126 THE REV. R. T. LOWE’S DESCRIPTION OF 
interval between the anterior and middle palatine teeth of the upper jaw: their points 
are equally directed backwards. A range of similarly shaped but much smaller teeth, 
to the number of eleven, immediately succeeds them. 
The vomer is devoid of teeth. 
The lower jaw is radiately striated externally from its angle: its plate is longitudi- 
nally striate: and oblique stri@ occupy its lower part anteriorly. 
The branchiostegous membrane is narrow and free: it is supported in one individual 
by six, and in the other by seven slender short rays. It opens forwards as far as the 
middle of the lower jaw. 
The cheeks are covered with smooth skin. 
The eye is very large; its diameter being one sixth of the length of the head, and 
more than one third of the depth at the part at which it is situated. It is placed mid- 
way between the nose and the extremity of the operculum, and close to the upper 
margin of the head. 
The pectoral fins immediately adjoin the head, and almost equal it in length. They 
are placed so low down as to be nearly on the ventral surface. They have each at 
their base, externally and posteriorly, a small pouch. Their form is lengthened and 
acute, and somewhat falcate. Their rays are fifteen in number: of these the first 
is the longest. It is simple, compressed, and somewhat serrated along its anterior 
margin. 
The first dorsal fin commences immediately over the edge of the operculum, and is 
continued for more than two thirds of the length of the body. It is very high, being 
at its middle, which nearly corresponds with the situation of the ventral fins, three 
times as high as the body at that part. Its outline is regularly rounded, the anterior 
ray being about one fourth of the greatest height, and the posterior gradually dimi- 
nishing to less than one half of the length of the first. The termination of this fin 
corresponds with the commencement of the anal. The rays supporting it are forty one 
in number, and the whole of them are simple. They are comparatively slender, but 
appear to be also very brittle: they do not terminate in stiff points. The anterior ray 
is somewhat serrated along its front edge. 
The second dorsal fin is placed midway between the termination of the first and the 
caudal. It is destitute of rays, and is entirely fatty. Its base is narrow, and it be- 
comes much wider outwardly ; its length at its external part exceeding its height. Its 
termination is a little anterior to the termination of the anal fin. 
The caudal fin is very large and powerful. It is forked nearly to the base, and is 
supported by nineteen rays, of which ten are in the upper and nine in the lower di- 
vision. Besides these there are numerous smaller rays both above and below, which 
do not reach to the extremity of the fork. The lobes are mutilated at the tips, but 
they must have exceeded one eighth of the total length of the fish. 
The anal fin equals at its base one tenth of the total length. It is supported by 
