254 SCOMBRESOCinJi. 



42. Belone senegalensis. 

 Cuv. ^- Val. xviii. p. 421. 



D. 15. A. 15-16. P. 11. 



The free portion of tlie tail is compressed, deeper than broad. The 

 length of the head is two-fifths of the total (without caudal) ; its 

 upper siu'face flat, \\iih. a broad, shallow, scaly median groove ; 

 superciliary region faintly striated ; base of the intermaxillaries de- 

 pressed, maxillary only half hidden by the praeorbital. Teeth of 

 moderate size ; vomerine teeth none. The diameter of the eye is 

 less than the width of the iuterorbital space, and contained twice 

 and thi-ee-quarters in the length of the postorbital portion of the 

 head. Body broad, subcylindrical, its depth being considerably less 

 than the length of the pectoral fin, which is more than the distance 

 of the opercular margin from the orbit. Ventral fin somewhat nearer 

 to the head than to the caudal. The middle and hinder dorsal and 

 anal rays subequal in length, short, the last terminating at a con- 

 siderable distance from the root of the caudal. Caudal fin emargi- 

 nate. Scales very thin, rather small, and deciduous. 



West Africa. 



a. Adult. Sierra Leone. 



b. Teeili on the palate. 



43. Belone vulgaris. 



CTar-fi.sh, Gar-pike ; Horn-fish, Horn-hecht; I'Orphie ; Niibbgadda. 

 Will. Hist. Pise. p. 231 (tab. P. 2. fig. 4); Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 28.3, 



pi. 63, and, edit. 1812, iii. p. 429, pi. 74; Couch, Brit. Fish. iv. p. 146, 



pi. 209. 

 Esox, sp., Gronov. Zoophi/I. no. 362 ; 3Iiis. Ichth. i. p. 10, no. 30. 

 Esox belone, L. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 517 ; Bl. taf. 33 ; Bl. Schn. p. 391 ; 



Lacep. V. p. 308'; 3Iiil/. Faun. Dan. p. 49; Donov. Brit. Fish. iii. 



pi. 64 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 105. 

 Mastaccembelu.s, sp., Klein, Pise. 3Iiss. iv. tab. 3. fig. 2. 

 Belone vulgaris, Flem. Brit. An. p. 184 ; Jen. Man. p. 418 ; Ekstrom, 



Fische Morho, p. 72; Parnell, Wern. Mem. vii. p. 274 ; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fish. i. p. .391, 2nd edit. i. p. 442, 3rd edit. i. p. 459 ; Cuv. ^- Val. 



xviii. p. 399 ; Miss. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 359. 



rosti-ata, Faber, Fische Isl. p. 152 ; Kroyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 257. 



Macrognathus scolopax, Gronov. Si/st. ed. Grai/, p. 147. 



Young. 

 Hemirhamphus em'opseus, Yarr. 3Iag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 505, and 



Brit. Fish. 2nd ed. i. p. 450, .jrd ed. i. p. 469; Couch, Zoologist, 



1848, p. 1978. figs, d & e, and Brit. Fish. iv. p. 135, pi. 208. 

 Esox brasiliensis ?, Coach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 85. 

 Hemirhamphus obtusus, Couch, Zoologist, p. 1978, figs, a-c, and Brit. 



Fish. iv. p. 139, pi. 208. 



balthicus, Hornsehuch. 



behuii. Van der Hoeven. 



Cf. a paper by Malm, Ofvers. Yetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 1852, tab. 3, 



where the author proves the identity of these fishes with Belcme. 



