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Plate 27. ter. Fig. 1.—LosBotrrs somNo.entus, Cuv. < . ll2 
Fig. 2.—D1aGRAMMA ORIENTALE, Cuv. 6 , SUR. 
Fig. 3.—D1aGRamma CarRviFrons, Cuv. a - - 112 
2nd. Plate 27. ter. Fig. 1.—Gtyruisopon koruscul, Cuv.  . c . 114 
Fig. 2.—AMPHIPRION LATICLAvius, Cuv. . . - 113 
Fig. 3.—AMPHIPRION TUNICATUS, Cuv. —. . - 113 
Plate 27. quar. Fig. 1.—GasTERosTEus TRacHuRUs, Cuv. and Val. - 108 
Fig. 2.—GasTerostEus Gymnurus, Cuv. (The Stickle-back) . 108 
Fig. 3.—GaAsTEROSTEUS NOVEBORACENSIS, Cuy. and Val. . 108 
Fig. 4.—GaAsTERosTEUs LEIURUS, Cuv. and Val. a - 108 
Plate 28. Fig. 1.—Monocentris Japonica, Cuv. ~ 5 - 107 
Fig. 2.—GasTeERosTEUS BRACHYCENTRUS, Cuy. (The Three-spined 
Stickle-back). : = : - 108 
Fig. 3.—ORrrE0soma ConirERUM, Cuv. 5 : - 108 
Plate 28, bis. Fig. 1.—Larimus previceps, Cuy. (The Larime)® 
* After all the groups that have been described, and which compose the regular 
series of Sciwnoides with two dorsals, there still remains some fish of this family 
which escape all the characters assigned tu any of them, and which, should each be- 
come the type ofa peculiar group to which we ought to give a generic name, we will 
call them if you please anomalous Sciwnas; but remembering that nature acknow- 
ledges nothing anomalous in what exists, and that there is no anomaly, but rela- 
tively to the incomplete abstractions of our mind, Cuvier has given the name of Lari- 
mus to some of these fish. They are Scienoides with two dorsals, teeth as the pile on 
velvet; the front of the cranium does not project forward, and the snout is very 
short ; their preopeuculum is slightly indented. 
The L. breviceps,Cuv., resembles the Corvina in almost everything ; but far from 
having the snout swelled and prominent, it has it flat and extremely short as in the 
Barber, (Serranus anthias) ; so that its eye, which is large, is in the anterior half of 
the length of the head; nevertheless, the jaws are cavernous, and there are no teeth 
in the palate. The length of the head measures nearly the fourth of the whole 
length, and the height of the body slightly exceeds the length of the head. ‘The 
opening of the mouth descends backward; the openings of the nostril are all near 
the anterior edge of the eye. There is no pore to the lower jaw. ‘he teeth are 
soft, on a very narrow band. The under orbital is not more distinguished than in 
the other Sciznas, and gives the same shelter to a part of the maxillary; all the 
head, except the lips and the maxillary, is scaly. There are scales even on 
the lower jaw, but not on the membrane of the gills, which are well cut, and 
have seven rays; of which the upper are flat, and the under very small. The 
preoperculum has the border wide and almost without any apparent indentations. 
The bone of the operculum terminates in two points, but concealed, obtuse, and so 
frail as scarcely to be felt. The first dorsal is triangular and is not half the height 
of the body ; it has ten spiny rays disposed as usual. The second has one spiny and 
twenty-eight soft rays. ‘The scales ascend between the rays, even to the half of its 
height. The pectorals are long and pointed; the ventrals wide, and almost equal 
to the pectorals in length. The anal less in length than in height, has only seven 
soft rays, but its second spine is strong asin the corvines. ‘This fin is placed under 
the middle of the second dorsal, and much behind the anus,which is exactly between 
the anal and the ventrals, under the commencement of the second dorsal. The caudal 
is rhomboidal ; it has a line of scales on its middle. The scales on the body are very 
large: there are about forty-five on a longitudinal line, and fifteen on a vertical. 
There are some between the bases of the dorsal and the anal, ‘he lateral line is 
parallel to the back, and one third above, as in the greater part of the Sciaznas. The 
