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not branched, but merely articulated, and are extended into long fila- 

 ments*. 



Scyris, Cuv. 



Have the same filaments, and nearly a similar form; but the spines which 

 should form the first dorsal are entirely hidden in the edge of the second. 

 The ventrals are short')". 



Blepharis, Cuv. 



Have long filaments to the second dorsal and anal; ventrals much pro- 

 longed, the spines of the first hardly piercing the skin J; body elevated; 

 the profile not more curved than usual. 



. Gallus, Cuv. 



Have the profile more vertical than in Blepharis, but all the other cha- 

 racters similar §. 



Argyreyosus, Cuv. 



The profile still more elevated; the first dorsal decidedly marked, and 

 some of its rays prolonged into filaments like those of the second. Their 

 ventrals also are much lengthened |j. In 



Vomer, properly so called, 



The body is compressed, and the profile vertical, as in Gallus and Ar- 

 gyreyosus, but there is no prolongation to any of the fins^[. The genus 



Zeus, Lin. 



After abstracting the Galli and Argyreyosi, &c, comprehends fishes with 

 a compressed body, an extremely protractile mouth like that of the Me- 

 nides, and having but few and weak teeth. They require, however, to be 

 greatly subdivided. 



Zeus, Cuv. 



The Dories have dorsal emarginate, its spines accompanied by long slips 

 of the membrane ; a series of bifurcated spines along the base of the dorsal 

 and the anal. 



Z.faber, L., Bl. 41. (The Common Dory). Yellowish, with a 



* The species is new. 



t The Gal. d'Aletandrie, Geoff*., Eg. Poiss. XXII, 2. 



X Zeus eiliaris, Bl. 196; — Zeus sutor, Cuv., the Cordonnicr of Martinique. 



§ Zeus gallus, L., Bl., or Gurrah-parah, Russ. 57; — Chewoola-parah, Id. 58. 



|| Zeus vomer, Mus. Ad. Fred, xxxi, 9, and better, Bl. 93, 2, or Abacatuia, Marcgr. 

 161; — Zeus rostratus, Mitch., op. cit. II, 1. N. B. The Zeus niger, Bl. Schn., is 

 founded on a mistake; a figure of the Abacatuia, in the work of Marcgrave, p. 115, 

 being placed next to the description of the Guapcrva or Chatodon arcuatus. The 

 Selene argent&e, Lacep. IV, ix, 2, is an Abacatuia, whose first dorsal and ventrals hid 

 been worn. His Selene quadravgulaire is the Chat, faber. 



^f Zeus setapiiinis, Mitch., op. cit. I, 9, Labat. Voy. de Desmarchais, I, p. 312. 



