ELOPS. ELOPS. 



Generic Character. 



Caput Iseve. Dentium sca- 

 brities in maxillarum 

 margine, palato. 



Membr : branch : radiis tri- 

 ginta ; praeterea exterius 

 in medio armata dentibus 

 quinque. 



Head smooth: edges of the 



jaws and palate rough 



with teeth. 

 Gill-membrane with thirty 



rays, and armed on the.. 



outside in the middle 



with five teeth. 



SAURY ELOPS. 



.Elops S auras. E. cauda supra infraque armata. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. p. 518. 



Elops with the tail armed above and below with a spine. 

 Saurus maximus. Sloane Jam. 2. p. 284. t. 251. 

 Elops scuto mentali, pinna dorsali anali opposita. Block, t. 



393. 



A HE Saury Elops, according to Sir Hans Sloane, 

 is known in Jamaica by the name of the Sein-Fish, 

 or Sea Gally-Wasp. He describes it in the follow- 

 ing manner. 



" This fish was about fourteen inches long, in 

 the middle five inches round, and tapering to both 

 ends : the mouth in both jaws had one row of small 

 sharp teeth, and on the upper two more within, 

 parallel to them, and a row of the same on the 

 upper part of the cartilaginous tongue : three 



