreU, Brit. Fishes, i. p. 12. 

 Stone-Basse, Coach, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 81. 



^- rTT2- ^-W- ^^^- 13/13. Caec. pylor. 2. 



The height of the body equal to the length of the head, and one- 

 third of the total. Uniform brown ; caudalis rounded, with a whitish 

 edge. 



Mediterranean ; Madeira ; coasts of Portugal, France, and England. 



a. Large specimen : stuffed. Plymouth. Mr. Yarrell's Collection. 

 h. Adult. Medilerranean. 



c. Adult : stuffed. Sine patria. Mr. Yarrell's Collection {Polyprion 



couchii). 



d. Adult: head, dried. 



30. POGONOPERCA*. 



A barbel at the lower jaw. Seven branchiostegals. All the 

 teeth villiform ; without canines ; teeth on vomer and palatine bones. 

 Dorsal deeply notched ; the first with seven, the anal with three 

 spines. Operculum spiniferoiis ; prseoperculum denticulated. Scales 

 minute, imbedded in the skin. 



1. Pogonoperca ocellata. (Platb XIY fig- 4 ) 

 I>-7|4 A.|. 



Barbel about as long as the diameter of the eye. Brownish, covered 

 all over with small round white dots; three or four large brown 

 blotches on the back (in dried state). 



a. Adult: stuffed. Hab. ? 



Description of the specimen. — The height of the body is one-fourth 

 of the total length, the length of the head is 3^ in the same. The 

 upper surface of the head is short and narrow, the interspace between 

 the eyes being one-ninth only of the length of the head. The snout 

 is short, the cleft of the mouth oblique, the lower jaw prominent. 

 There is a broad and well- developed barbel at the symphysis of the 

 mandibulae; it is rather longer than the diameter of the eye, and 

 coloured like the body. The intermaxillary does not reach to the end 

 of the maxillary, and is furnished with a broad band of villiform 

 teeth, corresponding to a similar band in the lower jaw ; the vomerine 



* From wwywv, beard, and irepKt], perch. 



