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Sargus, Cup. 



Trenchant incisors in front of the jaws almost similar to those of Man. 



Several of them which differ but little from each other inhabit the 

 Mediterranean, and are even found in the gulf of Gascony. Their 

 colours consist of vertical black bands on a silver ground*. 



Some have emarginated incisors -j\ 



The round molars of others are on a single line and very small. 

 From the Mediterranean J. 



Chrysophris, Cuv. 



Have round molars on the sides of the jaw, forming at least three rows 

 on the upper one ; a few conical or blunt teeth in front. Two species in- 

 habit the European seas. 



Chr. auratus; Sparus aurata, L. BL, 266 §, and much better, 

 Duham. Sect. IV, pi. 2. Four rows of teeth above; five below, 

 one of which is oval and much larger than the others : a large and 

 excellent fish called Chrysophris — golden eye-brow — by the an- 

 tients, on account of a crescent-shaped band of a golden hue which 

 extends from one eye to the other. 



Chr. microdon, Cuv. Colours nearly the same as in the aurata; 

 smaller; the forehead more gibbous; only two rows of molars be- 

 low, all of which are as broad as they are long, or broader; the 

 large oval one is wanting ||. 



Pagrus. 



The Pagres differ from the Chrysophris in having but two rows of 

 small rounded molar teeth in each jaw; the front teeth either resemble 

 those of a card, or are small and crowded. 



Pagr. vulgaris; Sparus pagrus, L. and Arted. Silvery, with a 

 reddish gloss; no black spot. The Mediterranean**. 



* The Sargue de Rondelet {Sargus raucus, Geoff.), Eg. Poiss. pi. xviii, 1, Ronde- 

 let, 122; — Sp. panlazzo of Risso; — the Sargue de Salvia?ii (Sargus vulgaris, G.), Eg. 

 XVIII, 2; Salviani, fol. 179, Pise. 64; — the Sparaillon (Sargus annularis, L.), 

 Rondel. 118; Salv. 63; Laroche, Ann. Mus. XIII, pi. xxiv, f. 13; — Sp. ovis, Mitch., 

 or Sheepkead of the United States. 



f Perca unimaculata, Bl. 308, 1, or Salema, Marcgr. 153; — Sparus crenidens, 

 Forsk., probably belongs to this subdivision. 



% S. punlazzo, Gm., or Sp. acutirostris, Laroche, Ann. Mus. XIII, xxiv, 12, of 

 which Risso makes his genus Charax. 



§ The teeth belong to another species, and those of the true Chr. aurata are figured 

 pi. 74, as appertaining to the Anarrhichas. 



|| Add: Sparus bufonites, Lacep. IV, xxvi, 2, the same as his Sp. perroquet, lb. 3; 

 and perhaps as the Sp. haffara, Forsk. 33; — Sp. sarba, Forsk. 22; — Chr. chrysargyra, 

 Cuv., Chitchillee, Russel, 91; — Sp. hasta, Bl. Schn. 275, or Sp. berda, Forsk. 33; — 

 Sp. calamara, Cuv. Russ. 92; — Scicena grandoculis, Forsk. 53; — Chcetodon bifasciatus, 

 Forsk., which is also the Labre chapelet, Lacep. Ill, iii, 3, his Spare mylio, lb. 

 XXVI, 2, and his Holocenlre rabagi, IV, Suppl. 725, &c. 



** It is also the Sp. pagrus of Brunnich, but not that of Bloch; the latter has not 

 figured the true Pagrus, which is the Sp. argenteus of his posthumous " System." 



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