84 Dr. Bancroft on some Animals of Jamaica. 
you will find the curious membranaceous coverings of its upper and lower 
lip; as I could detect nothing like teeth in the fish (notwithstanding the 
** dents menues, serrées en quinconce’’ assigned by Cuvier to his sub- 
genus Pastenague) I regard the hard granulations on them as its substitutes 
for teeth, 
8. A fish (about nine inches long) called here Butter-fish, but not 
noticed by Brown, nor described by any Ichthyologist, so far as I can 
discover, It falls under Cuvier’s sub-genus Serranus of the Percoid 
family. I wish it may preserve a portion of its colours, which, particu- 
larly over the head, opercuda, and middle of the body, are of a full 
bright scarlet, changing into a rose-colour over the abdomen. Its con- 
trast with the black dots, especially with those of them that are ocellated, 
give ita very handsome, alniost splendid, appearance. 
9. A specimen of Brown’s Gar-fish (p. 443.), which both he and 
other naturalists have chosen to refer to Hsox Belone, though it is differ- 
ent from that species, Its teeth are not black; its back not black (but 
dark green) ; the inside of the mouth not purple ; belly not flat ; dor- 
sal and anal fins very different in form from those represented in Shaw’s 
and Bonnaterre’s figures, and the caudal still moré so. Eyes also not 
round, as to iris and pupils, as in these two figures, but ovate; and there 
is a peculiarity in the form of the iris, which sends forth a rounded pro- 
cess covering a part of the upper circle of the pupil, a8 if this were 
emarginate. I consider this species therefore as almost a nondescript. 
10. A small specimen of Brown’s Piper, Esoxr Brasiliensis, in which, 
if it preserve its characters through the voyage, you will perceive two 
marked features, unnoticed by Brown, first, in the bright flame-colour 
which tips the apex of its lower jaw; and secondly, in the full-bodied 
silver stripe extending horizontally along the ‘middle of the body, from 
the operculum to the tail, one-tenth of an inch broad. 
11. A specimen of a Salmo that I cannot find described any where, 
but which has a good deal of relation to the Smelt, in its sub-semitrans- 
parency, and some of its other characters, and still more to Salmo fe- 
tens, except that its head is the reverse of ** truncated.” 
12. Aspecimen of our White Grunt, Bloch’s Anthias formosus. If 
it keep its colours, you will see how very differently it is striped from the 
representations in Shaw, Vol. IV. of Gen. Zoology, pl. 64, p. 439, and 
in other works. 
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