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INDIAN POLYNEME. 



Polynemus Indicus. P. plumbeus, nbdomine dlbido atomis nigris, 



digitis utrinque quinque br&misculis, cauda falcato-furcata 



squamosa. 

 Lead-coloured Polyneme, with whitish abdomen freckled with 



black points, five rather short thoracic filaments on each 



side, and falcate-forked scaly tail. 

 Maga Booshee. Russel Pise. Tnd. t. 184. 



LENGTH sixteen or eighteen inches: shape some- 

 what lengthened : scales middle-sized, covering not 

 only the body and head, but also the tail itself to 

 the very extremity of the forks : thoracic processes 

 five in number on each side, the upper or longest 

 reaching nearly half the length of the body, the 

 rest gradually shortening to about the length of an 

 inch and half: snout obtusely-acuminate : fins dark 

 or blackish ; eyes rather large. Native of the 

 Indian seas : in much esteem for the table, and 

 called by the English RowbalL 



FOUR-FINGERED POLYNEME. 



Polynemus Tetradactylus. P. fusco-ccerukus, subtus cams, 

 digitis utrinque quatuor brevibus, cauda furcata squamosa. 



Dusky-blue Polyneme, grey beneath, with four short thoracic 

 filaments on each side, and scaly, forked tail. 



Maga Jellee. Russel. Pise. Ind. t. 183. 



SIZE and habit of a Common Mullet : colour 

 dusky blue above, and grey beneath : behind the 

 orbits a lunated yellow spot : scales middle-sized : 



