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829. Saurida grandisquamis, Gunth. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes V., p. 400. 



B. 15. D. 12-13. A. 11. V. 9. L. lat. 49. L. transv. 4/6-7. 



The length of the head is contained four times and one-third 

 in the total length (caudal excluded) ; snout broad, obtuse, a 

 little longer than the diameter of the eye, which is contained five 

 times and a-half in the length of the head ; orbit with the adipose 

 eyelids moderately developed. Dorsal fin much higher than long, 

 the third (longest) ray being not much shorter than the head. 

 The pectoral fin extends to the twelfth scale of the lateral line, 

 and nearly to the vertical from the origin of the dorsal. A 

 conspicuous ridge runs along the caudal portion of the lateral line 

 Blackish-olive above, silvery beneath ; the anterior rays of the 

 dorsal fin, and the upper ones of the caudal with brown dots. 



Cape Grenville (Chevert Exp.) 



830. Saurida truculenta, n. sp. 



B. 14. D. 11. A. 11. L. lat. 58. L. transv. 4/6. 



Height of body one-tenth of the total length, length of the 

 head nearly one-fifth. Head broad and fiat above, and rather 

 pointed at the snout. The eye is large and partially covered on 

 each side by an adipose membrane ; the length of the snout from 

 the eye is about equal to the largest diameter of the orbit. The 

 space between the eyes has a width of rather more than two 

 diameters of the eye, and has a broad shallow groove in the 

 middle ; immediately above the snout there is a bony protuber- 

 ance, over each eye a sharp horizontal ridge and behind these in 

 the same line, one or two small, sharp protuberances. The teeth 

 are extremely large and numerous. The scales are large and 

 rather loose ; they commence on the occiput. The pectoral fin 

 extends to a little beyond the commencement of the ventral, and 

 these are placed entirely in front of the dorsal, which commences 

 nearly opposite their posterior third. The two first rays of the 



