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Gibraltar. It is fifteen or eighteen inches in length, and of a 

 deep green colour. (l) 



Salanx, Cuv.(2) 

 A depressed head; opercula folding beneath; four flat rays in the 

 branchiae; jaws short and pointed, each being provided with a range 

 of hooked teeth, and the upper one almost entirely formed, by the 

 intermaxillaries, which are without pedicles; the lower jaw slightly 

 elongated from the symphysis by a little appendage furnished with 

 teeth; the palate and bottom of the mouth entirely smooth, as there 

 is not even a lingual projection. (3) 



Belone, Cuv. 

 The whole edge of the upper jaw, which as well as the lower one 

 is extended into a long snout, formed by the intermaxillaries, both 

 furnished with small teeth, no others in the mouth, and those of the 

 pharynx en pave. The body is elongated and covered with scales, 

 which are not very apparent, one longitudinal carinated range near 

 the lower edge excepted. The bones are very remarkable for their 

 colour, which is a beautiful green. (4) The intestines differ but little 

 from those of a Pike. 



B. vulgaris; Esox belone, L. ; Bl., 33. (The Gar Fish.) Two 

 feet long; green above, white beneath; found on the coast of 

 France, where its flesh is much esteemed, notwithstanding the 

 colour of the bones. Neighbouring species inhabit all seas. 

 The bite of one of them, which is said to attain a length of 

 eight feet, is considered dangerous.(5) 



ScoMBEREsox, Lacep. Sairis, Rafin. 

 The structure of the snout similar to that of a Belone; the same 

 port and scales, with the carinated range along the belly; but the 



(1) The Stomlas Schneider!, Risso, Ed, II, f. 37, appears to mc to be of another 

 genus, and even of another order. 



(2) Sahnx, the Greek name of an unknown fish. 



(3) There is but one species, anew one. . 



(4) This colour is inherent in the bone, and does not arise either from cooking' 

 or the spinal marrow, as was believed by Bloch, ed. Schn., p. 391. 



(5) The Brocket de Bantam, Ren., part 11, fol. 14, No. 65; the Belone crocodila, 

 Lesueur, Ac. Nat. So. Philad., I, 129, probably the same as the Wahla kuddera, 

 Russ., 175, and as the variety of the Belone, Lac^p., VII, pi. v, f. 1. 



Add, Belone caudimacii la, Cuv., kuddera, A, Russ., 176; Belone cancila, Ham. 

 Buchan, XXVII, 70; B. argalus, Lesueur, loc. cit., p. 125; B. truncata. 

 Id., p. 126; B. caribcea, Id., 127, which is perhaps the fimiicu of Marcg^., 168, 

 and other species to be described in our Ichthyology, 

 Vol. II. 2 B 



