134 CLASS XIV. 



Sp. Scarus cretensis Rondel, (not Bloch), Lahrus cretensis L., Aldrovandi 

 de Piscib. p. 7, fig. 4, Gubrin Iconogr., Poiss. PI. 44, fig. 3; at one time co- 

 loured red, then blue again ; this fish lives in the eastern parts of the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea, and was highly esteemed by the ancients; — Scarus Ahildgaardi 

 Val., Scarus coccineiis, Bloch Ichth. Tab. -259, Lacep. Poiss. iii. PI. 33, fig. 

 3, from the West Indies, &c. See on this genus especially Cuv. et Valenc. 

 Poiss. Tom. XIV. pp. 132 — 284; compare also P. Bleeker Overzigt der te 

 Batavia voorhomende gladschuhhige Labroieden, Verhandelingen van het 

 Batav, Genootsch. vanKimsten en Wiitensch. xxii. Batavia, 1849, PP- 4^ — ^4- 



Callyodon Gron., (in part) Cuv. (Calliodon). Upper jaw with 

 lateral teeth remote, acute, with an inner row of smaller teeth. 



Sp. Callyodon ustus Valenc, Gronov. 3Ius. IcJith. Tab. 7, fig. 4, Cuv. et 

 Val. Poiss. PI. 405 ; — Calliodon japonicus Val., Cuv. et Val. PI. 406, and 

 better, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, Tab. 89. 



Odax Cuv. 



Epihulus Cuv. Teeth in jaws in a single row, the two inter- 

 mediate above and below larger, exsert, the rest small. Mouth 

 protractile, exsert, longer than head. Pharyngeal bones with coni- 

 cal teeth. Body comj)ressed, covered with large scales. Lateral 

 line interrupted. 



Sp. Epibulus insidiator Cuv., Sparus insidiator ,Pall. Spicil. Zool. viil. 

 pp. 41 — 44, Tab. v. fig. I, (with snout protracted), Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., 

 Poiss. PI. 88, fig. 2 ; der Betrilger, le filou; in the East Indies, at Java, 

 Sumatra and the Molucca Islands. This fish captures other fishes almost 

 in the same way that the larvae of libellulce overjjower their prey (see above 

 I. p. 421) ; it watches, without moving, until a small fish in its neighbour- 

 hood swims past, and then seizes it by very rapidly projecting the tube, at 

 the extremity of which are the jaws. The intermaxillary bones have long 

 pedicles which, when the snout is retracted, lie in grooves upon the skull, 

 and when it is extended bound the margin of the tube at the upper side. 

 The articular pieces of the lower jaw are long, and the jugal is a thin curved 

 bone whose convex margin is turned forward ; when the intermaxillary 

 bones glide forwards, the jugal also is drawn forward and causes the under 

 jaw to project. 



Cheilimis Lac, Cuv. Maxillary teeth conical; middle and 

 inferior incurved, two middle and upper small, placed between 

 two large, incurved, divaricate ; lesser teeth in second row, behind 

 the middle ones of both jaws. Pharyngeal teeth in some conical, 

 in others cylindrical or sub-globose. Scales large. Lateral line 

 interrupted. 



Sp. Cheilinus fasciatus Cvv., Sparus fasciatus BhOCS, Ichth. Tab. 257; — 

 Cheilinus trilohatus Lac, Poiss., in. PI. 3 r, fig. 2, &c. ; species from the 

 Indian and Red Seas and the Pacific Ocean. 



