478 CARANGIDiE. 



ff. Adiilt. Senegal. 



h. Half-grown: stuffed. Cape Seas. From Sir A. Smith's Collection. 



i, h. Half- grown. India. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



I. Half- grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



m. Half-grown : bad state. 



n-p. Half-grown. 



q. Adult: skeleton. 



Pseudohranclilce none. 



The skeleton shows a great similarity to that of Chorinenius : there 

 is a high occipital crest extending on to the anterior extremity of 

 the frontal bones ; the two lateral crests are well developed, the in- 

 terior proceeding fi-om the anterior angle of the orbit, the exterior 

 from the superciliary margin. The basal portion of the brain-capsule 

 is rather compressed, and the basisphenoid has a prominent process 

 on each side, immediately before the occipital joint. The head of 

 the vomer is flat, and armed with a subquadi'angular patch of minute 

 villiform teeth ; the palatine bones have a narrow band, but the 

 pterygoids are destitute of teeth. The posterior portion of the max- 

 illary is rather broad ; the intermaxillary is feeble, with a slight 

 prominence behind, and with the posterior processes of moderate 

 length. The mandibula has neither ridge nor muciferous channel, 

 and there is a very narrow slit between the dentary and the arti- 

 cular bone. The praeoperculum is flat and smooth, with the interior 

 ridge very depressed; its lower limb is shorter than its posterior. 

 The operculum is not quite twice as high as wide, and has a slight 

 notch in its posterior margin. The suboperculum is shorter than 

 the interoperculura. The pubic bones are little developed and slen- 

 der ; each is composed of four very narrow laminae. 



There are ten abdominal and fourteen caudal vertebrce, the length 

 of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the 

 caudal as 1 : 1-5. The neiu-al and hojmal spines are rather stout, 

 and those of the abdominal portion laterally compressed. There are 

 four spurious interneurals, each of which terminates superiorly in a 

 spine directed forwards ; the foiu-th is the strongest, and its spine 

 can be seen externally. The first interhsemal is strong, inferiorly 

 dilated in a triangular process, pointing forwards ; it is firmly joined 

 to the first haemal spine. The other interneui'als and interhgemals 

 are dilated, thin, and transparent. 



3. Lichia vadigo. 



Tertia Glauci species, Rotidel. p. 255. 

 Centronotus glaycos, Lacep. iii. p. 315. 



Aadigo, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 190. 



Lichia vadigo, Risso, Em: Merid. iii. p. 430 ; Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 363. 



pi. 235. 

 Temnodon vadigo, Lowe, Proe. Zool Soc. 1850, p. 248. 



The height of the body is one-fourth of the total length ; the 



