472 cr,i]'];ii>,T;. 



tending to below, or even somewhat behind, the posterior part of 

 the orbit. 



From the east coast of Africa to Polynesia and Australia ; enter- 

 ing fresh waters. 



a. a'. Half- grown. Zanzibar. 



b. Half-grown : skin. Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. Playfair's Col- 



lection. 



c. Half-grown; skin. Eiver Shire. Presented by Dr. Kirk. 

 d-g. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by Capt Mitchell. 

 7i-i. Young. Bengal. Presented by G. E.. Waterhouse, Esq. 

 Jc-I. Half-grown : skins. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 ?n. Half-grown. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



n. Young: skin. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. — This 

 specimen has thirty-seven scales in the lateral line, and not 

 twenty-nine as stated by Cantor. — Ty^je of M. oligolepis, Blkr. 



0. Half- grown. Sumatra. 



p. Half-grown. Java. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection as M. Tcun- 

 clinga. 



q-r. Half-grown and young. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 



s. Half-grown. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection as M. macropterus. 



t. Half-grown. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection as M. cyprinokles. 



II. Half-grown. East- Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection as M.filamentosus. 



V. Half-grown. Formosa. From Consul Swinhoe's Collection. 



lu. Half-grown: skin. Aneiteum. From Mr. MacGillivray's Collec- 

 tion. 



X, y, z-a. Half-grown and young. Cape York, North Australia. 



/3, y. Half- grown. Port Essington. 



l-e. Half-grown : skins. Freshwater swamp near Victoria ; Port 

 Essington. 



li. Half-grown. Old Collection. 



r]-i. Young. From the Haslar Collection. 



2. Megalops thrissoides. 



Camaripucuagii, Marcgr. Bras. p. 179; Pismi. p. 65; Jonston, p. 196, 

 tab. 35. fig. 10 ; Willughhy, p. 230, tab. P. 6. fig. 1 ; Ruysch, Hist. 

 Pise. p. 137, tab. 35. fig. lO. 



Clupea cyprinoides, Bl. ix. p. 32 (part.), tab. 403 ; Lac6p. v. pp. 424, 

 461. 



thrissoides, Bl. Schn. p. 424 (part.). 



apalike, Lacep. v. pp. 425, 461. 



gigantea, Shaw, Zool. v. 1. p. 173, 



Megalops atlanticus, Cuv. 8f Val. xix. p. 398. 



giganteus, Bleek. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1866, p. 282. 



B. 22-24. D. 14-16. A. 22-24. L. lat. 42-45. 

 Ventral fin conspicuously in advance of the origin of the dorsal ; 

 maxillary generally extending beyond the orbit. 

 Atlantic, entering fresh waters. 



