1. BELONE. 255 



B. 12. D. 17-19. A. 21-22. P. 12. V. 6. Vert. 52/28. 



Tail compressed, deeper than broad. The length of the head is 

 two-sevenths of the total (without caudal) ; its upper surface with- 

 out median groove ; superciliary region faintly striated ; base of the 

 intermaxillaries somewhat compressed, maxillary entirely hidden by 

 the prseorbital. Teeth very small ; vomerine teeth present, forming 

 a small, short, ovoid patch. The diameter of the eye is less than the 

 width of the interorbital space, and contained twice and two-thirds 

 in the length of the postorbital portion of the head. Body com- 

 pressed, its depth being nearly equal to the length of the pectoral 

 fin, which is but little less than the distance of the opercular margin 

 from the orbit. Ventral fin nearly midway between root of the 

 caudal and opercular margin. The middle and hinder dorsal and 

 * anal rays subequal in length, short, the last terminating at a con- 

 siderable distance from the root of the caudal. Caudal fin forked. 

 Scales very thin and small, deciduous. 



Northern coasts of Europe. 



a. Adult. English coast. Presented by Messrs. Gibson and Quelch. 



This specimen has lost the vomerine teeth. 

 b-g. Adult : skins in bad state. Firth of Forth. From Mi*. Par- 



nell's Collection. 

 h. Adult. Old CoUection. 

 i. Four and a half inches long. Cornwall. Presented by J. Couch, 



Esq., as Hemirhamphus europceus. 

 k-l. Three inches long. Bohusliin. Presented by Hr. A. W. Malm. 



44. Belone cornidii. 



Aguja paladar, Cornide, Feces Galic. p 88. 



B. 12. D. 16. A. 19-21. P. 13. V. 6. 



Very similar to B. vulgaris. 



Tail compressed, deeper than broad. The length of the head is a 

 little less than one-third of the total (without caudal) ; its upper 

 surface without median groove ; superciliary region faintly striated ; 

 base of the intermaxillaries scarcely compressed, maxillary entirely 

 hidden by the prseorbital. Teeth more numerous and considerably 

 stronger than in B. vulgaris ; vomerine teeth present, forming a 

 longish band, tapering i^osteriorly. The diameter of the eye is 

 scarcely less than the width of the interorbital space, and contained 

 twice and two-thirds in the length of the postorbital portion of the 

 head. Body compressed, its depth being nearly equal to the length of 

 the pectoral fin, which is but little less than the distance of the oper- 

 cular margin from the orbit. Ventral fin nearly midway between the 

 root of the caudal and the opercular margin. The middle and hinder 

 dorsal and anal rays subequal in length, short, the last terminating at 

 a considerable distance from the root of the caudal. Caudal fin forked. 

 Scales very thin and deciduous, but larger than in B. vulgaris. 



Coast of Portugal. 



a. Twenty inches long. Lisbon. Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



b. Adult. Atlantic. From the Berlin Museum (as B. argalus). 



