362 NANDIU^. 



longest, and extends to, or somewhat beyond, the anal. The ventrals 

 thoracic and very short, with one spine and five soft rays. 



The colour (in a dried state) is a yellowish-olive, bluish-rose- 

 coloured on the back (during life) ; the caudal has two deep-black 

 parallel and horizontal bands. 



Both the jaws are armed with a viUiform band of teeth and with 

 an outer series of stronger conical teeth ; there is a recurved tooth 

 at the posterior extremity of the intermaxillary bone. Palate without 

 any teeth. 



inches, lines. / 



Total length 9 6 



Height of the body 1 1 



Length of the head 1 11, 



"Width of the head between the orbits .... 5| 



Diameter of the eye 5 



Height of the dorsal 8 



Length of the caudal 1 



Fam. 33. NANDID^. 



Pseudochromides, pt., et Mfenoidei, pt., Midler ^ Trosch. Hor. Ichth. 



Body oblong, compressed, covered with scales. Lateral line in- 

 terrupted. Dorsal fin formed by a spinous portion and by a soft, the 

 latter being the less developed ; anal fin ^vith three spines, and with 

 its soft portion similar to the soft dorsal. Ventral fins thoracic, with 

 one spine and five or four soft rays. Dentition more or less com- 

 plete, generally feeble. Five or six branchiostegals ; giUs four, or 

 three and a half; pseudobranchise present in the marine, absent 

 or hidden in the freshwater genera. An air-bladder. No super- 

 branchial organ. 



Carnivorous fishes. 



Synopsis of the Groups and Genera. 

 First Group : Flesiopina. 



Pseudobranchiae present. Ventral rays four. 

 From the Red Sea to the Pacific. 



The first ventral ray bifid and elongate 1 . Plesiops, p. 363. 



None of the ventral rays elongate 2. THACiiiNOrs, p. 36(5. 



