THE SrAROin FAMILY. 
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otherwise be desired. Our dependence, on the contrary, will 
be chiefly on our own resources j so that we shall not give 
any figure or descriptions of the members of this family, even 
to the risk of an omission, except of such as have fallen under 
our own inspection: or if in any case a reference is made to 
another writer, it will be in such a manner that the borrowed 
matter may be easily separated from our own. 
The fishes of this family are classed together as thoracic 
fishes by Linnseus, and both the Swedish naturalist and Cuvier 
have included in it the genera Dentex and Mcetia, which we 
have followed the example of Dr. Gunther by placing in a 
separate family. 
