212 FISHES. 



L. ; Salvian., fol. 230. (The Sea-Tench). The most common in 

 the Mediterranean ; its anterior dorsal is round, and not higher than 

 the other; ventrals about the length of the head. 



P. hlennoides, Schn.; Gad. alhidiis, Gm.; Blennius gadoides, 

 Riss. ; Gad. furcatus, Penn. ; Melius barbu, Duham. II, pi. xxv, 

 f. 4. (The Forked Hake). Another species that is also taken in 

 the Ocean ; the first dorsal is more elevated, and its first ray consi- 

 derably elongated; ventrals twice the length of its head*. 



Raniceps, Cnv., 



Have the head more depressed than that of a Phycis or of any other Cod, 

 and the anterior dorsal so extremely small, that it is lost, as it were, in the 

 thickness of the skin. From the Ocean f. 



It is impossible to avoid approximating to the Gadi the following genus, 



Macrourus, Bl. — Lepidolf.frus, Risso. 



Their suborbitals unite in front with each other, and with the bones of 

 the nose, to form a depressed snout, which projects above the mouth, and 

 beneath which the latter preserves its mobility. Tlie entire head and 

 body are invested with hard scales covered with small spines; ventrals 

 small and somewhat jugular; pectorals moderate; first dorsal short and 

 high; the second dorsal and the anal both very long, uniting in a point at 

 the caudal; only very fine and very short teeth in the jaws. They inha- 

 bit deep water, and when taken from it utter sounds similar to those pro- 

 duced by a Gristes. 



Two species are captured in the depths of the Ocean and the IMe- 

 diterranean, the Lepidol. ccelorhynchus and iranckyri/nchus of 

 Risso, Ed. I, pi. vii, f. 21 and 22 +. 



• The above characters were tixken down by nie with botli the fishes under my eye. 

 The DatrachoiJes Gmelini, Riss., Ed. I, fig. IG, does not ditilr from oirr fu-st species. 

 Add the Ennhelyopiis americunns, Schn., or Bli'tiniun chubs, Nat. of Berl. VII, 1(3, or 

 Gaifus Inngipcs, Tvlitch. I, 4. N. B. The fig. of Schn., pi. vi, is inrproperly referred 

 to the Phj/cis finca, as has been truly remarked by M. de la Roche, Ann. Mus, XIII, 

 p. 333; it is rather that of the G. lovgipes. 



f The Garlus ranimis, Mull. Zool. Dan., pi. 45. Blennhis ranimts, Gmel. Batra- 

 cho'ides hiennidides, Laccp. Phycis rmiina, El. Schn. 57; — the Gadua tri/urcalus, 

 Penn., Biit. Zool. Ill, pi. 32. Hj/cisfusca, Schn. 



X Direct comparison has satisfied me that the Lepldoleprus eator7ii/nchu.i of the 

 Mediterranean, Risso, Ed. I, pi. vii, f. 22, docs not differ in the least from the Ma- 

 crourus rupestris, Bl. 177, or Curyp)i(ena rupcstris, (hnel., Gunner, IMem. de Dronth. 

 Ill, pi. iii, f. I. On the other hand, the LepUloleprus tmchyrlninchtts, Risso, lb., 

 f. 21, is the same fish as the Oj.ycephas scnbrus, Rafin., Indie, pi 1, f. 2. The same 

 species, or one closely allied to it, is given in the Atlas of Krusenst, pi. Ix, f. 8 and 

 9. Giorna had also furnished incomplete figures of the two species, Mem. of the Ac. 

 of Turin, Vol. IX, pi. 1. The Lepiduleprus liaclujihynchtts is also the Myilkelus of 

 Aldi-ovand. Pise. p. 342. 



