258 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
Family XXXIV.— ALBULID^. 
{The Lady-fishes.) 
Body rather elongate, little compressed, covered with rather small, 
brilliantly silvery scales. Head naked. Snout conic, subqnadrangular, 
shaped like the snout of a pig, and overlapping the small, inferior, hor- 
izontal mouth. Maxillary rather strong, short, with a distinct sui)ple- 
mental bone, slipping under the membranous edge of the very broad 
preorbital. Premaxillaries short, not iirotractile. Lateral margin of 
upper jaw formed by the maxillaries. Eye large, median in head, with 
a bony ridge above it, and almost covered by an annular adipose eye- 
lid. Opercle moderate, firm. Preopercle with a broad, flat, membra- 
naceous edge, which extends backward over the base of the opercle. 
Pseudobranchim present. Gill-rakers short, tubercle-like. Gill-mem- 
branes entirely separate, free from isthmus. Branchiostegals about 
14. A fold of skill across gill-membranes anteriorly, its posterior free 
edge crenate. Xo gular plate. Both jaws, vomer, and palatines with 
bands of villiform teeth. Broad patches of coarse, blunt, ]iaved teeth 
on the tongue behind and on the sphenoid and pterygoid bones. Lat- 
eral line present. Belly not carinate, flattish, covered with ordinary 
scales. Dorsal fin moderate, in front of ventrals, its membranes scaly. 
Xo adipose fin. Anal very small. Caudal widely forked. Pyloric cceca 
numerous. A single species known, found in all warm seas. 
{Cliipcklcd gvoni) AlbuUna Giiather, vii, 468, 469.) 
116.— ALEULA Gronovius. 
(Groiiovius; Blocli & Schneider, Syst. Iclith. 1801, 432; type Albula conorhynchus 
Bloch & Schneider :=E 80 x vulpes L.) 
Characters of the genus included above. (Latin alhus, white.) 
431. A. vciBpes (L.) Goode. — Lady-fish ; Bone-fish. 
Brilliantly silvery ; olivaceous above; back and sides with faint streaks 
along the rows of scales ; fins plain ; axils dusky. Upper lobe of 
caudal the longer. A band of peculiar, elongate, membranaceous 
scales along middle line of back; accessory ventral scale large. Head 
3f; depth 4. D. 15; A. 8; scales 9-71-7. L. 18 inches. Cape Cod to 
Southern California and East Indies; abundant in tropical seas. Xot 
much valued as food, but beautiful and gamy. 
{Esox vulpes L. Syst. Nat. : Albula conorhynclvus Gunther, vii, 468.) 
