PLUMIER'S POLYNEME. 157 



twelve brown stripes : snout semitransparent and 

 produced : both jaws furnished with small teeth, 

 and the throat with four rough bones or tubercles : 

 thoracic filaments five on each side, reaching as far 

 as the ventral fins. Native of the Indian seas : 

 observed by Commerson. 



PLUMIER'S POLYNEME. 



Polynemus Plumieri. P. argenteus, digitis utrinque sex. 

 Silvery Polyneme with six thoracic filaments on each side. 

 Polydactylus Plumieri. Cepcde. 5. p. 418. 



NATIVE of the American seas : mentioned by 

 Cepede from a drawing by Plumier : shape rather 

 deeper or broader than in most of the genus : scales 

 middle-sized : eyes large : thoracic filaments of 

 nearly equal length, and" reaching rather farther 

 than the middle of the body: tail large and widely 

 lunated. 



