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band of conical, pointed teeth, intermixed with larger ones, 

 which form slender canines. No teeth on vomer. Origin of 

 anal somewhat in advance of that of dorsal, all the dorsal 

 and anal rays connected by a membrane. Caudal forked. Scales 

 very small, adherent. Lateral line running low down, without 

 distinct keel on caudal peduncle. Gillopenings wide. Gillrakers 

 absent. Lower pharyngeal narrow, elongate. Second third and 

 fourth pair of upper pharyngeals dentigerous. 



Distribution: that of the only species known. 



I. Athlennes hians (C. V.) [Fig, 49, p. 130]. 



Bclone crocodila Bleeker, Nat. en deneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie II (3) 1845, p. 512 



(nee Lesueur). 

 Belone hians Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 432. 

 Belotie nielanosiigma Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 450. 



Belone gracilis Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons II, 1847, p. 246 (nee Lowe). 

 Belone schismatorhynchus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, I. 1850, p. 95. — 



Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXIV. 1852, Snoekacht. Visschen, p. 15. 

 Belone gracilis Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXVI. 1854 — 1857, Nieuwe nalez. 



Japan, p. 116 (nee Lowe). 

 Belone schismatorhynchus Kner, Novara Exp. I. Fische, 1865 — 1867, p. 322. 

 Mastacetnbelus gracilis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk III. 1866, p. 230. (nee Lowe). 

 Belone 'schismatorhynchus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 239. 

 Mastacemheh<s schismatorhynchus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 49. 

 Belone melanostigma Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Gesellsch. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 581. 

 Belone melanostigma Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 509. 

 Belone gracilis Nystrom, Bihang till K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl, XIII. Afd. IV. 



N°. 4, 1887, p. 44. (nee Lowe). 

 Athlennes hians Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America, 



Part I, 1896, p. 718. 

 Tylosurus schismatorhynchus Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. 



1903, p. 528. 

 Athlennes hians Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, p. 433. 

 Athlennes hians Jordan & Evermann, ibid. XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 125. 

 Tylosurus caeruleofasciatus Stead, New Fish N. S. Wales Dep. Fish. New South 



Wales N°. i, 1908, p. 3. 

 Belone hians Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Ileft VIII. 1909, p. 353. 

 Athlennes caeruleofasciatus Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Mus. V. 191 6, p. 130. 

 Athlennes caeruleofasciatus McCulloch, Check-list of fish of N. S. Wales, Prt. II. 



1919, p. 36. 



D. 2.21 — 23; A. 2.23 — 25; p. 1. 13; V. 1.5; L.l. 450 — 490. 



Very strongly compressed, the breadth going 2.4 — 2.7 in 

 the length of the body. Height 10 — 16, 12 — 18 in length with 

 caudal. Head 3 — 3.5, 3.3 — 4 in length with caudal. Eye 2.1 — 2.6 

 in postorbital part of head, equal to or shorter than inter- 



