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FISHES. 



Conger vulgaris. — The Coiig:er Eel. Plate Iviii. fig. 10. Blackisli-browu 

 above, and silvcry-white beneath ; dorsal arid anal tins having black edges. 

 Six feet long. Inliabits the Northern seas. 



Murcena catenata. — The Chain.Striped Murjena. Plate Iviii. 6g. 11. 

 Brown ; with interrupted, wliite, transverse, chain-like bands ; thickly 

 freckled with brown. Fifteen inches lon^. Inhabits Surinam. 



Gymnotus etectricus.— The Electrical Gymnotus. Plate Iviii. fig. 12. De- 

 scribed, vol. iii. p. 536. 



Leptocephalus Mornsii. — Morris' Leptocephalus. Plate lix. fig. 1. Pale, 

 grayish-yellow, semipellucid ; margins of back and belly with small black 

 spots. Six inches long. Inhabits the coasts of England. 



ORDER IX.— ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



The first rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins supported by a simpla 

 spinous process. 

 This order contains one hundred and sixty-eight genera as follow : — 



TRIBE I.— T.aENIOIDES. 

 Section 1. — Snout short. 

 1. Cepola ; 2. Lophotes ; 3. Regalecus ; 5. Trachypterus ; 4. Gymnetrus j 

 6. Gymnogaster ; 7. Trichiurus ; 8. Lepidopus ; 9. Stylephorus. 



TRIBE II. — GOBIOIDES. 



la Blenuius; 11. Pholia; 12. Salarias; 13. Clinus ; U. Guunellusi W 

 Opistognathus ; IR. Anarchicas ; 17. Gobius ; 18. Gobioides ; 19. Tsnioides ; 

 •20. Periophthalmus ; 21. Eleotris ; 22. Sillago ; 23. Callionymus; 21 Come- 

 phorus. 



TRIBE III. LABROIDES. 



25. Labrus ; 26. Julis ; 27. Crenilabrus ; 28. Coricus ; 29. Cheilinns ; 30. 

 Epibulus; 31. Goniphosus ; 32. Novacula; 33. Cliroinis; 34. Scarus; 3o. 

 Labrax. 



TRIBE IV. — PERCOIDES. 



Section 1. — Dorsal fin continuous. 



36. Smaris; 37. Boops ; 38. Sargus; 39. Daurada ; 40. Pagrus; 41. Dc-n- 

 te.x ; 42. Lutianus; 43. Diacope ; 41. Cirrhitus ; 45. Bodianus ; 4& Ser. 

 ranus ; 47. Plectroporaus ; 48. Cantharus ; 49. Cichia ; 50. Pristopomus ; 51 

 Scolopsis ; 52. Diagramina; 53. Chcilndactylus ; 54. Micropterus ; 55. Grara- 

 mistes; 56. Priacanthus; 57. Polyprion; 58. Holoceiitrus ; .59. Acerina; 60. 

 Stelliferus ; 61. Seoropaena; 62. Synanceia ; 63. Pterois ; 64. Taenianotusj 

 65. Atherina; 66. Sphyraena ; 67. Paralepis ; 68. Mullus ; 69. Pomatomus ; 

 70. Mugil ; 71. Perca; 72. Centropomus ; 73. Euoplosus ; 74. Prochilus ; 75i 

 Saudrus ; 76. Terapon ; 77. Apogon ; 78. Cingla ; 79. Urabrina ; 80. Lon- 

 churus ; 81. Sciu!iia; 82. Pogouias ; 83. Otolithes ; 84. Ancylodon ; 85. Per. 

 CIS ; 86. Trachiuus ; 87. Uranoscopus ; 88. Trigla ; 89. I'eristedion ; 90. Dac- 

 tylopterus; 91. Ccphalacimthus ; 92. Monoceulris ; VJ. Cotlus; 91. Aspido- 



