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ventrals and anal are pale and transparent, and the pectoral lemon-yellow. The scales of the 
lateral line are marked by the same kind of silvery furrows as M. setipinnis, 
Hab. Chinese seas. 
ELops MAcHNATA, Forskal, No. 100 (Argentina). Synode chinois, Lacép. 
Vv. p. 319.322. pl. 10. f.1. male. Jinagow, Russell, 179. Elops machnata, 
Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Ereb, and Terror, p. 59. pl. 36. fig. 3-5. 
Icon. Reeves, 137; Hardw. Malac. . Chinese name, Chuh kheaou, 
“‘ Bamboo ” (Reeves). 
Mr. Reeves has deposited a specimen from Canton in the British Museum. This fish is 
totally distinct from the Mugil salmoneus of Forster, a figure of which is given in the ‘ Ich- 
thyology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,’ pl. 36. fig. 1, 2. 
Hab. Seas of China and India. Red sea. 
Etors purrurAscens, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, a. 53; Hardw. Malac. 
- Chinese name, Chuh kin, “ Variegated bamboo” (Reeves). Length 
of figure 103 inches. 
This drawing does not differ very greatly from the preceding one in form, but it represents 
a fish having a more irregular dorsal outline and Jess arched, a more convex belly, and the 
lateral line slightly decurved throughout its whole length. The face is gibbous just before 
the eye, and there is a less marked convexity at the nape. The summit of the back is grass- 
green, beneath which a blackish-purple band extends from the nape to the upper lobe of the 
caudal, terminating rather abruptly about half-way to the lateral line. The rest of the side 
is brightly silvery with a slight gloss of pearl-gray. The top of the head is grass-green. 
The edges of the maxillaries and gill-pieces are green and crimson. The dorsal and caudal 
are leek-green, passing into blackish-green on the rays and edges; the ventrals and anal are 
pale mountain-green with some yellow; and the pectorals are bright sulphur-yellow sprinkled 
with a few dark green specks. The cluster of black dots on the cheeks and preopertulum 
of EZ. machnata are not shown in this figure. 
Hab. Chinese seas. 
Currocenrrus porap, Forskal, No. 108 (Clupea). Clupea dentex, Bl. 
Schn. 428. L’Esoce chirocentre, Lacép. Wahlah, Russell, 199 ; Descript. 
of Anim. p. 194. fig. 161, taken at Madras and named by Broussonnet 
Eisox clupeoides. Icon. Reeves, B. 47; Hardw. Malac. 237, Chinese ; 
Hardw. Malac. 239, Indian. Chinese name, Poo édou, “Cloth knife” 
(Birch); Poo tou, “ Knife cloth” (Reeves); Po to (Bridgem. Chrest. 90). 
Rad. D.16; A. 34, first two minute; C. 1912; P.16; V.7. Length of 
spec. 10} inches. Genus, Chirocentrus, Cuv. Régn. An. 
The British Museum possesses a specimen in spirits from Canton presented by Mr. Reeves, 
which we have not had an opportunity of comparing with the Indian fish. The drawings 
of the latter differ a little in the position of the ventrals, but as this may have been owing 
to inattention, we have not kept the Chinese fish distinct. 
_ The Chinese specimen has a long canine on each small transverse intermaxillary. The 
Strap-shaped maxillary reaches to the middle of the orbit and the articulation of the lower 
jaw; its edge is armed with small subulate teeth, which become very minute towards its tip. 
Hach limb of the lower jaw is furnished with five or six tall slender teeth inclining backwards, 
and having.a short tooth between each pair. The ventrals are as near as possible in the mid- 
dle of the length, excluding the whole caudal fin from the bases of its lobes. A long nacry 
appendage exists in front of the pectoral, and there is another in its axilla; but the rest of 
the skin is wrinkled and smooth, withont scales, and resembling fine tinfoil in its lustre. The 
teeth on the edge of the belly, shown in Mr. Reeves’s figure, are not formed by pungent 
scales, but by the points of the ribs. The belly is acute, like a knife, from the gills to the 
anal. The cheek is soft and nacry, and the skin of the temples is striated. The head has a 
scomberoid aspect above and its lateral ridges are smooth. 
_ The colour of the back is pistachio-green, the rest of the fish brightly silvery with purplish 
teflexions, and the courses of the muscles are shown by oblique lines meeting in the middle 
height. Fins yellowish-gray, the edgés of the caudal shaded with blackish-gray. 
Hab. Seas of India ard China. 
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