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name of Scyllium cirratum will of course be used, M. Cuvier also 
refers the Squale pointillé of Lacépéde. Such an association would have 
been impossible to any one who did not enjoy the opportunity of ex- 
amining the specimen described and figured by M. Lacépéde, The 
words of that authour, at variance even with his figure, are diametrically 
opposed in every particular, except the relative position of the fins, to 
the appearances exhibited by perfect specimens of the fish, which, 
according to M. Cuvier, formed the subject of his description. 
5. Is the Zygena Malleus of M. Valenciennes, to whom we are 
indebted for an excellent Monograph of the genus, published in the 
Memoires du Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle. M. Valenciennes has pointed 
out four well defined species, which he has carefully described, He 
has also given representations of the upper and under surfaces of the 
head in each species. We have therefore here a standard production 
to which recourse may be had. In the Zyg. Malleus the head 
is more produced on the sides than in the other species; its front is 
nearly straight, with a notch on each side near the nostrils; and the 
nostrils are situated very near the outer angle of the head. M. Valen- 
ciennes mentions as its habitats, the coasts of France, the Mediterranean, 
and Brasil; to these may now be added the West Indian Seas. 
8. is the Serranus Ouatalibi, Cuv. and Val., recently described in the 
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, II, 381. It was figured by Parra, t. v. 
f. 2, and with f. 1. of the same plate, constituted in Schneider’s System 
aspecies of Bodianus, under the name of Guativere. The fish repre- 
sentedinthe latter figure, is distinguished by MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes 
as the Serranus Guativere, solely on the authority of Parra, no speci- 
men of it having yet reached them. 
9. isthe Belone Carribea of M. Le Sueur, by whom it and several 
other species were first distinguished from the common European Belone, 
in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ii. 
127. It is known by the equality of its mandibles; the greater prolon- 
gation backwards of its dorsal than of its anal fin ; the greater length of 
the lower lobe of its caudal fin; the flattened form of some of the rays 
of the fins; and several other peculiarities which distinguish it from 
the rest of the genus. 
10. Notwithstanding the assistance afforded to us by M. Le Sueur, in 
