lU. ELKdlN'US. 247 



c. Half-grown. Bay of IJengal. rivseiiU'dby the Zoological Society. 



d. Adult. India. Presented by G. K. Waterhousc, Es(j. 



e-(j. 7\.dult : stuffed. India. From the Collection of the East India 

 Company. 



10. ELEGINUS*. 



Eleginus, Cuv. S,- Val. v. p. 158. 



Body elongate, somewhat cylindrical ; cleft of the mouth small, 

 with the u^jper jaw rather longer ; eye lateral. Scales rather small, 

 minutely ciliated. Two dorsals, the tirst with eight or nine si^incs ; 

 ventrals jugular ; the lower pectoral rays branched. Yillitbrm teeth 

 in the jaws, none on the palate. Operculum without spine, prne- 

 opcrculum entire. Six branchiostegals ; psoudubranchiuD. Air- 

 bladder none ; jiyloric appendages in small number. 



Falkland Islands ; coast of Chile ; Port Jackson. 



1. Eleg^us maclovinus. 



Eleginus macloTinus, Cur. is; Va/. v. p. 15S. pi. 115 (not good) ; Less. 



Voy. Coq. Zoo!, ii. p. 202. pi. 17 (Allieriiianiacloviaua) (had); G<ii/, 



Hist. Chil. Zool. ii. p. 180. 

 fallflandicus, liicliards. Vui/. Ereh. iff Terr. Fishes, p. '60, pi. 20. 



f. 1-3 (vt'iy good). 



D. 8 I 26. A, 24. L. lat. 04. L. transv. G/18. Cac. pylor, 4. 



The spines and rays of the dorsal striolatcd Avith brown. The 

 hcia'ht of the body is one-fifth of the total length ; angle of the prae- 

 operculura rounded, obtuse. Greenish, with sm;ill blackish specks. 



Falkland Islands. 



a. Fourteen inches long. Falkland Islands. Presented by W. E. 



Wright, Esq. 

 b~d. Adult: bad state; have been in chloride of zinc. Falkland 



Islands. Presented by Sir J. Ilichardson. — Types of E. fuJlc- 



landicus. 



e. Adult. ]3erkeley Sound (Falkland Islands). Presented by Sir 



J. Ilichardson. 

 /, (J. vVdult : not good state. From the Collection of the East India 

 Company. 



2. Eleginus chilensis. 



Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 480 ; Gay, I. e. p. 187, Atl. Ictiol lam. 3. f. 1. 



D. 9 1 25. A. 23. 



The height of the body is one-sixth of the total length ; angle of 

 the prseoperculum nearly rectangular. Greenish : the second dorsal 

 and the caudal sometimes dotted with blackish. 



Coast of Clule. 



a. Adult : very bad state. Chile. From Mr. Bridge's Collection. 

 * 1. Eleginua bursinus, Cuv. ^- Val. m. p. 161. — Port Jackson. 



