166 CLASS XIV. 



his Osteoffraphia Piscium, 1822, pp. 170 — 212. This fish feeds principally 

 on Cephalopods and also on Medusce. 



Mene Lacep. Body mudi compressed, with back nearly straight, 

 ahdomen convex, prominent. Teeth very small, crowded in jaws. 

 Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. Anal fin low. Ventral 

 fins with few and short rays, except the second, which is produced 

 into a long filament. Caudal fin with lobes divaricate. 



Sp. Mene maculcUa Cuv., Zeus maculatus Bl., Mene Annce Carolina Lacep. 

 Poiss. V. PI. 14, fig. 2, Bloch Syst. Ichth. Tab. 22, Schleqel Faun.Japon., 

 Pise. Tab. 67, fig. 3; in the Indian Sea and at Japan. 



Equula Cuv. Teeth in jaws mostly small, setaceous. Bran- 

 chiostegous membrane with five rays. Dorsal fin with several pun- 

 gent rays (7 — 9). Ventral fins with a strong pungent ray. Scales 

 small. Lateral line parallel to back. 



Sp. Equula insidiaivix, Zeus insidiator Bloch, Ichth. Tab. 192, figs. 2, 3 ; 

 — Equula fasciata Cuv., Mem. du Mus. i. PI. 23, fig. 2, &c. This genus 

 belongs to the eastern hemisphere and contains species from the Red Sea, 

 the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific, aU of small size. 



Family XXXIX. Squamipennes. Body compressed, mostly 

 high, covered with ctenoid scales. Teeth in jaws, sometimes also 

 in palate. Dorsal and anal fins covered with scales, mostly thick, 

 continuous with trunk. Ventral fins thoracic. 



Scaly-jmned fishes. All have a compressed body, and almost all 

 a large swimming-bladder. They are in great part fishes from the 

 tropical seas; one species alone occurs in the North Sea. 



A. Teeth in palate. Branchiostegous mevibrane ivith 7 rays. 

 Scorpis Cuv. Body oval, covered with small scales. Head 

 short, scaly. Teeth crowded in a broad band, thin in jaws, with an 

 outer row of larger, cylindrical, acute teeth. Teeth in palate-bones, 

 vomer and tongue, sharp, short, crowded. Dorsal fin with several 

 (10) short spines, tlie soft part acuminate anteriorly. Caudal fin 

 lunate. 



Sp. Scorpis (jeorgianus Gov. et Val. Poiss. viii. PI. 245, fi-om the South Sea 

 at New-Holland. 



Brama Cuv. (spec, of genus Brama Bl., Schn.). Body oval, 

 attenuated posteriorly behind the dorsal and anal fins. Head com- 

 pressed, truncato-declivous. Maxillary teeth subulate, acute, dis- 

 tant, in upper jaw with a single outer row somewhat larger ; teeth of 



