140 
6. Origin of ventrals below dorsal. Eye ordinary. 
TD) i 3.3 Stee, ves foe oy Muchos Cereus (ergot aN Evermanella p. 182. 
II. Scales at least in lateral line. 
a. Body totally scaly. 
1, Origin of dorsal before ventrals. Ventrals 
shorter than pectorals. Eye large. Lower jaw 
prominent with a dentigerous plate. .... Chloropthalmus p. 177. 
2. Origin of dorsal behind origin of ventrals. 
Ventrals longer than pectorals. Eye mode- 
rate. Jaws equal or subequal, without den- 
tigerous plate. 
a. Two bands of teeth on each side of 
palate. Inner rays of ventrals not much 
longerithansthe toutermones sas eee eneiene Saurida p. 140. 
P. One band of teeth on each side of palate. 
Inner rays of ventrals much longer than 
the#outersoneshsmmeiy eae ene een Saurus p. 144. 
6, Scales only in lateral line well developed. 
I. Intermaxillary with a prominent triangular 
tooth. Eye about in the middle of the head. 
@nginvof vanal@belowsdorsal een ecient Promacheon p. 183. 
2. Upper jaw rounded. Eye near tip of snout. 
Origin ‘of anal behind ‘dorsal 4.3 2.0 1. G farpodon p. 150. 
I. .saurida «CoV. 
(Cuvier & VALENCIENNES Hist. Nat. Poissons, XXII. 1849, p. 499). 
Elongate, subcylindrical, tail tapering, covered with cycloid 
scales of moderate size. Lateral line straight, more or less 
conspicuously keeled on the tail. Head oblong, depressed, with 
a rather short pointed snout and a very wide cleft of mouth, 
bordered by the very long styliform intermaxillary to which 
the thin long maxillary is closely adherent. Eye of moderate 
size, partly covered by an anterior and posterior adipose eyelid. 
The short dorsal nearly in the middle of the length, behind 
it the small adipose fin, which is opposite to the short anal. 
Caudal forked. Pectorals above the middle of the height, rather 
short. Ventrals g-rayed, with the inner rays not much longer 
than the outer ones and inserted before dorsal. Teeth in the 
jaws in several irregular rows, unequal in size, pointed, depres- 
sible and more or less curved. Similar ones on the palate in 
2 bands on each side, the inner band much shorter, the outer 
