136 CLASS XIV. 



Gomphosus LAC. Head naked, narrowed anteriorly, with 

 mouth small, terminal. Maxillary teeth in a single row, the two 

 middle above and below larger. Lateral line continuous. Caudal 

 fin truncate or lunate. 



Sp. Gomphosus cepedianus QUOY et GAIMARD, Voyage de FREYCINET, Zool. 

 PI- 55> fi g- ^ Cuv - ^ VALENC. Poiss. xiv. PI. 390 ; snipe-fish, KENARD, 

 VALENTIJN ; from the Moluccan Archipelago and the Southern Pacific ; 

 Gomphosus fuscus VALENC., LACEP. Poiss. m. PI. v. fig. 2; Gomphosus 

 cceruleus LACEP. Poiss. 1. 1. fig. i. 



Anampses Cuv. Head naked. Only two teeth in each jaw, 

 exsert, curved outwards, the upper broader. Lateral line continuous. 

 Branchiostegous membrane with six rays. 



Sp. Anampses Cuvieri QUOT et GAIM., Voyage de FREYCINET, PI. 55, fig. r. 

 South Pacific; Anampses geographicus VALENC., Cuv. etVAi. Poiss. xiv. 

 PL 389, from the Indian Ocean, at Celebes, &c. All the species are from 

 the eastern hemisphere, but some from the Red Sea. 



Julia Cuv. Head naked. Maxillary teeth subulate, two or four 

 middle above and below larger; lesser teeth in second row. Lateral 

 line continuous, abruptly geniculate. Branchiostegous membrane 

 with six rays. (Scales in some species small. Colours variegated, 

 lively.) 



Sp. Julis vulgaris VALENC., Labrus julis L., BLOCH Ichth. Tab. 387, fig. i, 

 Cuv. et VAL. Pom. Xili. PI. 384 ; from the Mediterranean Sea ; Julis 

 hortulanus VALENC., Labrus centiquadrus LAC. Poiss. m. PI. 79, fig. i ; 

 East Indies, at the Sunda Islands ; Julis lunaris VALENC., Labrus lunaris 

 L., GRONOV. Zoophyl. i. Tab. vi. fig. 2, Labrus zeylanicus PENNANT, Indian 

 Zoology, London, 1790, Tab. xvi. fig. 2, Scarus Gallus FORSK. ; Red Sea, 

 Indian Ocean, &c. 



Most of the species of this numerous genus, (about 100 are known), 

 which well deserves and requires a monograph, are from the Indian Ocean ; 

 there are, however, also some species from the western hemisphere. 



f*t Lower Pharyngeal bones two, separate. (Order of Acanthopten 



MUELL.). 



Family XXXI. Aulostomi (s. Fistulares). Body in some 

 covered with scales denticulate on the posterior margin, in some 

 with scaleless skin.. Ventral fins placed in abdomen behind pec- 

 toral fins. Head elongated into a cylindric snout. Jaws at the 

 apex of snout. Dorsal fin remote. 



