104 CLASS XIV. 



Odontostomua Cocco. Upper teeth in intermaxillary bone small, 

 recurved, lower teeth elongate, acuminate, mobile. Palate armed 

 with long teeth. Branchiostegous membrane with 8 rays. 



Sp. Odontostomus hyalinus Cocoo, BONAP. Faun. Ital. in. PL 120, fig. 6; 

 this species appears to have no scales ; it becomes 5" long, and lives in the 

 Medit. Sea. 



Saurus Cuv. (and Saurida VALENC.). Teeth subulate, crowded 

 in jaws, in several rows, the internal longer ; in tongue and palate 

 teeth acute, numerous. Branchiostegous membrane with sixteen 

 rays, or more 1 . 



Sp. Saurus fcetens VALENC., Salmo fastens L., Encycl. meih. Poiss. PI. 70, 

 fig. 285 (copied from the figure of CATESBY) ; Saurida nebulosa VALENC., 

 Poiss. xxn. PI. 643, &c. 



Aulopus Cuv. Teeth small, acute in maxillae, palate, vomer 

 and tongue. Ventral fins placed almost under pectoral. Scales 

 large. Eyes large. Branchiostegous membrane with 10 16 rays. 



a) Branchiostegous membrane with 16 rays. 



Sp. A ulopus filamentosus, Salmo filamentosus BLOCH, Sckriften der Gesellsch. 



naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, x. 1792, s. 424, Tab. ix. fig. 2, BONAP. Faun. 



Ital. in. Tab. 121, fig. I ; in the male three rays of the dorsal fin are much 



elongated ; the margin of the scales is as though haired with fine spines. 



&** In the Medit. Sea. 



b) Branchiostegous membrane with 10 rays. 



Sp. Aulopus Agassizi VALENC., Chlorophthalmus Agasdzi BONAP. Faun. 

 Ital. in. Tab. 121, fig. 2; also in the Mediter. Sea. 



Paralepis Cuv., RiSSO. Teeth very small in intermaxillary 

 bone, teeth of lower jaw and palate subulate, acuminate, larger, 

 with smaller interposed. Branchiostegous membrane with seven 

 rays. First dorsal fin remote. Body elongate, scaly. 



Sp. Paralepis c&regonoides RISSO, Cuv. et VAL. Poiss. in. PI. 67, GUERIN 

 Iconogr.y Poiss. PL X. fig. 3, from the Medit. Sea. With this is nearly 

 allied Paralepis borealis REINH., Konigl. DansTce Videnskabernes Selskabs 

 Afhandl. vn. 1838, pp. 115, 125, 126, from Greenland and Iceland. RISSO 

 referred this genus first to the Salmonidce, CUVIER afterwards to the Acan- 

 thopterygii close to Sphyrcena; REINHARDT again assigned it a place 



1 VALENCIENNES found the extraordinarily large number of 25 branchial rays in 

 Sauru Ophiodon. 



