8 



B. 1416; D. 1819; A. 9; P. 16 18; V. 9 -ii; L.I. 70 

 80 ; L. tr. 15 (between D. and V.). 



Height 4'/ 4 , head 3V 2 - Dorsal much nearer to caudal than 

 to end of snout. Origin of ventrals below last rays of dorsal. 

 Silvery, olivaceous above, with faint dark streaks along the 

 rows of scales. Black spot on tip of snout and nasal opening. 

 Fins hyaline. Upper border of dorsal and caudal dusky. Young 

 ones passing through leptocephaloid metamorphosis. Length 

 over 900 mm. 



Nom. in dig. : Bandang tjurorot (Mai. Batavia). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Samarang, Rembang, Surabaya); 

 Madura; Bali; Sumatra (Trussan); Pinang; Banka; Biliton ; 

 Celebes (Macassar); Obi-major; Ambon; Saparua; Ceram ; 

 New Guinea. - - Circumtropical. 



In sea and estuaries. 



3. Fam. NOTOPTERIDAE. 



Oblong, dorsal profile very convex. Very compressed. Belly 

 with a double serrated ridge. Tail very elongate. Scales mi- 

 nute, cycloid ; a lateral line present. Head scaled. Anterior 

 nasal openings tubular. No suboperculum, operculum small, with 

 a large posterior membranaceous flap; interoperculum hidden 

 below praeoperculum, which is more or less serrated. Gape 

 rather wide, bordered mesially by the intermaxillaries, later- 

 ally by the maxillaries. Maxillary reaching below or behind 

 eye. Teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. 

 Short dorsal opposite to about the middle of the very long 

 anal, which is confluent with the caudal. Ventrals united at 

 their base, rudimentary. Gillmembranes united at their base, 

 free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 7 9. No pseudobranchiae. 

 Gillrakers few in number, stout; a series of blunt protube- 

 rances at the innerside of the first branchial arch. 



i. Notopterus Lacepede. 



(LACEPEDE Hist. Nat. d. Poissons. II. 1800, p. 189). 



For characters of the single Indo-australian genus see those 

 of the family. 



