210 PISCES. 



last rays of the dorsal and anal are detached, forming spurious fins 

 as in the Mackerel. 



One of them is taken in the Mediterranean, the Scombresoce 



camperien, Lac. V, vi, 3j Hsox saurus, Bl., Schn., pi. 78, 2; 



Sairis nians, Rafin., Nuov., Gen., IX, 1.(1) 



Hemiramphus, Cuv. 



The edge of the upper jaw, which as well as that of the lower one 

 is furnished with small teeth, formed by the intermaxillaries; but 

 the upper jaw is very short, and the symphysis of the lower one is 

 extended into a long point or semi-beak without teethj the port, fins, 

 and viscera of a Belone; scales large and round, and a carinated 

 range of them along the belly. 



Several species are found in the seas of hot climates in both 

 hemispheres^ their flesh, although oily, is agreeable to the pa- 

 late. (2) 



ExocETus^ Lin. (3) 



These well known, or Flying-Fishes, as they are called, are instantly 

 distinguished among the Abdominales by the excessive size of their 

 pectorals, which are sufficiently large to support them in the air for 

 a few moments. Their head and body are scaly, and a longitudinal 

 range of carinated scales forms a salient line on the lower part of 



(1) Add, Scomberesox equirostris, Lesueur, Ac. Nat. -Sc. Philad., I, 132; — Sc. 

 scutellafus. Id. lb. 



(2) Species from India: Hem. longirostris, Cuv., or kuddera, C, Russ., 178; — H. 

 brevirostris, ov kuddera, U, Russ., 177, Willug-hb., App. pi. vii, f. 4; — H. margi- 

 natus, Cuv., Lacep., V,. vii, 2; — H. Commcrsonii, Cuv., Lacep., V, vii, 3, or the 

 Demi-bee de Baggewaal, Ren., part II, pi. v. No. 21. 



American species, H. brasiliensis, Cuv., ov EsoxbrasiUensis,''R\., 391; — H. hepse- 

 tus, or Esox hepsefus, Bl., Schn., and others to be described in our Hist. desPois- 

 sons. See also the article of M. Lesueur, Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., I, 134, et seq. 



N.li. M. de Lac. unites the Esox hespetus, Lin., to the Es. marginutus; but the 

 former is a compound of two fishes — one, Xhe Piquitinga of Marcgr., 159, (the 

 mcenidia of Brown, Jam., XLV, 3,) is an Anchovy; the other. Amain. Ac. I, p. 

 321, appears to me to be indeterminable, but it cannot be a Hemiramphus. 



(3) E^oixi/Toc, sleeping out, the Greek name of a fish, which, according to the 

 ancients, came on shore to rest. It was most probably either a Goby or a Blenny, 

 as imagined by Rondelet and others. It is difficult to conjecture what could have 

 induced Artedi to associate the fishes here in question with these Blennies: Lin- 

 nseus separated them, but without altering the name of exocetus, which does not 

 belong to them. 



