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MEACO SPARUS. 



Sparus Meaco. S. fuscus, fasciis sex transversis albis, macula 

 caudalifusca. 



Brown Sparus, with six transverse white bands, and brown 

 caudal spot. 



Spams Meaco. Cepede. Mullus fasciatus. Thunb. Japan, 



Head compressed : in each jaw two large front- 

 teeth : scales large, oval, and striated : fins spotted 

 with brown. Native of Japan. 



desfontaine's sparus. 



Sparus Desfontainii. S. pinna darsali radiis viginti tribus, anali 



undecim, macula operculomm nigra. 

 Sparus with twenty-three rays in the dorsal fin, eleven in the 



anal, and a black spot on the gill-covers. 

 Sparus Desfontainii. Cepede, 4. p. \6l. 



Inhabits the warm waters of the town of Cassa 

 in Tunis : these waters, in the month of January, 

 are about thirty degrees of Reaumur's thermometer 

 above the freezing point : they are very pure, and 

 the only waters used for drinking by the inhabitants 

 of Cassa : the fish is also found in the cold and 

 brackish waters surrounding the date-plantations 

 at Tozzar. 



