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PISCES. 



E. edentulus, Cuv.,- Sloane, Jam., II, pi 250 c ^r,s . 

 cies without teeth. America nrorl,... , ^^^ ^ '?" 



remarkable. ^ '^'^""^ '"^^^^^ ^hers equally 



In a second kind, as in the true Herrino-s the hn.i 

 and the abdomen trenchant and dentlt2(2) The ^^^P^^^^^^' 



Thryssa, Cuv. 

 Only differs from an Anchovy with a dentpfoH oK 7 

 treme prolongation of the max 111 es ThT 1 '"' "' '^' '^' 



from the East Indies. (3) '''"^"''- ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^P^cies known are 



Megalops, Lacep. 



The jaws of the Megalopes are formed like those of the true Her 



rings, which they also resemble in th^i. , r 



position of ,i>ei, fins; b, le b "bcloln ' "' "" ""- 



tl>eir body compressed- tl eir i 1 7 ? ""' "''="<=''"'' ""- is 



very shorl s.a^a^dto deV ;.:" h^ifj;"","" '"'^"^'' ""> 



more numerous (from twenty two ',, r "> ''">'' " '""''' 



tlie dorsal, and f reciuemlv of iC T >" "''^ ""' ""= '=>=' '^y f 



as in tl,e Chatoessus ' "'' '' "="S"'=<^<1 "to a filament 



j,] T. . ^ mere is a hlament also on thf 



falL'I'r'f :^;S C"o"ftb "'" "'^ "" "'"'" ""= 

 ^ >^uss. 20o. It has seventeen dorsal rays. 



Elops, Lin. 



"ittrrjbittf^iTeeii^ttr '^'^-'""'-' 



in the branehial raembrae/u,I s,"ne ,: l! V"" "'" "P"^^"' 



caudal armed with a flat spine ^ """'''' "'S'= ' ""= 



Species are found in both hemispheres.(4; 



S^l:^e^Z^ZT::T;: ";7f' '.^. c,r.. ,59. Spi XXI,-.e 



./*;.../&, White,- . we f ^ th/r, ?,""'; '^' """"'''y !'= 



460. N.ll ThatliU r; J, '^'"''" '"'"''"ttust, Lacep., V n 



240i_P<, ,i,,._ .J; "' '' "'"^ "''. "> 72,-0/. plu^a, IJ., p. 

 (3) C&^ (,>.;,, Brousson., Dec. Icth., copied Ecvcl 'm r; 



(4, The Et^s of the InUian Ocean i,, the ..,^,w ^w , ,^,,,_ ^^ 



