163 FISHES. 



pi. xxvii, f. 1 *. (The White or Egyptian Coracinus of the antients). 

 Found in the Nile ; it is two feet long, and is considered the best fish 

 of Egypt. 



Cychla, Bl. Schn. 



They differ from the preceding genus by their teeth being small and 

 crowded, forming a broad band, as well as by the greater elongation of the 

 bodyj - . 



Plesiops, Cuv., 



Are Chromis with a compressed head, approximated eyes, and extremely 

 long ventrals. 



Malacanthus, Cuv. 



The Malacauths have the general characters of a Labrus, and similar 

 maxillary teeth, but the pharyngeal teeth are like those of a card, as in 

 Chromis, &c. ; the body is elongated, the lateral line continuous, and the 

 operculum terminated by a small spine; the long dorsal has but a small 

 number of spines; the anterior ones thin and flexible. 



A species is found in the French Antilles, called by the inhabi- 

 tants Vive; it is the Coryphcene Plumier, Lacep. IV, viii, I; yel- 

 lowish, irregularly and transversely streaked with violet^ ; a crescent- 

 shaped tail. 



Scarus, Lin. 



The Parrot Fishes are remarkable for their jaws, (that is, their inter- 

 maxillary and pre-mandibular bones), being convex, rounded, and fur- 

 nished with teeth, which are arranged like scales upon their edge, and 

 upon their anterior surface ; these teeth succeed each other from behind 



* Add, Labrus punclatus, Bl. 295, 1;— Labre filamenteux, Lac. Ill, xviii, 2; — Lab. 

 15-epincs, Id. lb. XXV, 1; — Sparus surinamensis, Bl. 277, 2; — Cheetodon suratensis, 

 Bl. 217?— Perca bimaculata, Bl. 310, 1. 



f I strike out many species from the genus Cychla as constituted by Bloch, but 

 I leave there, C. saxat'dis, Bl. 309; — C. ocellaris, Bl. Schn. pi. lxvi; — C. argus, 

 Valenc. App. Humb. Obs. Zool. torn. II, p. 109; — perhaps the C. brasiliensis, Bl. 

 310, 2, and new species. But the C. erythrura, Bl. 2C1, and the C. argyrea, are 

 Gerres; the C. cutting, a Cjesio; the C. brama, a Cantharus; the C. macrophtal- 

 ma, Bl. 268, the C.japonica, Id. 277, 1, the C. cynodon, Id. 278, 1, belong to Den- 

 tex; the C. surinamensis, Id. 277, 2, and the C. bimaculata, Id. 310, 1, to Chromis; 

 the C. guttata, Bl. 312, the C. maculata, Id. 313, the C. punctata, Id. 314, to Serra- 

 Nus, or, according to the system of Bloch, to Bodianus. The C. pelagica is the 

 Caranxomore of Lacep., or the Coryphana pelagica, L. It is easily seen that 

 Bloch was quite as unfortunate in the construction of his genus Cychla, as in that 

 of Grammistes. 



The Hiatulm would be Labri without an anal fin; but a single species, however, is 

 quoted (from Carolina), and that merely from a note by Garden, which requires con- 

 firmation (Labrus hiatula, L.). It is not easy to imagine why Bloch, Schn. p. 481, 

 placed it in Trachypterus. 



% N. B. This fig., taken from Plumier,"was altered by Bloch to represent his Cory- 

 plicena Plumieri, pi. 175. Lacepede gives a more exact one. It is also the Mate- 

 juelo bianco of Parra, XIII, 1, or the Sparus oblongus, Bl. Schn. 283. 



Add, the Tubleu of the Isle of France, or Labre large raie, Lacep. Ill, xxviii, 2, 

 the description of which is found, tome IV, p. 204, under the name of Tanianote 

 lurge raie. 



