86 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



The figure in the " Ichthyology of the Voyage of the ' Sulphur,'" 

 was takeu from a drawing executed under the eye of Mr. Reeves, at 

 Canton ; but the specimen presented by that gentleman to the Bri- 

 tish Museum has much coarser pale lines, with dilatations at the 

 points of intersection. * 



Length, 2G in. To anus, 11 in. To gill-opening, 26 in. 

 [Richardson.) 



Sea of China. Estuaries. 



153. TntRSOIDEA SATHETE, fig. 63. 



Mursenophis sathete. Ham., Fish, of the Ganges, 17 and 363; 



Icon. Hardw. hwl. No. 308, upper Jig. (British Museum). 

 Murtena sathete, Rich., Ereh. S Terr. 91 ; Cantor, Mai. Fish. 331. 



Diagn. Brown, with dull yellow throat and belly. Lateral line 

 rendered conspicuous by a series of silvery dots, and the dorsal 

 coloured grayish-purple. 



Nasal teeth, 12 or 14, in one marginal series, each curved back- 

 wards so acutely as to form a slight notch in the middle of the pos- 

 terior side, their cusps being compressed, but not pointed. Two 

 stout conical and not acute teeth, stand on the mesial line of the 

 disk ; and the vomerine teeth are disposed in two lines, which 

 coalesce behind, each line containing 6 or 7 small rounded teeth, 

 headed by one larger than the rest. Palatine teeth in two rows ; 

 the outer row composed of 12, smaller than the nasal teeth, and 

 more closely set, but of similar form and curvature, having their 

 cusps, however, more compressed and acute edged ; the inner row 

 contains 10 or 11 taller and more slender cylindrical teeth, with 

 acute, but somewhat oblique, cusps. The mandible is armed on the 

 two posterior thirds of each limb by 1 1 or 12, similar to the exte- 

 rior palatines ; and on the anterior third by two rows ; the outer 

 row consisting of 8 conical or cylindrical and rather obtuse teeth 

 on each limb, smaller than the lateral ones ; and the inner row of 

 about 5, rather longer than the latter, but similar in form. 



Dorsal commencing about half-way between the gill-opening and 

 the nape. 



In the dried skin some of the pores have become deep black 

 dots, of which one series can be traced over the gill-opening, and a 

 short way along the side, in the course of the lateral line ; another 

 row runs from the angle of the mouth over the branchial membrane, 

 and there are a few pores under the jaw. 



Length, 325 in. To anus, about 15*5 in. To gill-opening, 3'6 

 in. 



India (British Museum. A dried skin from J. Reeves, Esq.). 



• I have great doubts of the figure, in the voyage of tlie '■' Sulphur," executed 

 from a Chinese drawing in possession of Mr. Reeves, being a representation of the 

 fish here described by Sir John Richardson. (Kaup.) 



