88 Air. Bennett on some Fishes Jroin Jamaica. 



name of Scyllium cirratum will of course be used, M. Cuvier also 

 refers the Squale pointille of Lacepfede. Such an association would have 

 been impossible to any one who did not enjoy the opportunity of ex- 

 amining the specimen described and figured by M. Lacepede. The 

 words of that authour, at variance even with his figure, are diametrically 

 opposed in every particular, except the relative position of the fins, to 

 the appearances exhibited by perfect specimens of the fish, which, 

 according to M. Cuvier, formed the subject of his description. 



5. Is the ZygcEna Malleus of M. Valenciennes, to whom we are 

 indebted for an excellent Monograph of the genus, published in the 

 Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. M. Valenciennes has pointed 

 out four well defined species, which he has carefully described. He 

 has also given representations of the upper and under surfaces of the 

 head in each species. We have therefore here a standard production 

 to which recourse may be had. In the Zyg. Malleus the head 

 is more produced on the sides than in the other species; its front is 

 nearly straight, Avith a notch on each side near the nostrils ; and the 

 nostrils are situated very near the outer angle of the head. M. Valen- 

 ciennes mentions as its habitats, the coasts of France, the Mediterranean, 

 and Brasil; to these may now be added the West Indian Seas. 



8. is the Serranus Ouatalibi, Cuv. and Val., recently described in the 

 Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 11,381. It was figured by Parra, t. v. 

 f. 2, and with f. 1. of the same plate, constituted in Schneider's System 

 a species of Bodiaims, under the name of Gaativere. The fish repre- 

 sentedinthe latter figure, is distinguished by MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 as the Serranus Guativere, solely on the authority of Parra, no speci- 

 men of it having yet reached them. 



9. is the Belone Carribcea of M. Le Sueur, by whom it and several 

 other species were first distinguished from the common European Belone, 

 in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ii. 

 127. It is knovirn by the equality of its mandibles; the greater prolon- 

 gation backwards of its dorsal than of its anal fin ; the greater length of 

 the lower lobe of its caudal fin ; the flattened form of some of the rays 

 of the fins; and several other peculiarities which distinguish it from 

 the rest of the genus. 



10. Notwithstanding the assistance afforded to us by M. Le Sueur, in 



