PISCES. 159 



Indian Sea at Java, &c. (According to a communication of Dr P. Bleeker, 

 ventral fins are present in young individuals of this species, and it is upon 

 such that the genus Apolectus Cuv. et Val. Poiss.\iii. PI. 338, is founded.) 



Luvarus E.AFIN., Proctostegus Nakdo. 



Sp. Luvarus imperialis Eafin. ; from the Mediterranean Sea. 



Note.— This fish is unknown to me: is this its place? Teeth none. 

 Branchiostegous membrane with 3 or 4 rays. Body scaleless. Anus 

 covered by an osseous scale. Ventral fins none. Authors say that it is 

 alUed to the genus of the Stromatei. Comp. Eafinesque, Schmalz Caratteri 

 di alcuni nuovi generi, &c. Palermo, 18 ro, 8vo, p. 22 ; and J. D. Naedo 

 -De Proctostego novo Piscium genere Specimen, Patavii, 1827, 4to. 



Seriola Cuv., Micropteryx Agass. Body compressed, covered 



with small scales. Teeth minute, thin, crowded in jaws, vomer 



and palate-bones. Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. 



Ventral fins thoracic. Dorsal fins two, the anterior aculeate, 



shorter. Aculeus incumbent in front of the anterior dorsal fin; 



two aculei in front of anal fin. 



Sp. Seriola cosmopolita Cuv., Scomber chloris Bl. IchtJt. Tab. 339, Spix Pise. 

 Brasiliens. Tab. 59, Gov. et Val. Poiss. ix. PI. 259 ; in the Atlantic, 

 on the coasts both of America and Africa, and in the Indian Ocean. 



Temnodon Cuv. (Characters almost of the preceding genus, 

 but jaws with front row of teeth acute, flat, distant.) 



Sp. Temnodon saltator Cuv., Gasterosteus saliatrix L., Pomatomtis Skib Lac, 

 Poiss. IV. PI. 8, fig. 3, (also under the name of Cheilodipterus heptacanthus, 

 figured in the same work. III. PI. 21, fig. 3, according to Commerson) 

 Cuv. R. Ani., dd. ill., Poiss. PL 56, fig. 3; this species lives in almost the 

 whole ocean, and also in the eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea. 



Lactarius Cuv., Valenc. 



Sp. Lactarius delicatulus Valenc, Scomher lactarius Bl., Schn. 



Nomeus Cuv. Body elongate, covered with very small scales. 

 Teeth subincurved, distant, in a single row in jaws, in vomer and 

 palate-bones. Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. Ven- 

 tral fins thoracic, large, broad, concrete at the inner margin. 

 Dorsal fins two. 



Sp. Nomeus Mauritii Cuv., Gohius Gronovii Gil., Eleotris Mauritii Bloch, 

 Schn., Gohiomorus Gronovii Lac, Marcgr, Hist. Nat. Brasil, jp. 153^; 

 — Nomeus Peronii Cuv., Guerin Iconogr., Poiss. PI, 31, fig. i. 



^ Maecgraf does not, as is stated by Lacepkde and others, name this fish 

 Harder, but only says, piscis figura similis illi, quern vulgo Harder appellamtis. 



