]\K STROMATi:rs. 401 



total length. Lateral line not keeled. Silvcr}--^!^}-, minutely dotted 

 with black. 



East Indian Seas. 



a. Adult. China. 



b. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



c. d. Adult, Amoy (China). 



e, f. Young. China. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



(/.' Adult : bad state. Irom the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



/;. Half- grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



/. Half-grown : skin. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 k, I. Half-grown. Presented by Sir J. llichardson. 

 m. Half-g•ro^vn : dried. [? West India Islands.] Purchased of Mr. 



Scrivener. 

 n. Half-grown. 

 0. Skeleton. Purchased. 



I refer a sheJeton, not in a good state of preservation, which has 

 been purchased with the name of Stromatcus macroptenis, to this 

 species. The occipital crest is well developed, and extends on to the 

 front part of the snout ; the lateral crests are much lower and 

 shorter ; the upper part of the orbit is swollen and rugose. There 

 are fifteen abdominal and twenty-one caudal verteh'va?.^' , the length 

 of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the 

 latter as 1:1-5; the vertebrae are compressed in their longitudinal 

 diameter. The htcmal spines are stronger and longer than the 

 neurals, and the anterior ones compressed, so as to be in immediate 

 contact with one another. The interhsemals and the interneurals do 

 not leave an interspace between the single spines, and are highest on 

 the middle of the body. The first interhojnuil is strong and long, 

 directed obliquely backwards, and forke^l at its upper extremity, the 

 fork embracing the four anterior ha^mals. The ulna is very ])road ; 

 the pubie bones are confounded into a single sa})ro-shaped bone, 

 extending from the symphysis of the humeral bones nearly to the 

 lower extremity of the first interhoemal. 



9. Stromateus niger. 



Renard, i. pi. 5. f. 38 ; EiisseU, i. p. 32. pi. 43. 



Stromateus niger, Block, xii. p. 93. taf. 422 ; Bl. Schn. p. 492. tab. 93 ; 



Shaio, Zool. iv. p. Ill; Cur. ^- Val. ix. p. 385 ; Caid. Ann. i<f Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ix. p. 15, and Catal. p. 139 ; Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 272; 



Blecker, Makr. p. 370, and Vcrh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Mah: ]). 77. 

 paru, Bl. v. p. 75 : Bl. Schn. p. 491 ; Laccp. ii. n. 319 ; Shaio, 



Zuol. iv. p. 108. 



fiatola, Bl. tab. KiO. 



Apolectus stromateus, Cur.^- Val. viii. p. 4-39. pi. 238 ; Canf. Catal. p. 123. 

 h Seseriuus vachellii, Richards. Ichth. Ciiiii. p. ^73. 



Scales small. Ventrals jugular and slender in yoimg specnnens, 



* Cuvier stales (ilU'Cii abdoniinal, and as many caudal vcrtubrtu in liiw RhonL- 

 bus .ranthui'us. 



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