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young examples of this species, though much older than my younger 

 ones, as the ventral is represented as short. 



SCYRIS Cuvier. 

 Regne Animal, Ed. II, II, 1829, p. 209 {alexandrina). 

 Soyris alexandrina (St. Hilaire). 



Gallus alexandrinus Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Faune de Egj'pt, Zool., 1S09, 

 PI. 22, fig. 2. Egypt. [Text not consulted.] 



Head 3; depth H; D. I, IV-I, 21; A. I, 18; P. ii, 17; V. I, 5; scales 

 about 134 in lateral line, several on base of caudal; mandible 2y\ iii 

 head; snout 2^, measured from its own tip (not tip of upper jaw); 

 eye 3f; maxillary 3; interorbital space 4^; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 5^; ventral (damaged) 2f. Gill-rakers 10-1-25, compressed, 

 longest much longer than longest filaments or a trifle over half of or])it. 

 Pseudobranchise equal to filaments. Rather narrow bands of nearly 

 even small teeth in jaws. A small patch of similar ones also on vomer. 

 Orbit f depth of preorbital. Length 8f inches. Two examples from 

 Beirut, Syria. 



The original figm-e is good. Gdlichtys cegyptiacus Cuvier^^ is prob- 

 ably the young. It is also possible that Hynnis goreensis Cuvier,^^ 

 may be different, though suggested as identical by Liitken.^^ The 

 adult of Hynnis would differ at all ages in not having the anterior 

 soft dorsal and anal rays produced into filaments. 



Soyris indioa RuppeU. 



Scyris indicus Ruppell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika, Zool., 1828, 

 p. 128, PI. 33, fig. 1. Djetta. (Mus. Francos.) 



Head 3^; depth 2; D. I, 19; A. I, 16; P. ii, 16; V. I, 5; width of 

 head about 3 in its length; least depth of caudal peduncle Ih; ventral 

 2J; snout 2\ in head, measured obliquely from tip of upper jaw to 

 upper angle of opercle; eye 4; maxillary 3; interorbital space 4^; 

 pectoral 2f in body; upper caudal lobe about 3f. Tongue long, nar- 

 row, rounded, and free in front, its upper sm-face finely asperous. 

 Gill-rakers 8-^23, short, compressed, broad, and longest about If in 

 longest filament. Filaments 2 in orbit. Pseudobranchise about 5 in 

 orbit. Scales developed about shoulder, behind eye, and on base of 

 caudal. A few small scales along bases of soft dorsal and anal in 

 front. First dorsal ray reaching back opposite base of last. Color 

 when fresh in arrack more or less silvery-white, glaucous or slaty-gray 

 on upper surface. Outer edge of membrane between rays of dorsal 



" Ehrenberg, in Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, p. 131. 



32 L. c, p. 145. Gor^e. (M. Rang.) 



» Kon. Dansk. Vid. Sehk. Skrift. (SpoHa Atlantica), XII, 1880, p.( 538-42) 605. 



