362 NANDID-S:. 



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 -oHve, 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 vilHform 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 Msenoidei, pt., M'dller Sf 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 fiji with 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 ; gills four, or 

 three and a half; pseudobranchiae 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 : Plesiopina. 



Pseudobranchiae present. Ventral rays four. 

 From the lied Sea to the Pacific. 



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



None of the ventral rays elongate 2. TRACiiiNor.% p. 366. 



