5. DiOROTxrs. 349 



6. Trichiurus lajor. 



Bleeker, Celebes, v. p. 248. 



D. 128. 

 The height of the body is 16 times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 8 times ; the length of the snout is not quite twice the 

 diameter of the eye. Silvery. (BJeek.) 

 Sea of Manado. 



4. EPINNULA. 



Epinnula, Poey, Memor. Cub. p. 369. 



Body rather elongate ; cleft of the mouth wide. The first dorsal 

 continuous, A\dth the spines of moderate strength, and extending on 

 to the second ; spuxious fins none ; ventrals weU developed. Scales 

 minute ; lateral lines two. Teeth of the jaws strong ; on the palatine 

 bones none. No keel on the tail. Seven branchiostegals. Air-bladder 

 present. Pyloric appendages in moderate number. 



Caribbean Sea. 



1. Epinnula magistralis. 



Poei/, I. c. tab. 32. f. 3, 4. 



D. 15 I ^. A.^. V. 1/5. Cffic. pylor. 10. 



Ventral fins situated behind the pectorals. The upper maxillary 

 reaches to below the middle of the eye. Coloration uniform. {Poey.) 



Havannah. 



5. DICROTUS*. 



Body rather elongate, compressed ; cleft of the mouth wide. The 

 first dorsal continuous, with the spines of moderate strength, and 

 extending on to the second ; finlets none. Ventral reduced to a long 

 crenulated spine. Praeoperculum with several spines at the angle. 

 Body naked. Several strong canines in the jaws ; minute teeth on 

 the vomer and the palatine bones. No keel on the tail. Seven 

 branchiostegals. Pseudobranchiae. 



Hah. ? 



1. Dicrotus annatus. 



D. 18 I 18. A.^. V. 1. 



The height of the body is 6 1 in the total length, the length of the 

 head 3i. The maxiUary reaches to below the anterior margin of the 

 eye ; praeoperculum with two spines at the angle ; operculum termi- 

 nating in two obtuse points, separated by a notch. The dorsal spines 

 are of moderate strength, and tubercular ; the second to the fifth 

 are the longest, and as high as the body ; the posterior ones gradually 

 decrease in length ; caudal forked ; anal spines short ; pectoral of 



* SiKpoTOi, with two oars. 



