FAMILY, VI— CLUPEID^. 64f» 



Vulpes Baliamensis, Catesby, Nat. Hist, of Carol. &c. p. 1, t. i, f. 2. 



Argentina glossodonta,'eorsk. Desc. An. p. 68, No. 99 ; Bonnat. Ency. Ich. p. 177; Gmel. Lirni. Syst. 

 Nat. p. 1394. 



Butirinus bonanus, Lacep. v, p. 45 ; Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 345. 



Argentina sphyrcena, Lacep. v. p. 366. 



Glupea macrocephala, Lacep. v, pp. 426, 458, 460, t. xiv, f. 1. 



Synodus argeiiteus, Bl. Schn. p. 398. 



Clupea Bradliensis, Bl. Schn. p. 427. 



Allula conorhynchus and Plumieri, Bl. Schn. p. 432, t. 86 ; Cuv. and "Val. xix, p. 356 ; Giinther, Catal. 

 vii, p. 468. 



Amia immaculata, Bl. Schn. p. 451. 



Esox argmteus, Porster, Desc. Anim. ed. Lichtenst. p. 196. 



EngrauUs serious and Bahiensis, Spix, Pise. Brasil. t. xxiii, f. 2, t. xxiv, f. 2. 



Glossodus Forskalii, Agassiz in Spix, 1. c. p. 49. 



Butirinus glossodontus, Rupp. N. W. Pische, p. 80, t. xx, f. 3 ; Schleg. Pauna Japon. Poiss. p. 242, t. cix, 

 f. 1 : Giinther, Pish. Zanzibar, p. 120. 



Elops (Butirinus) glossodonttis, Swainson, Pishes, li, p. 292. 



Albiila macrocephala, Parrm, Goreensis, Neoguinaiaa, seminuda, and Forsteri, Cuv. and Val. xix, pp. 324, 

 339, 342, 350, 351, 354. 



Albula bananus, Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 345 ; Bleeker, Chiroc. p. 11 ; Kner, Novara Pische, p. 339. 



Albula erythrocheiliis, Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 352, pi. 540 ; Cantor, Catal. Mai. Pish. p. 283 ; Bleeker, 

 enum. Pise. p. 161 . 



Albula rostrata, Gronovius ed. Gray, p. 189. 



Conorhynchus glossodon, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. vi, p. 83, t. 260, f. 1. 



Albula glossodonta, Klunz. Pische roth. Meer. Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien. 1871, p. 602. 



B. xiv-xvi, D. 17-19(Tf:^), P. 17, V. 9-10, A. 9(f), C. 17, L. 1. 75-80, L. tr. ^.V, Vert. 41/26, Ca;c. 

 pyl. 22. 



Length of head 4| to 5, of caudal fin 4| to 5, height of body 5| to 6i in the total length. Eyes— 

 diameter 4 to 5 in the length of the head, 1 to Ij diameters apart. The maxilla reaches to below the front 

 edo-e of the eye. Teei^i— generic. Fins — the ventral inserted beneath the last half of the dorsal. Colours — 



silvery. i t. -c 



Sabitat.—Uea, Sea, seas of Africa, India, the Malay Archipelago and America, also the Pacific. 



Sixth group — EtoPsaiFORMEs. 

 Mouth antero-lateral : lower jaw the longer. An osseous gular plate. Abdomen rounded and smooth. 



Genus, 12 — Elops, Linnceus. 

 Branchiostegals numerous : pseudobranchicB. Gill-membranes entirely separated. Body rather elongated and 

 compressed. An osseous gular plate is attached to the symphysis of the mandibles and covers the intermediate part. 

 Mouth wide, anterior, lower jaw the longer. Villifonn teeth in the jaivs, vomer, palatine and pterygoid bones, also 

 on the tongue and base of the sktdl. Ventrals opposite to the dorsal, which last has a few rays more than the anal. 

 Scales small. Lateral-line distinct. Pyloric appendages numerous. 



SYNOPSIS OP INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. 



1. Elops saurzis, D. 22-24, A. 15-17, L. 1. 95-100. Red Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and 

 beyond. 



Elops saurus, Plate CLXVI, fig. 1. 



Eloi)s saurus, Linn. p. 518 ; Bloch, t. 393, f. 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 430, p. 82 ; Russell, Fish. Vizag. ii, p. 63, 

 and Inagow, fig. 179; Dekay, New York Fauna, Pish. p. 267, pi. 41, f. 131; Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 365; 

 Cantor, Mai. Fish. p. 287 ; Bleeker, Chiroc. &c. p. 14, and Atl. Ich. vi, p. 84, t. 218, f. 3 ; Jerdou, M. J. L. and 

 Sc. 1851, p. 146 ; Gronov. ed. Gray, p. 168 ; Kner, Novara Pische, p. 338 ; Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 470 ; Klunz. 

 Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 603. 



Argentina Carolina, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 519; Bloch, Schn. p. 459; Lacep. v, p. 367.^ 



Argentina machiata, Forsk. Desc. Anim. p. 68, No. 100 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1395 ; Lacep. v, p. 366 ; Shaw, 

 Zool. V, p. 129. 



Elops inermis, Mitchell, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York, i, p. 445. 



Elops machnata, Cuv. Reg. Anim. ; Ruppell, N. W. Fische, pp. 80, 84 ; Richards. Voy. Erebus and 

 Terror, Fish. p. 59, t. 30, f. 3-5, and Ich. China, p. 310 ; Schleg. Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 241, t. 109, f. 2 ; Day, 

 Fish. Malabar, p. 227 ; Giinther, Fish. Zanz. p. 121. 



Elops saurus and Indicus, Swainson, Pishes, ii, p. 292. 



Elops purpurascens, Richards. Ich. China, p. 311. 



Elops Capensis, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Africa, Fish. t. vii. 



Jallugu and Jinnagow, Tel. : Ullahti, Tam. 



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