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abound also in the seas of hot climates *, and several species hitherto 

 left among the Labri should be placed here. 



Coricus, Cuv. 



The Sublets have, with all the characters of a Crenilabrus, the mouth 

 nearly as protractile as that of an Epibulus. 



The species known are small, and from the Mediterranean j. 



We must remove the following fishes from the genus Sparus, in order 

 to place them near Coricus or Cheilinus : — 



Epibulus, Cuv. 



The Filous are remarkable for the excessive protractility of their 

 mouth, which, by a see-saw motion of their maxillaries, and the sliding 

 forwards of their intermaxillaries, instantly becomes a kind of tube. 

 They employ this artifice to capture the small fry which pass within reach 

 of this singular instrument; it is also resorted to by the Corici, Zei and 

 Smares, according to the greater or less protractility of their jaws. 



The entire body and head of an Epibulus is covered with large scales, 

 the last range of which even encroaches upon the anal and caudal fins, as 

 is the case in Cheilinus; the lateral line is similarly interrupted, and, as 

 in the latter and in Labrus, there are two long conical teeth in front of 

 each jaw, followed by smaller blunt ones ; we have not had an opportunity 

 of observing those in the pharynx. 



But a single species is known ; Sparus insidiator, Pal. Spic. 



Zool. Fasc. VIII, pi. v, 1, of a reddish colour. From the Indian 



Ocean. 



Clepticus, Cuv. 



Have a small cylindrical snout, which is suddenly protruded like that of 

 an Epibulus, but which is not as long as the head; the small teeth barely 

 perceptible to the touch; the body is oblong, head obtuse, and the lateral 

 line continuous; the dorsal and anal enveloped by scales nearly to the 

 summit of the spines. 



C. genizara, Cuv.; Parra, pi. xxi, f. 1. The only species known; 

 of a purple red. From the Antilles. 



Gomphosus, Lacep. — Elops, Commers. 



The Gomphoses are Labroides, with an entirely smooth head, as in 

 Julis ; but, owing to the prolongation of the intermaxillaries and maxilla- 

 ries, which are united by the teguments as far as the small opening of the 

 mouth, the muzzle is made to resemble a long thin tube J. 



* At the head of the list should be the Lutjanus verres, Bl. 255, the same as his 

 Bodianus bodianus, 223, and as the Perro Colorado, Parra, pi. Ill, f. 1. — Add, Lutja- 

 nus notatus, Bl. 251, 2; — L. violaceus, or L. Linkii, Bl. 252; — L. virescens, Bl. 254, 1; 

 — Lab. burgall, Schcepp., or L. chogset, Mitch. Ill, 2? — L. chrysops, Bl. 248. 



f The Lutjanus viridens, and the L. Lamarkii, Riss., first edition. In the second 

 he adopts this subgenus, and adds to it a Coricus rubescens. 



J Gomphosus viridis, Cuv., or G. Lacepcde, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. Freycin. Zool. 



