The chinchara or chixarra, fig. 27, a new species of serióla The
diodon tigrinus. The imperador, which agrees with Cuvier’s brief
description of the barber, or serranas anthias, (supposed to be the
anthias of the ancients) which, however, does not notice, that the
preoperculum finely dentated above,, has. larger teeth below, a
character which approximates it to the. genus plectropomes. It in
no respect agrees with Bonnaterre’s description, or figure of the
barberp. The garoupa, or serranus scriba. ■ The requeime, a new
species of the scorpeena of Schneider ; it resembles the scorpeena
scrofa, hut differs, from its scales being smaller, and from having
no fleshy appendices to the head or dorsal line’. The boqueirao,
fig. 26, a new species of smarisr. The spet or esox sphyrcena of
° Serióla picturata, B. It has no apparent teeth, no scales, and two detached
spines in advance of the anal fin; the dorsal line is faint, and curved; branched on
one side only until it arrives beneath the middle of the second dorsal fin, where it
makes a descent, and is continued in a straight line branched on both sides, and much
more pronounced; the first dorsal fin has Seven or eight rays, the second seventeen,
both are of a pale brown; the rays of the caudal are very minute, and its colour is the
same as that of the dorsal, with a red tinge; the anal has fifteen forked rays, and is
white; the ventral is tinged with red, and has five branching rays; the rays of th®
pectoral are about twenty-five in number, but are two minute to reckon accurately. It
is of a light silvery green, the head of a dark green, the under jaw of a bright silvery
appearance; the back of a dark blue green with a metallic lustre; the belly is like the
under jaw; the whole fish has a brilliant silvery hue. It is 6 inches long.
p It is of a brilliant rose colour, with a dash of violet; the stripes on the head and
operculum violet; the back mottled with yellow ; the fins red, mottled with yellow;
the ends of the dorsal and the middle of the caudal of a bright yellow; there is a violet
mark round the eye. It is 7 inches long, from the lower jaw to the fork of the tail.
q Scorptena Kuhlii, B. The dorsal fin has eleven spines and eleven rays; the
caudal seventeen rays; the ventral six rays; the anal four rays and three spines; the
pectoral seventeen rays. It is of a beautiful yellow red, the caudal fin deeper in
colour than the other parts; the body has a golden hue, and is spotted with brown;
the pectoral fins are red at the top and bottom, but yellow in the middle; the ventral
is entirely red ;'the head is shaded with brown; the whole fish is strongly phosphorescent.
It is 6 j inches long.
■> r Smaris Royéni'. The upper or flat part of the head is curiously ornamented*
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