8 
B. 14—16; D. 18—19; A. 9; P. 16—18; V. 9—11; L.l. 7o— 
80; L.tr. 15 (between D. and V.). 
Height 4'/,, head 3'/,. Dorsal much nearer to caudal than 
to end of snout. Origin of ventrals below last rays of dorsal. 
Silvery, olivaceous above, with faint dark streaks along the 
rows of scales. Black spot on tip of snout and nasal opening. 
Fins hyaline. Upper border of dorsal and caudal dusky. Young 
ones passing through leptocephaloid metamorphosis. Length 
“over goo mm. 
Nom. indig.: Bandang tjurorot (Mal. Batavia). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Samarang, Rembang, Surabaya); 
Madura; Bali; Sumatra (Trussan); Pinang; Banka; Biliton; 
Celebes (Macassar); Obi-major; Ambon; Saparua; Ceram; 
New Guinea. — Circumtropical. 
In sea and estuaries. 
3. Fam. NOTOPTERIDAE. 
Oblong, dorsal profile very convex. Very compressed. Belly 
with a double serrated ridge. Tail very elongate. Scales mi- 
nute, cycloid; a lateral line present.. Head scaled. Anterior 
nasal openings tubular. No suboperculum, operculum small, with 
a large posterior membranaceous flap; interoperculum hidden 
below praeoperculum, which is more or less serrated. Gape 
rather wide, bordered mesially by the intermaxillaries, later- 
ally by the maxillaries. Maxillary reaching below or behind 
eye. Teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. 
Short dorsal opposite to about the middle of the very long 
anal, which is confluent with the caudal. Ventrals united at 
their base, rudimentary. Gillmembranes united at their base, 
free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 7—9. No pseudobranchiae. 
Gillrakers few in number, stout; a series of blunt protube- 
rances at the innerside of the first branchial arch. 
I. Notopterus Lacépéde. 
(LAcEPEDE Hist. Nat. d. Poissons. II. 1800, p. 189). 
For characters of the single Indo-australian genus see those 
of the tamily. 
