88 LABEID^. 



jaws conical, in double series ; no posterior canine tooth. Dorsal 

 spines numerous (17), anal spines three. Lateral line not interrupted. 

 Temperate parts of the north-western Atlantic 



1. Tautoga onitis. 



Labru3 onitis, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 478 ; L. Gm. i. p. 1290 ; £1. Schn. 



p. 2j80; Lacep. iii. p. 501. 

 Black-fish, Schocpf in Schrift. GeseUsch. Naturf. Freunde, viii. p. 156. 

 Labrus americanus, Bl. Schn. p. 201 ; Storer, Syn. p. 137. 

 Tautoga nigra, T. fusca, T. rubens, T. alia, T. ccerulea, Mitch. Report 



Fish. New York, 1«14, p. 23. 

 Labrus tautoga, Mitch, in Lit. 8f Phil. Trans. NewYork, i. p. 398. pi. 3. f. 1. 

 Tautoga nigra, Cuv. Sf Vol. xiii. p. 293 ; Dekay, Netv York Fauna, 



Fishes, p. 175. pi. 14. fig. 39. 



B. 5. D. 1^. A. -i. L. lat. 60. L. transv. 16/35. Vert. 16/18. 



Nearly uniform brownish or blackish. 



Atlantic coasts of the Northern States of North America. 



a. Fine specimen. Boston. Presented by B. Winstone, Esq. 

 6. Half-grown. New York. 



c~d. Young. Beesley's Poiut. Presented by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 

 e. Adult. North America. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 

 /. Half-grown. Old Collection. 

 g. Half-gro^vn: skin. 



5. MALACOPTERUS. 



Malapterus, Cuv. 4" ^«^- xiii. p. 355. 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 

 imbricate scales on the cheek ; operculum with a series of scales along 

 the lower margin, the rest of the opercular apparatus being naked. 

 Teeth in the jaws conical, in a single series ; no posterior canine 

 tooth. Dorsal spines numerous (18) ; anal rather long, with three 

 spines ; the spines are feeble and flexible. Lateral line not interrupted. 



Coast of Chile. 



1. Malacopterus reticulatus. 

 Cuv. <§• Vdl. xiii. p. 355. pi. 383 (not good) ; Gay, Hist. diil. Zool. ii.p. 301. 

 D. IJ. A. ^. L. lat. 37. L. transv. 3/11. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length. Brownish. 

 Island of Juan Fernandez. 



6. CTENOLABRUS*. 



Ctenolabrus, Cxcv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 223. 

 Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 



* 1. Labrus cinereus, Pall. Faun. Boss.- As. iii. p. 267. — Ctenolabrus cinereue, 

 Cuv. ^ Val. xiii. p. 234.— Black Sea. 

 2. Ctenolabrus acutus, Cuv. # Fal. xiii. p. 235. — Mediterranean. 



