mental bone. Villiform teeth on intermaxillary, mandibulary, 

 vomer, and palatines. Patches of coarse blunt teeth on pte- 

 rygoids and tongue. Dorsal in front of ventrals. Anal very 

 small, near caudal and far behind anus. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Pectorals low down. Gillrakers short, tubercle-like. Gillmem- 

 branes separate, free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 14 16. 

 Pseudobranchiae present. 



i. Albula Bloch, Schneider. 

 (BLOCK, SCHNEIDER, Syst. ichth. 1801, p. 432). 



For characters of the single genus see those of the family, 

 i. Albula vulpes (L.). 



Esox vulpes Linne. Syst. Nat. ed. X a . 1758, p. 313. 

 Allmla conorhynchus Giinther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1 868, p. 468. 

 Conorhynchus glossodon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 83. 

 Albula conorhynchus Day. Fishes of India. 4. 1878 1888, p. 648. 

 Albula glossodon Giinther. Fische der Siidsee. Heft VIII. 1909, p. 385. 



Fig. 5. Albula vulpes (L.) Transformation of the translucent larvae I and II 

 into the young fish III during which the size decreases (after GILBERT). 



