186 CLASS XIV. 



Sp. Sebastes norvegicus Cuv., Perca norvegica O. F. MUELLER, Cuv. et VAL. 

 Poiss. IV. PI. 87, a fish from the N. Sea, which usually attains a length of 

 fully i', and has a red colour; at Greenland, Iceland and along the coast 

 of Norway; Sebastes variabilis Cuv., Perca variabilis PALL., GUERIN 

 Iconogr., Poiss. PI. 14, fig. i, at Kamschatka. 



Chirus STELLER, Labrax PALL. 



Sp. Labrax leucogrammus, Labrax decagrammus cet. PALLAS Mem.deTAcad. 

 de Petersbourg, n. 1810, pp. 382 398. Fishes from the sea between 

 Northern Asia and America. Pores arranged in longitudinal rows on the 

 body, as though the lateral line were multiplex. This genus is referred by 

 CUVIEB to the Gobio'ids. 



Phalanx III. Two dorsal fins, the anterior supported by spines. 



f Ventral fins situated behind pectoral, almost abdominal. 



Platycephalus BL. (excl. of some species). Head much de- 

 pressed, spinose; eyes in vertex, approximate. Lower jaw longer 

 than upper. Teeth very thin, crowded in jaws, with the middle 

 and posterior in upper jaw conical, larger; subulate teeth in a 

 narrow belt in the anterior part of vomer, and in an oblique, lon- 

 gitudinal row on each side in palate-bones. Branchiostegous mem- 

 brane with seven rays. Body scaly. 



Sp. Platycephalus insidiator BL., Callionymus indicus L., Cottus spatula 

 BLOCH, Ichth. Tab. 424, Cottus madagascariensis LAC. Poiss. m. PI. XT. 

 figs, i, 2 ; in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean; Platycephalus scaber, Cottus 

 sealer L., BLOCH Ichth. Tab. 180; Platyc. grandispinis Cuv., GUKRIN 

 Iconogr. , Poiss. PI. 13, fig. i, &c. 



H* Ventral fins thoracic (or siibjugular). 



Beinbras Cuv. Head spinose, with snout depressed, obtuse. 

 Teeth thin, crowded in jaws, vomer and palate-bones. Branchio- 

 stegous membrane with seven rays. Body scaly. 



Sp. Bembras japonicus Cuv. et VAL. Poiss. iv. PL 83, Faun. Japan., Pise. 

 Tab. 16, fig. 8 ; Bembras curtus SCHLEG. ibid. figs. 6, 7. 



Cottus L. (excl. of some species). Head broader than body, 

 depressed, spinose. Teeth thin, crowded in jaws. Branchiostegous 

 membrane with six rays. Body attenuated posteriorly. (Branchiae 

 three and a half, with fourth arch adnate posteriorly.) 



Agonus BL., SCHN. (Aspidophorus LAC., Cuv., Phalangistes Pall.). 

 Body mailed with hard osseous scales, angulate. Ventral fins small, 

 triradiate. 



Sp. Cottus cataphractus L., Aspidophorus europceus Cuv., BLOCH Ichth. Tab. 

 39, fig. 3, Skandinaviens Fiskar. Tab. 40, YARRELL Brit. Fish. i. p. 70 ; 

 the armed bullhead, in the North Sea ; about 6" long. This species, like 

 most others of this northern sub-genus, has two dorsal fins, and no other 

 teeth than those of the intermaxillary bone and the lower jaw. 



