15"-2 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



teetli in the upper jaw, and many smaller ones under the eye and 

 towards the corner of the mouth. Ten or eleven larger ones on the 

 mandible. 



Descr. The hinder nostril is situated on the point of a bladder- 

 like swelling. It is a very elongated species, and I can perceive 

 transverse rows of points, but no fins ; neither can I discover the 

 orifice of the anus; but in a small specimen it was 02 in. from 

 the tip of the tail. 



Two specimens from India, and two from the Maldives, exist in 

 the Paris collection, which received them from Dussumier in the 

 year 1830. Also a larger one and two small ones from the island 

 of Waigiou, and one small specimen from the neighbourhood of 

 the Marianne Islands, obtained by Quoy and Gaimard. 



Resembles marginatus in the interrupted transverse rows of 

 points. Perhaps this species also, in a recent state, possesses anal 

 and dorsal fins, and rows of black dots. 



20. Leptocephalus marginatos, Quoy d Gaimard, Kaup, 



fig. 19. ? 



Diagri. No teeth. Fine dots in rows on the dorsal and anal fin. 

 Under the lateral line, interrupted short transverse lines, with black 

 points. 



Descr. In the Paris collection there is a dried specimen laid out 

 on paper, marked Leptocephale horde, Q. & G., and accompanied 

 by the following note : " A species distinguished, when newly 

 taken, by a black line on the borders of the dorsal and anal fin ; 

 and further, by oblique black bars on the body." 



In a collection made on the same voyage in the Atlantic Ocean, 

 there are eleven specimens put into one bottle, whereof four are 

 examples of this species, and the remainder belong to Leptocephalus 

 tmiia. The mandible is somewhat curved upwards. In none of 

 the specimens could I see a trace of pectoral fins, and towards 

 the end of the tail only could I perceive traces of rays. The eyes 

 are silvery coloured. It has an equal breadth throughout, like 

 tasnia, and I conjecture that the anus is far back, as in that species. 

 Under the name of Kouleny, a small specimen was sent to the 

 Paris Museum from Pondicherry by Leschenault. 



21. Leptocephalus lineo-punctatus, Kaup, fig. 20. 



Diagn. This is also an elongated species, with rows of fine points 

 above the middle line and over the intestinal canal. 



Descr. Expanded on the same piece of paper with Leptocejyhahis 

 marginatus, there lay the fish of which we took the sketch pre- 

 sented above. It was labelled — " Probably another species of 

 Leptocephalus." 



It is altogether a distinct species, in which the dots on the lateral 

 line are so crowded together, that to the naked eye they form an 

 uninterrupted black line, which extends from the head to the end 



