86 
suboperculum. Anal 2!/, in length. 
Greatest convexity of abdominal profile 
beforesbase ot pectorals; 1 -uel ei -nel- P. macrogaster p. 93. 
@. Ventrals situated midway between anal 
and suboperculum. Anal 22/3;—23/,. 
Greatest convexity of abdominal pro- 
file between pectorals and ventrals. . . P. xanthoptera p. 94. 
1. Pellona hoevenii Blkr. 
Pellona Hoevenii Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht., p. 21. 
Pellona hoevenii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 455. 
llisha Hoevenii Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 117. 
Pellona Hoevenii Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 644. 
B. 6; D. 17—18; A. 33=—37; Po 18s V. 7; Labeno—as; 
L. tr. 12—13. 
Oblong, compressed, lower profile not much more convex 
than dorsal. Height 2%/,—3, head 3—3'/,,- eye 2°/,—3, "4 
longer than snout, about as long as postorbital part of head. 
On each side of the head a pair of parallel lines, which 
diverge hindwards, till a point on the occiput where the two 
lines meet in one ridge which converges hindwards with that 
of the other side. Maxillary reaches about to below the middle 
of eye, 2 in head. Its oral border is supplemented by a small 
toothed bone, which reaches from the lateral end of the 
intermaxillary to the promi- 
nent middle of the maxillary. 
There are two dorsal supple- 
mental bones, the larger of 
which reaches nearly to the 
hindborder of the maxillary. 
Origin of dorsal midway be- 
tween caudal and snout or a 
__ little nearer to the lastnamed, 
~ Intermaxillary, # maxillary, 7 ossified 4 little nchind orien omens 
ligament between them, s s’ supplemental A — 
Bones: cee trals, which are situated much 
nearer to anal than to suboper- 
culum. Ventrals much smaller than eye. Pectorals shorter than 
head without snout, not reaching to ventrals. Anal 3'/,—3?/, in 
length (without caudal), its origin below or a little before 
base of last dorsal ray. Caudal scaly, deeply incised nearly as 
long as head. Teeth on palatines, pterygoids, tongue and small 
Fig. 29. Pellona hoevenii Blkr. 
