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PEllOID.E. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



PERCIDjE. 



THE GREAT WEEVER, STING-BULL, 



SEA CAT. Sussex. CHANTICLEER 



AND GowDiE. Scotland. 



Trachinus draco, Linnkus. 



,, ,, Cuv. et VvvLENc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iii. p. 238. 



,, major, Greater Weever, Penn. Brit. Zool. edit. 1812,* vol. iii. 



p. 229, pi. 33. 

 Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 107. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 214, sp. 146. 



Generic Characters. — Head and body compressed, eyes approximate ; branchi- 

 ostegous rays 6 ; teeth in both jaws, on the front of the vomer and palatine 

 bones : two dorsal fins, the first very short, the rays spinous ; the second long, 

 the rays flexible : operculum with one long spine directed backwards ; anal fin 

 elongated. 



The six species of fishes already described belong to the 

 first division of Cuvier*'s first family of the Perches, which 

 have the ventral fins placed under the pectorals, and hence 

 called thoracic. The two species now to be mentioned be- 

 long to the second division of this family, distinguished by 



* The octavo edition of 1812 is always quoted, unless otherwise expressed. 



