2. MEOALOPS, Lacep. 

 Lacep. Hist. Poiss. \\ p. 289 (1803) ; (iuntli. Cat. Fish VII, 



p. 471 (1868) ; Bleek. Atl. Ichtli. \l, p. 85 (1872). 

 Tarpon, Jordan and Eveim. Fish. N. Amer. I, p. 409 (1876). 

 Body not so elongated as in I: lops and strongly compiessed. 

 Scales large ; lateral line with branched tubes. Mouth large, 

 small teeth in premaxillaries, maxillaries, vomer, palatine, 

 pterygoid and tongue. Dorsal tin above or slightly behind 

 ventrals, its last rav produced no pseudobranchicc. 



I. Megalops cyprinoides, Biouss. 



Clupea cyprinoidcs, Brousson, Ichthyol, pi. ix (1782). 



Megalops filauicntosus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 290, pi. xiii, 

 hg. 3 (1803) ; Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii, 1866, 

 p. 286, and Atl. Ichth., VI. p. 86, pi. cclxxih, fig. i (1872). 



CypHnodon cundinga, Ham. Buchan. Fish. Ganges, p. 254 

 (1822). 



Megalops scUpiiuiis, Richards. Ann. N. H. xi, 1843, p. 493. 





J/t'.<',(/ii/'s iypniio'iilfs. A •■'I'arpon " of the East Coast {\^\iiv. alter I)a\). 



Megalops curiifilis, Richards. Ichth. China, p. 310, (1846). 

 Megalops indicus, Cu^^ and Val. Hist. Poiss. xix. p. 388, pi. 

 cccccxlii (1846) ; Bleek. Verb. Bat. Gen. xxi\-, 1852, n. 



7. P- 15- 

 Elops cundinga, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish., p. 289 (1850). 

 Megalops niacrophthahnus, Bleek. \qx\\. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 1852, 



n. 7, }). 15. 

 Megalops macro ptcrus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii, 1866, 



p. 284, and Atl. t.c.p. 85, pi. cclxxiii, fig. 2. 

 Megalops knndinga, Bleek. tt. cc. pp. 288, 87, pi. cclxxiv, fig. i. 

 Megalops cyprinoidcs, Bleek. t.c.p. 290 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. 



vii, p. 471 (1868) ; Bleek. Atl. t.c.p. 87, pi. cclxx, fig. 4 ; 



Day, Fish. Ind. p. 650, pi. clix, fig. 3 (1878) ; Sauv. 



Hist. Madag. Poiss. p. 497. i)l. xlix, A. fig. 3 (1891) ; 



Pfeffer, Tliierw. O.-Afr., Fische. p. 70 (1896). 



