134 CLASS XIV. 



Sp. Scarus cretensis RONDEL, (not BLOCH), Labrus cretensis L., ALDROVANDI 

 de Piscib. p. 7, fig. 4, GUERIN Iconogr., Poiss. PL 44, fig. 3; at one time co- 

 loured red, then blue again ; this fish lives in the eastern parts of the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea, and was highly esteemed by the ancients; Scarus Abildyaardi 

 VAL., Scarus coccineus, BLOCH Ichth. Tab. 259, LACEP. Pom. in. PI. 33, fig. 

 3, from the West Indies, &c. See on this genus especially Cuv. et VALENC. 

 Poiss. Tom. xiv. pp. 132 284 ; compare also P. BLEEKER Overzigt der te 

 Batavia voorkomende gladschubbige Labroieden, Verhandelingen van het 

 Batav, Genootsch. vanKunsten en Wittensch. xxn. Batavia, 1849, PP- 4 2 64. 



Callyodon GRON., (in part) Cuv. (Calliodon). Upper jaw with 

 lateral teeth remote, acute, with an inner row of smaller teeth. 



Sp. Callyodon ustus VALENC., GRONOV. Mus. Ichth. Tab. 7, fig. 4, Cuv. et 

 VAL. Pom. PL 405 ; Calliodon japonicus VAL., Cuv. et VAL. PL 406, and 

 better, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, Tab. 89. 



Odax Cuv. 



Epibulus Cuv. Teeth in jaws in a single row, the two inter- 

 mediate above and Ibelow larger, exsert, the rest small. Mouth 

 protractile, exsert, longer than head. Pharyngeal bones with coni- 

 cal teeth. Body compressed, covered with large scales. Lateral 

 line interrupted. 



Sp. Epibulus insidiator Cuv., Sparus insidiator PALL. Spicil. Zool. vin. 

 pp. 41 44, Tab. V. fig. i, (with snout protracted), Cuv. R. Ani., 6d. ill., 

 Poiss. PL 88, fig. 2 ; der Betriiger, le filou; in the East Indies, at Java, 

 Sumatra and the Molucca Islands. This fish captures other fishes almost 

 in the same way that the larvae of libellulce overpower their prey (see above 

 I. p. 421); it watches, without moving, until a small fish in its neighbour- 

 hood swims past, and then seizes it by very rapidly projecting the tube, at 

 the extremity of which are the jaws. The intermaxillary bones have long 

 pedicles which, when the snout is retracted, lie in grooves upon the skull, 

 and when it is extended bound the margin of the tube at the upper side. 

 The articular pieces of the lower jaw are long, and the jugal is a thin curved 

 bone whose convex margin is turned forward ; when the intermaxillary 

 bones glide forwards, the jugal also is drawn forward and causes the under 

 jaw to project. 



Cheilinus LAC., Cuv. Maxillary teeth conical; middle and 

 inferior incurved, two middle and upper small, placed between 

 two large, incurved, divaricate ; lesser teeth in second row, behind 

 the middle ones of both jaws. Pharyngeal teeth in some conical, 

 in others cylindrical or sub-globose. Scales large. Lateral line 

 interrupted. 



Sp. Cheilinus fasciatus Cuv., Sparus fasciatus BLOCH, Ichth. Tab. 257; 

 Cheilinus trilobatus LAC., Poiss., III. PL 31, fig. 2, &c. ; species from the 

 Indian and Ked Seas and the Pacific Ocean. 



