150 
from the fact, common indeed to species of other families 
in nature, that several fishes bear different names in difierea 
places ; and, still worse, in some instances the same nan’ 0 
is applied by the same people to separate species : not from 
supposing them the same, but from some characters wide 
they possess in common, of which this name is descripti vP > 
though in other respects the species widely differ. M® D 1 
curious instances might be given in illustration of the> 0 
remarks, but scarcely any one has led to a greater extent 0 
confusion than this species; which appears to have bec° 
known to some aucient Naturalists, but which hitherto doe 
not seem to have fallen into the hands of any recent en- 
quirer. . 
The specimen here described was taken November “ ^ 
1042, with a baited hook, at a place termed the Edges'’ ^ 
margin of rocky ground running parallel with the land » 
the distance of three miles south of Polperro. I he wel T. g 
was six pounds: the body in figure and thickness not nnWv 
that of the common Sea Bream ( Pagdhts centrodontuV 
but rather deeper and more stout. Tne head thick, 
muzzle remarkably so, and rounded, the line of the tr°‘ s 
sloping suddenly from the forehead to the mouth ; the «J\ 
of moderate size, elevated, and near the front, iris ye 1°' - 
nostrils in a slight depression, the superior large and I 
tulous ; jaws equal, in a line with the front, the lower " 
a well marked chin ; the teeth in front rather stout, son# 
what separate, those of the upper and lower jaws in’? 
locking. The scales large, and conspicuous on the postd 
plate of the gillcovers ; the middle plate has none, and the 
are hut few vestiges on the anterior plate. The head ® 
short, the back rises high above it. The lateral line ' 
dark, less curved than in the more common Sparoid usn 
and scarcely continued full to the tail; the body terminally 
in a defined form at the caudal tin, with an incision <>PP 0S 
the direction of the lateral line; it is also somewhat <- 
traded at the vent. Colour of the front and summit oi , 
head a brownish red; of the hack and fins much like , 
of the Becker ( Pagrus vulgaris), such as would be 1°' , 
bv a mixture of lake and Vermillion; fins the same, e y, 
the anal, which is pale yellow ; sides pale red, belly win t 
As the colours faded, at the angles where the scales u 
there was a yellow margin. 
Fin rays: D. 12, 10. P.13. V. 4. A. 38. U*-' j 
Tlio third ray of the pectoral fin longest, the scc ” ri< tn a e sS 
first regularly becomii g shorter. The remarkable ®“° r f 0 „t, 
of the head, the roumlness and perpendicularity ot 1 ’? u |ar 
equality of the jaws, interlocking of the teeth, anil s* & 
