136 CLASS XIV. 



Gompkosus Lac. Head naked, narrowed anteriorly, with 

 mouth small, terminal. Maxillary teeth in a single row, the two 

 middle above and below larger. Lateral line continuous. Caudal 

 fin truncate or lunate. 



Sp. Gojnphosus cepecUanus Quot et Gaimaed, Voyage de Feeycinet, ZooL 

 PI- 5Sj fig- 2, Cuv. et Valenc. Poiss. xiv. PI. 390 ; snipe-fish, Renaed, 

 Valentijn ; from the Moluccan Archipelago and the Southern Pacific ; 

 ^Goviphosus fuscus Valenc, Lacep. Poiss. iii. PI. v. fig. 2; — Gomphosus 

 cceruleus Lacep. Poiss. 1. 1. fig. i. 



Anampses Cuv. Head naked. Only two teeth in each jaw, 

 exsert, curved outwards, the upper broader. Lateral line continuous. 

 Branchiostegous membrane with six rays. 



Sp. Anampses Cuvieri Qvor et Gaim., Voyage de Feeycinet, PL 55, fig. i. 

 South Pacific; — Anampses geogo-aphicus Valenc, Cuv. etYAL. Poiss. xiv. 

 PI. 389, from the Indian Ocean, at Celebes, &c. All the species are from 

 the eastern hemisphere, but some from the Red Sea. 



JuUs Cuv. Head naked. Maxillary teeth subulate, two or four 

 middle above and below larger ; lesser teeth in second row. Lateral 

 line continuous, abruptly geniculate. Branchiostegous membrane 

 with six rays. (Scales in some species small. Colours variegated, 

 lively.) 



Sp. Julis vulgaris Valenc, Lahrus julis L., Bloch IcTith. Tab. 387, fig. i, 

 Cuv. et Val. Poiss. xili. PI. 384 ; from the Mediterranean Sea ; — Julis 

 hortulanus Valenc, Lahrus centiquadrus Lac Poiss. in. PI, 29, fig. 2 ; 

 East Indies, at the Sunda Islands; — Jidis tewa.?'?s Valenc, Lahrus lunaris 

 L., Gronov. Zoophyl. i. Tab. vi. fig. 2, Lahrus zeylanicus Pennant, Indian 

 Zoology, London, 1790, Tab. xvi. fig. 2, Scarus Galliis Foesk. ; Red Sea, 

 Indian Ocean, &c. 



Most of the species of this numerous genus, (about 100 are known), 

 ■which well deserves and requires a monograph, are from the Indian Ocean ; 

 there are, however, also some species from the western hemisphere. 



"H" Lower Pharyngeal hones two, separate. (Order of Acanihopteri 



MUELL.). 



Family XXXI. Aulostomi (s. Fistulares). Body in some 

 covered with scales denticulate on the posterior margin, in some 

 with scaleless skin. Ventral fins placed in abdomen behind pec- 

 toral fins. Head elongated into a cylindric snout. Jaws at the 

 apex of snout. Dorsal fin remote. 



