154 PISCES. 



We might also distinguish those species which have no teeth,(l) 

 and those, the points of whose second dorsal and anal are extremely 

 elongated, which I have designated by the name of CiTULiE.(2) 



We are thus gradually led to fishes that may be united under the 

 common name of 



Vomer, 



Which become more and more compressed and elevated, where the 

 armature of the lateral line successively diminishes, and the skin 

 becomes fine, satiny, and without any apparent scales, which have 

 no other teeth than very short, fine and crowded ones, and which 

 are distinguished from each other by various prolongations of some 

 of their fins. 



Linnaeus and Bloch placed them, but improperly, in the genus 

 Zeus. We divide them as follows: 



Olistus, Cuv. 



Differing from Citula, inasmuch as the middle rays of the second 

 dorsal are not branched, but merely articulated, and are extended 

 into long filaments. (3) 



ScYRis, Cuv., 

 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. (4) 



Blepharis, Cuv. 



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

 longed, the spines of the first hardly piercing the skin;(5) body ele- 

 vated? the profile not more curved than usual. 



Gallus, Cuv. 



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

 racters similai\(6) , 



Kleinii,'B\. 347, 2; — Sc. Sansun, Forsk; — Kuguroo-jtarah, Russ. 145; — Talan-pardh, 

 Id. 150, or Scomb. malabaricus, Bl. , Schn.; — TVootin-parak, Russ. 148. 



(1) Scomb. speciosus, LiSLcej}. Ill, 1, 1, or Folooso-parah, Russ. 149, of which the 

 Car. petaurista, Geoff., Egypt., XXIII, 1, appears to be the adult. 



(2) Tchawil-parah, Russ. 151; — Mais-parah, Id. 152. 



(3) The species is new. 



(4) The Gal. d'Alexandrie, Geoff., Eg., Poiss., XXII, 2. 



(5) Zeus ciliaris, Bl. 196;— Zeus suior, Cuv., the Cordo7i7ner of Martinique. 



(6) Zeus gallus, L., Bl., or Ourrnh-parah, Russ. 57 ■■,—Chewoola-parah, Id. 58. 



