85 
Fam. Zenip#, nob. 
Zuus rnosEus. Z. roseus immaculatus inermis: pinna antica anali 
nulla, dorsali haud filamentosa ; pinnis ventralibus amplis triangu- 
lari-ovatis. 
D.8 + 27 v. 28; A.lv.2 + 29; P.14; V.9;C. 
M. B. 7 v. 8. 
Two examples of this very handsome and most distinct new spe- 
cies of Dory have occurred. There is no danger of confounding it 
with any other of the genus yet recorded, for the Z. Childrenii of 
Bowdich, so obscurely indicated in the ‘ Excursions in Madeira,’ was 
most probably the Boar-fish (Capros Aper, Lac.). 
Sternoptyx diaphana (Herm.), Cuv. R. An. ii. 316. t. xi. f. 1. 
The acquisition lately of an example of this most rare and curious 
of fishes has confirmed a suspicion [ have long entertained, that the 
true position of its genus is near Zeus. It has also some relation to 
Trachichthys, but I think only in the way of analogy. 
This little fish was taken in August at sea, between Madeira and 
St. Mary’s, the southernmost of the Azores, about eighty miles to 
the south-east of the latter island, in a calm smooth sea. It is not 
a little remarkable, that after so long an interval, Sternoptyr dia- 
phana, originally discovered by Hermann so long ago as 1774, in 
the West India islands, should have been rediscovered thus near 
the Azores; that is, in the locality in which the cognate St. Olfersii, 
Cuv. J. ¢. t. xiii. f. 2, has yet alone been found. 
B+VI. 44V._ 
B+V. %°54VI.’ 
Fam. Caproip&, nob. 
Gen. AnticonzA, nob. 
Char. Gen.—Corpus compressum rhombiforme, altitudine longitudi- 
nem subequante. Os parvum haud protractile; dentibus conicis 
minutis. Caput asperum; genis operculoque squamosis. Pre- 
operculum interoperculumque limbo denticulato nudo. Oculi magni, 
circulatim cristato-carinati, cristis denticulatis. Squame aspere, 
pectinato-ciliate. 
Pinna dorsalis unica, continua, ad angulum superiorem corporis 
nascens, antice alta; analis parte anteriore spinosa a posteriore 
sinu distincta: spinis utriusque striatis, squamosis; pinne ven- 
trales majuscule, ad angulum inferiorem corporis site. Pinna 
caudalis simplex, truncata. Membrana branchiostega septem- 
radiata. 
Obs.—Species adhuc unica, Maderensi-Atlantica, rarissima par- 
vula rubescens Caproidea. Pinnarum spine valide, striate, squa- 
mulis imbricatis vestite, membrana nuda. Capite armato s. pre- 
operculo interoperculoque cristisque ossium omnibus denticulatis, 
dentibusque brevibus conicis scobinatis, squamisque asperis ciliatis, 
ad Percidas per Enoplosum Lac. dum tendit, a Cheetodontibus (e. g. 
Platar, Drepane) Corypheenidisque (e. g. Peprilus, Apolectus), qui- 
bus forma aspectuque simillima, recedit. Jisdem characteribus, 
