44 Dr. J, E. Gray on a MS. of Laurence Theodore Gronov. 



35. Adonis = Blennius, Cuv. ^^\\ci7>hnvA s'li ff^^ hsA 

 42. Gonocephalus = Dactylopterus, Lacep., Cuv. t 



46. Scorpsena = Scorpsena, Cuv. 



4i7. Sarda = Caranxomores, Lacep., Cuv. 



48. Thynnus = Centronotus, Cuv. 



49. Trachurus = Caranx, Cuv. 

 52. Merlucius = Merlucius, Cuv. 

 71. Chromis = Scisena? 



79. Cephalinus = Agriopus^ Cuv. 



81. Trichopterus = Cirrhites, Comm., Cuv. 



82. Cordylus = Scomber, Cuv. 



84. Orthagoriscus = Orthagoriscus, Schn. 



85. Lepturus = Macrourus, Block, Cuv. 

 87. Elops ? 



89. Pteracles = Pteraciis, Cuv. 



91. Dascilus ? 



93. Holocentrus = ? Holocentrum, Cuv. 



94. Amia = Apogon, Lacep., Cuv. 



95. Stethochsetus = Trichopus. 

 97. Csepola = Csepola. 



102. Acronurus = Acanthurus, Lacep., Cuv. 



All these genera are fully characterized. 



Lacepede commenced his work on Fish in 1798, and finished 

 the last volume in 1803. Block published his large work on 

 Fish between 1785 and 1796, and Sckneiderhi^ Synopsis of Bloch 

 in 1 801 ; so that all these authors published their works after 

 the death of Gronov in 1777. And all these genera would have 

 had priority, if the publication of the MS. had not been prevented 

 by his death. 



It is to be feared that the MS., and perhaps the collection, is 

 not quite complete, as left by the author, though some part of 

 the imperfection in the MS. may have been occasioned by its not 

 having been completed at his death, as is proved by the absence 

 of any description to the genus Mystus, and the unfinished state 

 of the description of Dascilus and some others. 



The imperfections are supposed, because some person, evi- 

 dently not the author, or one well conversant with the subject, 

 has marked the genera in the MS., which had never been sewed 

 together, with a consecutive number, and the number of illus- 

 trations which accompany each genus ; the same number is also 

 marked on the cover ; and on most of the separate papers con- 

 taining the specimens the generic numbers are often also marked 

 with a page, as if referring to the pages of the MS., but they are 

 not paged, and do not agree with the pages which now exist. 



It is evident that these numbers are an addition after the MS. 



