54 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



XLVII. VOLTA, Ichthyolithologia Veronensis, 1796. 



Serafino Volta. 



Blochius Volta, 53; type Blochius longirostris Volta (Family 

 Blochiid^, fossil). 



XLVIII. LACEPEDE, siir le Polyodon feuille: Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom., 



1797. 

 Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville-sur-Illon Comte de 



Lacepede. 



The name of this author should be written Lacepede. Sherborne, Index Ani- 

 malium, says: "A letter dated 1831 is signed 'b. g. e cte. de Lacepede.' This spell- 

 ing and accentuation should be adhered to." 

 Polyodon Lacepede, 49 ; type Polyodon folium Lacepede. 



Monotypic. 



XLIX. CUVIER, Tableau £lementaire, 1798. 



Georges Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Cuvier. 



Mela Cuvier, 323 ; type Diodon mola L. 



Equivalent to Mola Koelreuter. Prior to Orthagoriscus Bloch & Schneider, 

 1801. Monotypic. 



Muraenophis Cuvier, 329 ; type Mur^na helena L. 

 A synonym of Mur>ena L. 



L. GEOFFROY SAINT HILAIRE, Description d'un nouveau Genre 

 de Poisson: Bull. Soc. Sci. Philom., Ill, "An X de la Repub- 

 lique," 1798. 



fixiENNE GeOFFROY SaINT I llLAIRK. 



Polypterus St. Hilaire, 97; type Polypterus bichir St. Hilaire. 

 Monotypic. 



LL RETZIUS, Lampris, En ny Fiskslagt Beskriven: Vet. Acad. Nya 

 Handl., Stockholm, XX, 1799. 



A. J. Retzius. 

 Lampris Retzius, 91 ; type Zicus guttatus Briinnich = Zeus regius 

 Bonnaterre. 



