Holbrook’s Ichthyology of South Carolina. 91 
agrus and Serranus nigritus not Scizenide, but severally Sparoid 
and Percoid; and finally Zrachinotus and Hemulon are not 
Scopelinidsx, but respectively members of the Scombroid and 
Scizenoid families as understood by Dr. Holbroo 
With regard to the systematic arrangement thus corrected, it 
may be remarked that it is not an exposition of the views now 
Pesyalent concerning the limits of the families. All the Scom- 
Lobotes is the type of a peculiar one, and finally Sawrus is the 
Tepresentative of another, 
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doubtedly the foundation of the family Ichthelidae for the recep- 
tion of the North American fresh water Percoids of Cuvier with 
considered that the Theraponidae of that author taken from it 
should be itself subdivided, and the family of Ichthelidae is 
therefore proposed for some of its constituents. The onl 
the true Percoids by their physiognomy; that it is probable 
that the family itself is a natural one ; it has indeed more resem- 
and in Africa. Like them, the Ichthelidx construct a rude nest, 
Suard their young and are the most characteristic Acanthop- 
terygian types of their respective regions. Their arrangement 
Geolors-and the variation is the number of anal spines are 
orms 
* Dr. Holbrook gives to Grystes in the new edition, “branchiostegal rays seven” 
instead of “ branchial Pectin? pel arg but in a note adds that “sometimes 
there are but six rays,” 
