L"^. ciiAxts. 473 



a. Sixty-two inches long : stuffed. Old Collection, 

 h-c. Adult and half-grown : skins. Jamaica. Purchased of Dr. Par- 

 nell. 



d. Half-grown : skin. Cuba. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society, 



e. Half-grown: skin. Trinidad. Presented by J. B. Eichardson, Esq. 

 /. Young. Demerara. Presented by Dr. Hancock. 



g. Half-grown. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



Seventh Group. CHANINA. 



Mouth small, anterior, transverse. Ifo teeth. Intermaxillary 

 in juxtaposition to the upper anterior edge of maxillary ; abdo- 

 men flat ; gill-membranes entirely united. 



18. CHANOS. 



Chanos, Lacep. v. p. 395. 

 Lutodeira, Kuhl, Riqrpell. 



Body oblong, compressed ; abdomen flat. Scales small, striated, 

 adherent : lateral line distinct. Snout depressed ; mouth small, ante- 

 rior, transverse, the lower jaw with a small symphysial tubercle. 

 Intermaxillary in juxtaposition to the upper anterior edge of the 

 maxillary. Teeth none. Dorsal fin opposite to the ventrals ; anal 

 smaU, shorter than dorsal ; caudal deeply forked. Gill-membranes 

 entirely united below, and free from the isthmus. Branchiostegals 

 four, long. Pseudobranchiae well developed. An accessory branchial 

 organ in a cavity behind the gill- cavity proper. Air-bladder divided 

 by a constriction into an anterior and posterior portion. Mucous 

 membrane of the oesophagus raised into a spiral fold. Pyloric appen- 

 dages numerous ; intestine with many convolutions. 



Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



On the accessory branchial organ and the skeleton see Hyrtl, 

 Denkschr. -Ak. Wiss. Wien, xxi. 1863, p. 1. 



1. Chanos salmoneus. 



Renard, Poiss. d'Amb. fol. 34. no. 184. 



Mugil chanos, Forsk. Descr. An. p. 74 ; Bl. Schn. p. 116, 



salmoneus, (Forst.) Bl. Schn. p. 121 j Forst. Descr. Anim. ed. 



Lichtenstein, p. 299. 

 Chanos arabicus, Lacep. v. p. 396 ; Cuv. 8f Val. xix. p. 187. 

 Palah boDtah, JRussell, ii. pi. 207. 

 Tooleloo, Russell, ii. pi. 208. 

 Cyprinus (Leuciscus) palah, Cuv. Rbgne Anim. 



tolo, Cuv. Reffne Anim. 



Leuciscus zeylonicus, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 184. 

 Lutodeira chanos, (Kuhl) Riipp. N. W. Fiscke, p. 18, tab. 5. fig. 1 ; 



CHinth. in Fish. Zanz. p. 120. 



