134 PISCES. 



Chrysophris, Cuv. 

 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 

 inhabit the European seas. 



Chr. auratus; Sparus aurata, L. Bl., 266,(1) 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 

 ancients, 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 au- 

 rata; smaller; the forehead more gibbous; only two rows of 

 molars below, all of which are as broad as they are long, or 

 broader; the large oval one is wanting.(2) 



Pagrus 

 Differs from 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. (3) 



The Indian Ocean and the coast of the United States produce 

 some of these fishes, whose first dorsal spines are prolonged into 

 filaments.(4) 



Others taken at the Antilles are remarkable for the first interspi- 

 nal of their anal fin, which is hollow and terminates en bee like a 

 pen; the point of the natatory bladder runs into this kind of fun- 

 nel. They are called Sanies a plumes. {5) 



A more remarkable peculiarity is that of a Cape Pagrus, whose 

 maxillaries are enlarged and as solid as stone. We call it Pagrus 

 lithognathus. 



(1) The teeth belong to another species, and those of the true Chr. aurata are 

 figured pi. 74, as appertaining to the Anarrhichas. 



(2) Add: Sparus hufonites, Lac^p., 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; — Scixna grandocuUs, Forsk., 53; — 

 Chsetodon bifasciatus, Forsk., which is also the Labre chapelet, Lac^p., Ill, iii, 3, 

 \\is. Spare mylio, lb., XXVI, 2, and his Holocentre rabagi, IV, Suppl., 725, &c. 



(3) 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 " Sys- 

 tem." 



(4) Sparus sp'mifer, Forsk.; — Sp. argyrops, L., or Labrus versicolor, Mitch. 



(5) Pagr. calamus VLiid Pagr. 2}enna, Cuv. 



