114 SPARID.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYG1I. SPARID&. 



THE BLACK BREAM. 



Cantharus griseus, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vi.p. 333. 

 Sparus lineatus, Black Bream, MONTAGU, Mem.Wern. Soc. vol. ii. p. 451, 



pi. 23. 1815. 

 Sparus vetula, Old Wife, COUCH, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 79. 



1822. 

 Pagrus lineatus, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 211, sp. 138. 



Generic Characters. Body deep, compressed : a single elongated dorsal fin ; 

 teeth of rather small size, numerous, conical, placed in several rows, those of 

 the outer row rather larger and more curved than those forming the inner rows; 

 mouth rather small ; branchiostegous rays 6. 



THE BLACK BREAM, the Cantharus griseus of Cuvier 

 and M. Valenciennes, was made known as a British fish 

 in 1815, by Colonel Montagu, under the name of Sparus 

 lineatus ; and in 1822, Mr. Couch included in his paper 

 printed in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, a notice 

 of a fish under the name of Sparus vetula, which that gen- 

 tleman has since stated he considers identical with the Spa- 

 rus lineatus of Montagu. Cuvier does not appear to have 

 been aware of the description and figure of this fish in the 

 Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, since, 



