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BLACK-BANDED POMOTIS. 



Pomotis ? fasciatus. 



PLATE XVII. 

 L. GEBAL, Acarra. Schomb. Drawings, No. 37. 



THE scaling of this fish is middle-sized, fringed, 

 elliptical, and adhesive; the lateral line divided, 

 one part arched till under the last spiny ray of 

 dorsal fin, the other beginning when that ends, and 

 moving straight to the middle of the tail ; a little 

 lower it is of a greenish brown with a broad black 

 stripe running along the middle of the body; the 

 webs of the fins are bluish, caudal fin somewhat 

 rounded ; eye large, and situate near the top of 

 the head ; iris orange ; teeth fine, and thickly set 

 in both jaws ; tongue pointed ; nostrils single, near 

 the snout ; gill-lid covered with scales, the opening 

 semilunar ; the ventral fins are placed nearly under 

 the pectorals. They take the hook, baited with small 

 fish, readily ; and are much used for food in the 

 Ixios Padauiri and Negro. The air-bag is double, 

 one half oval and the other pointed and long ; milt 

 double, half the length of the cavity of the body ; 

 ! intestines make three flexures. The appendage to 

 the gill-flap appears like a prolongation of the edge 



