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19. LEPIDOPUS CAUDATUS. Euphrasen. CM. 



Frost Pish. 



L. caudatus, Giintli., II., p. 344. 



D. 100-104; A. 23-25; P. 12. 



Length ten times that of the head, or fourteen and a half times the 

 height of the body; length of the head tlu-ee and three-quarters the 

 diameter of the eye ; snout more than half the length of the head ; 

 lower jaw longer; the upper jaws with a row of about twenty -three 

 lancet-shaped teeth on each side, those in front much smaller ; near the 

 front two pairs of long fangs, the hinder ones longer, and the left rather 

 in advance ; lower jaws with a pair of small fangs in front, and a series 

 of about eighteen smaller teeth on each side, the hinder ones the largest ; 

 operculum angular above, rounded below, the posterior margin fringed ; 

 the maxUlaiy does not extend quite to the vertical from the anterior 

 margin of the eye ; caudal deeply forked ; a short thick bai-bel at the 

 symphysis of the lower jaw. 



Bluish silvery, rather darker above. 



From England to the Cape of Good Hope. 



A specimen in the Colonial Museum measures 45 inches in total 

 length ; there is also another mutilated specimen about the same length, 

 but much lower iia the body, the length being twenty-eight times the 

 height, but as I can find no other difference I look upon it as a variety 

 only. 



Thyrsites. 



The greater portion of the body naked ; teeth on the palatine bones ; 

 two to six finlets behind the dorsal and anal ; no keel on the tail ; seven 

 bran chiostegals. 



Seas between the Tropics, extendiag into temperate regions. 



20. THYRSITES ATUN. Euphrasen. CM. 



Barracoota. 



T. atun, Giinth., II., p. 350. T. atun et solandri, Cat. Col. Mus. 



D.20|l|YI.;A,-i,|VI.;Y.-J. 



Total length four and a half times that of the head, or eight times 

 the height of the body ; three paii-s of strong teeth in the upper jaw; 



