158 CLASS XIV. 



Maxillary and palatine teeth small, thin; maxillary in a single 

 row. (Rays of branchiostegous membrane fom- or five.) 



Sp. Astrodermus coryphanokles Bonelli, Coi-ypliwna elegans Risso, Cuv. et 

 Valenc. Poiss. IX. PI. 270, BoNAP. Faun. Ital. Tab. 170, fig. i; Mediter. 

 Sea, very rare. 



PteracUs Geonov., Oligopodiis Lacep. Body compressed, 

 covered with large broad scales emarginate posteriorly. Teeth 

 thin in jaws, vomer and palate-bones. Branchiostegous membrane 

 with seven rays. Dorsal and anal fins long, high; dorsal of the 

 length of back. Ventral fins jugular, approximate. 



Sp. PteracUs veUfera Bl., Schn., PteracUs guttatus Valenc, Coryphcena 

 veUfera Pallas, Sfk. Zool. viii. Tab. 3, fig. i, Geonov. Act. Helvet, vii. 

 Basilise, 1772, p. 43, Tab. 2; from the Indian Sea? QuoT and Gaimaed 

 brought a fish of the kind from the Strait of Mosambique, PteracUs ocel- 

 latus Valenc, Cuv. et Val. Poiss. ix. PI. 271; Bosc brought a small 

 specimen from the Atlantic Ocean at Carolina, PteracUs CaroUnus. The 

 species of this genus, of which a few specimens only are found in cabinets, 

 are however far from being sufficiently defined. 



Kurtus Bloch. Body compressed, high, with back carinate. 



Scales very small, scarcely distinguishable. Teeth very minute in 



jaws and palate. Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. 



Dorsal fin moderate, in the middle of back ; anal fin long. Ventral 



fins jugular. 



Sp. Kurtus indicus Bloch, Kurtus BlocMi Lac, Bloch Iclitli. Tab. 169, 

 Cuv. et Valenc Poiss. ix. PI. 277; from the Indian Sea, at Java, &c. 



Btromateus L. Body compressed, ovate. Teeth very minute, 

 in a single row in jaws, in palate none. Branchiostegous membrane 

 with six rays (more rarely seven). Dorsal fin opposite to anal, 

 longitudinal, with short, concealed anterior spines: both scaly. 

 Ventral fins none or small, jugular. Caudal fin large, bifid. 



a) 'With ventral fins smaU. 

 Seserinus Cuv. 



Sp. Stromateus microcJdrus, Seserinus microchirus Cuv., Rondel. De Piscih. 

 p. 287, BoNAP, Faun. Ital. Tab. 125, fig. 2; Mediterranean Sea. 



b) With ventral fins none {or obsolete in adults). 



Sub-genera: Stromateus Cuv., Rhombus Lac, Cuv. et Val. (pre- 

 viously Peprilus Cuv.). 



Sp. Stromateus fiatola L., Belon de Aquatilih. p. 153, Bonap. 1. 1. fig, i ; in 

 the Mediterranean Sea; — St romatetis niger BhOCB, Ichth. Tab. 160 (and 422), 



