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the vomer and the palatine bones. Scales of moderate size, cycloid. 

 Seven branchiostegals ; air-bladder simple ; pyloric appendages in 

 moderate number. 



East Indian Seas ; Polynesia. 



1. Toxotes jaculator. 



Scisena jaculatrix, roll. Spicil. viii. p. 41, and Phil. Treats, vol. hi. 



1760, p. 186, tab. viii. f. (scales too small). 

 Scarus schlosseri, L. Gm. p. 1282; Lacep. iv. pp. 5, 17; SJtair, Zool. 



iv. p. 398. 

 Labrus jaculatrix, Lacop. iii. pp. 425, 464; Shaio. Zool. iv. p. 485. 



pi. 68. 

 Cojus chatareus, Buck. Hain. pp. 201, 370. pi. 14. f. 34. 

 Toxotes jacidator, Cuv. ^- Val. vii. p. 314. pi. 192 ; Cant. Cntiil. p. 176 ; 



Agass. Poiss. Foss. iv. p. 262. pi. 11 ; Cuv. Rcf/ne Aiiim. III. Pom. 



pi. 44. f. 3; Sleeker, Vcrh. Batac. Gcnootsch. xxiii. Chcetod. p. 31. 



D. -i-. A. r-^. L. lat. 28. L. transv. ?^. Cajc. pvlor. 7-9. 



11—13 15—1/ /~" *' 



Vert. 10/14. 



The length of the snout equals tlie width of the space between 

 the eyes. Greenish, with broad darker bands or spots across the back. 

 East Indian Seas ; Polynesia. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Calcutta, Purchased of Mr. \^'arwick, 

 h. Adult : skeleton, AmbojTia. Purchased of Mr, Frank. 



c. Half-grown, Molucca Sea, Purchased of Mr, Frank, 



d, e. Half-grown and young. North Australian Expedition. Pre- 



sented by Dr. J, B,, Elsey, 

 /, Half-grown, India, 

 g. Adult, Old Collection. 

 )i. AdiUt: stuffed. 



Skeleton.— The conformation of the skull and of the whole skeleton 

 i.s so totaUj' different from that of Chcetodon, that we should be 

 fully justified in separating Toxotes from this family ; and it might 

 perhaps be much better to place it as a separate groiip or family, 

 near the Apogonina. The maxillary bone is very slender, and shows 

 no dilatation at the posterior extremity : the descending branch of 

 the intermaxillary is similar in form to the maxiUary, but the uppei* 

 portion of the bone is much dilated, and has short posterior pro- 

 cesses. The mandibula is thin and transparent, highest posteriorly, 

 and gradually tapering anteriorly ; there is no free space between 

 the dentary and articular bones. The head of the vomer is snbovate, 

 broader than long, riud entirely covered with minute teeth ; the pa- 

 latine and pterygoid bones have similar teeth, those of the formci 

 forming a narrow cuneiform band, of the latter an exceedingly large, 

 elliptical patch ; the glossohyal is well developed, broad, ovate, and 

 toothed like the pterygoid. The prseoperculiun has neither a distinct 

 interior ridge nor a muciferous channel ; its limbs meet at a right 

 angle ; the lower is serrated, and nearly one-half the length of the 

 posterior. Tlie operculum is crescent-shaped, ^vith the upper p^iit 



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