194 CURIMATUS. 





We have also several species of the genus Saurum 

 remarkable for their large reptile-looking head, fur- 

 nished with numerous teeth. These are represented 

 hoth in the Brazilian Fishes and by D'Orbigny ; but 

 the genus is of more marine habits, frequenting the 

 coasts, and the mouths of the rivers, which they 

 appear to visit at certain periods, as stated of L. 

 longirostris, probably for the purpose of spawning. 



In addition to the drawings of Mr. Schomburgk, 

 one or two which were not made under his immediate 

 inspection, and for the accuracy of which he could 

 not vouch, were also put into our hands; one of 

 these, a bold uncoloured sketch, so strongly resembles 

 a fish figured by D'Orbigny, Curimatw oltusidens^ 

 that we think it right to give a figure from his 

 Plate. 



