88 FISHES. 



Roi des Rovr/ets, Cuv., Mem. du Mus. I, 336, and pi. xi, f. 2; 

 three inches long; red; a black spot on each side of the tail; is 

 found in the Mediterranean*. 



Cheilodipterus, Lacep., 



Combine all the characters of the Surmullet, dilFering only in the fangs 

 or long and pointed teeth, with which the jaws are armed. 



They inhabit the Indian seas, are small, and generally marked with 

 longitudinal streaks ■!■. 



POMATOMUS, Riss., 



Have two separate dorsals like the Surmullet, and the scales dislodged 

 with the same facility ; but the preoperculum is simply striate, the oper- 

 culum emarginate, and the eye enormous ; very small teeth, dense as the 

 pile on smooth velvet. 



Pomat. telescope, Risso; Cuv. and Val. II, xxiv. The only spe- 

 cies known ; it inhabits the Mediterranean, and is excessively rare. 



A second subdivision comprises the Percoides with two dorsal fins, and 

 long and pointed teeth mingled with those that are small and dense as the 

 pile on velvet. 



Ambassis, Commers., 



Have nearly the same form as that of the Surmullet; a double notch 

 towards the lower part of the preoperculum; the operculum terminating 

 in a point. They are distinguished from the Surmullet by tlie contiguity 

 of their two dorsals, and by a spine before the first. 



They do not perhaps strictly belong to this family, for there are no ap- 

 pendages to the pylorus. 



These are small fresh-water fishes of the East Indies, which 

 swarm in the pools and rivulets ; several of them are transparent j. 



One of them is common in a pond in the Island of Bourbon 

 where they are prepared as anchovies — Ambassis Commersonii, Cuv. 

 and Val. II, xxv§. 

 To this division belongs the 



Lucio-Perca, Cuv., 



The Sandres, called by the French Brochets-PercJies, or Perch-Pike, 



* This is the Apogon rouge, Lacep.; the Corvulus, Gesuer, p. 1273; the Amia of 

 Gronovius, Zooph. IX, 2; the Centropomus ruhens, Spinol. An. Mus. X, XXVIII, 

 2; the Dipterodon ruber, Rafin. Caratt. No. 715, &c. 1\\e Dipterodon hexacantlie, 

 Lacep. Ill, pi. iv, f. 2, and the Ostorinque fteurieu, Id. Ill, xxxii, 2, also belong to 

 this genus. For the numerous species of this genus foreign to Europe, see Cuv. 

 and Val. II, 151, et seq. 



t Cheilod. fi-vittalus, Cuv., Lacep. Ill, xxxv, 1; which is his Cheilod. raye. III, 

 p. 543, and his Cenlropome macrodon, IV, 273; — Cheilod. arabicus {Perca lineata, 

 Forsk,), Cuv. and Val. II, pi. xxiii; — Ch. 5-lineatus, lb. p. 167. 



+ Several of them are comprised by M. Ham. Buchanan among his Chandae. 



§ It is the Centropome ambasse, Lacep. IV, 273, and his Lutjan gymnocephale , 

 IV, 216, and III, pi. xxiii, f. 3. For the other species, see Cuv. and Val. II, 181, 

 et seq. 



