PISCES. 159 



Indian Sea at Java, &c. (According to a communication of Dr P. BLEEKEB, 

 ventral fins are present in young individuals of this species, and it is upon 

 such that the genus Apolectus Cuv. et VAL. Poiss. vin. PL 338, is founded.) 



Luvarus RAFIN., Proctostegus NARDO. 



Sp. Luvarus imperialis RAFIN. ; from the Mediterranean Sea. 



Note. This fish is unknown to me: is this its place? Teeth none. 

 Branchiostegous membrane with 3 or 4 rays. Body scaleless. Anus 

 covered by an osseous scale. Ventral fins none. Authors say that it is 

 allied to the genus of the Stromatei. Comp. RAFINESQUE, SCHMALZ Caratteri 

 di alcuni nuoi-i generi, &c. Palermo, 1810, 8vo, p. 22 ; and J. D. NABDO 

 De Proctostego novo Piscium genere Specimen, Patavii, 1827, 4to. 



Seriola Cuv., Micropteryx AGASS. Body compressed, covered 

 with small scales. Teeth minute, thin, crowded in jaws, vomer 

 and palate-bones. Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. 

 Ventral fins thoracic. Dorsal fins two, the anterior aculeate, 

 shorter. Aculeus incumbent in front of the anterior dorsal fin ; 

 two aculei in front of anal fin. 



Sp. Seriola cosmopolita Cuv., Scomber cJdoris BL. Ichth. Tab. 339, SPIX Pise. 

 Brasiliens. Tab. 59, Cuv. et VAL. Poiss. ix. PI. 259 ; in the Atlantic, 

 on the coasts both of America and Africa, and in the Indian Ocean. 



Temnodon Cuv. (Characters almost of the preceding genus, 

 but jaws with front row of teeth acute, flat, distant.) 



Sp. Temnodon saltator Cuv., Gasterosteus saliatrix L., Pomatomus Slcib LAC., 

 Poiss. IV. PI. 8, fig. 3, (also under the name of Cheilodipterus heptacanthus, 

 figured in the same work, in. PL 21, fig. 3, according to COMMEBSON) 

 Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Poiss. PL 56, fig. 3; this species lives in almost the 

 whole ocean, and also in the eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea. 



Lactarius Cuv., YALENC. 



Sp. Lactarius delicatulus VALENC., Scomber lactarius BL., SCHN. 



Nomeus Cuv. Body elongate, covered with very small scales. 

 Teeth subincurved, distant, in a single row in jaws, in vomer and 

 palate-bones. Branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. Ven- 

 tral fins thoracic, large, broad, concrete at the inner margin. 

 Dorsal fins two. 



Sp. Nomeus Mauritii Cuv., Gobius Gronovii GM., Eleotris Mauritii BLOCH, 

 SCHN., Gobiomorus Gronovii LAC., MABCGB. Hist. Nat. Brasil. p. 153 *; 

 Nomeus Peronii Cuv., GUEBIN Iconogr., Poiss. PL 31, fig. i. 



1 MABCGRAF does not, as is stated by LACEPEDE and others, name this fish 

 Harder, but only says, piscisfigura similis illi, quern vulgo Harder appellamus. 



