19. STROITATEUS. 401 



total length. Lateral Hue not keeled. Silvery-grey, minutely dotted 

 with black. 



East Indian Seas. 

 a. Adnlt. China. 



h. Adult : stuffed. China, Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 

 c, d. Adult. Anioy (China). 



e, f. Young. China. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 g. Adult : bad state. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 li. Half- grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 (. Half-groMTi : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 h, 1. Half-grown. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 m. Half-gTown : dried. [? West India Islands.] Purchased of Mr. 



Scrivener. 

 71. Half-grown. 

 0. Skeleton. Purchased. 



I refer a skeleton, not in a good state of preservation, which has 

 been purchased with the name of Stromaieus macropterus, to this 

 species. The occipital crest is well developed, and extends on to the 

 front part of the snout ; the lateral crests are much lower and 

 shorter ; the upper part of the orbit is swollen and nigose. There 

 are fifteen abdominal and twenty-one caudal vertehrm*, the length 

 of the former poi-tion of the vertebral column being to that of the 

 latter as 1: l-o; the vertebrte are compressed in their longitudinal 

 diameter. The haemal spines are stronger and longer than the 

 neurals, and the anterior ones compressed, so as to be in immediate 

 contact with one another. The interhsemals and the intemeurals do 

 not leave an interspace between the single spines, and are highest on 

 the middle of the body. The first tnterhisemal is strong and long, 

 directed obliquely backwards, and forked at its upper extremity, the 

 fork embracing the four anterior hsemals. The ulna is veiy broad ; 

 the pubic bones are confounded into a single sabre-shaped bone, 

 extending from the symphysis of the humeral bones nearly to the 

 lower extremity of the first interhacmal. 



9. Stromateus niger. 



Renard, i. pi. 5. f. 38 ; Russell, i. p. 32. pi. 43. 



Stromateus niger, Block, xii. p. 93. taf. 422 ; Bl ScJui. p. 492. tab. 93 ; 



Shaw, Zool. iv. p. Ill ; Cur. ^- Vol. ix. p. 385 ; Cunt. Ann. Sf Maq. 



Nat. Hut. ix. p. 15, and Catal. p. 139 ; Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 272; 



Bheker, Makr. p. 370, and Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Makr. p. 77. 

 pam, Bl. v. p. 75; BL Schn. p. 491 ; Lacep. ii. p. 319; Shaw, 



Zool. iv. p. 108. 



fiatola, Bl. tab. 160. 



Apolectus stromateus, Cuv.i^ Val. viii. p. 439. pi. 238 ; Cant. Catal. p. 123. 

 ? Seserinus vachellii, Richards. Ichth. CJiin. p. 273. 



Scales small. Yentrals jugular and slender in young specimens, 



* Cuvicr states fiftoen abdominal, and as many caudal vertebra; in his Uhom- 

 his xanthurus. 



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