THE BOGUE. 7 



to recognise and secure an English example of the spe- 

 cies. That specimen was caught at St. Mawes, in a 

 ground seine, early in October 1843, and deposited by 

 Mr. Fox in the Museum at Truro, where it is preserved, 

 stuffed, and varnished. Through the kindness of Dr. 

 Barham, Senior Physician of the Cornwall Infirmary, the 

 specimen has been lent that the subjoined description 

 might be taken of it, but the figure on the preceding page 

 is copied from one in the Histoire des Poissons, which was 

 drawn from a fresh specimen, rather than from the Truro 

 one, which has suffered mutilation in the fin-rays. 



The genera Box, Oblata, Boxaodon (Guich.), Scatharus, 

 and Crenidens, form the fourth Sparoid tribe of Cuvier, 

 and are characterized by simple, lobed or serrated, tren- 

 chant teeth set closely side by side on the edges of the 

 jaws ; sometimes with villiform teeth behind them, or 

 more often with many-crowded rows of minute teeth 

 having a villiform appearance to the naked eye, but being 

 in fact similar in form to the large incisorial ones that 

 constitute the exterior row, and destined to succeed them 

 as they wear away and drop out. In this tribe there 

 are no rounded molars on the limbs of the jaws, which, 

 consequently, are neither so strong nor so thick as in the 

 members of the first tribe, which have broad molars, that 

 necessarily require space. In accordance with the den- 

 tition the mouth of Box and its allies is small, and the 

 neat head is very unlike that of the bull-headed Chryso- 

 phrydes and Pagri. 



The Bogue, according to the Histoire des Poissons, 

 spawns twice in the year, and at these times it approaches 

 the shore in large sculls. The fishermen of Provence and 

 Nice take it in nets of a peculiar kind, named by them 

 bughiera, and to render the fishery more prosperous, they 

 adorn their boats with small figures of the Bogue cut 



