Holt and Calderwood — Report on the Rarer Fishes. 405 



TELEOSTEI. 



Family PERCIDiE. 



Genus Pomatomus, Risso {nee Lecdp). 



" Eye very large, seven branchiostegals. All the teeth villiform, without 

 canines, no teeth on the palatine bones. Two dorsals, separated by an interspace, 

 the first with seven, the anal fin with two spines. No denticulations on the 

 edges of the bones of the skull, operculum, with two very feeble points, 

 preoperculum with prominent rounded and striated angle. Scales moderate, 

 slightly adherent. Pancreatic caeca in considerable numbers." (Giinther.) 



Pomatomus telescopium, Risso. (Deep-sea). 



(PI. xLii., figs. 3, 3a, 3J, 3c.) 



Pomatomus telescopium, . . . Risso, " Ichth. Nice.," 1810, p. 301. 



,, „ ... Cuv. ET Val., "Hist, Nat. Poissons," vol. ii., 



p. 171, and vol. vi., p. 495. 

 , . . Valenciennes, " Hist. Nat. lies. Canar. Poiss,," 



p, 6. 

 . . . Lowe, " Proc. Zool, Soc. Lend.," 1843, p, 91. 

 . . . GuNTHEK, " Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.," vol. i., p. 250. 

 ,, ,, , . , MoKEAU, " Poiss, de Franc," vol. ii., p. 386. 



Pomatomus telescopus, . . . Vaillant. "Exp. Sci. ' Travailleur ' et 'Talis- 

 man,' Poiss.," 1888, p. 376. 

 Pomatomus telescopium, . . . Holt, " Proc, Roy. Dub. Soc," vol. vii., p. 121. 



Br. vii. ; D. i. 7 ; D. ii. 1/10-11 ; P. 18 ; A. 11-12 ; L. lat. 40-53.* 



Diagnosis ov Species, — Length of head about 2f times in length of fish 

 without caudal fin ; greater than extreme height of body. Diameter of eye 

 more than ^ length of head, slightly greater than length of snout. Interorbital 

 space wide. A well-marked transverse depression in front of interorbital space. 

 Lower jaw the longer. Maxilla extends to about level of centre of eye. Upper 

 jaw protrusible. Membrane of mouth ample. Anal papilla rather protuberant, 

 slightly anterior to median point. All fins rather small. Scales large, very 



* Giintlier, Cat. makes L. lat. 40. We count 53 in our specimens. 



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