140 



b. Origin of ventrals below dorsal. Eye ordinary. 



D. II 13 Evermanella p. 182. 



II. Scales at least in lateral line. 

 a. Body totally scaly. 



1. Origin of dorsal before ventrals. Ventrals 

 shorter than pectorals. Eye large. Lower jaw 



prominent with a dentigerous plate. .... Chloropthalmus p. 177. 



2. Origin of dorsal behind origin of ventrals. 

 Ventrals longer than pectorals. Eye mode- 

 rate. Jaws equal or subequal, without den- 

 tigerous plate. 



ct. Two bands of teeth on each side of 

 palate. Inner rays of ventrals not much 



longer than the outer ones Saurida p. 140. 



/3. One band of teeth on each side of palate. 

 Inner rays of ventrals much longer than 



the outer ones Saurus p. 144. 



b. Scales only in lateral line well developed. 



1. Intermaxillary with a prominent triangular 

 tooth. Eye about in the middle of the head. 



Origin of anal below dorsal Promacheon p. 183. 



2. Upper jaw rounded. Eye near tip of snout. 



Origin of anal behind dorsal Harpodon p. 150. 



i. Saurida C. V. 



(CuviER & VALENCIENNES Hist. Nat. Poissons, XXII. 1849, p. 499). 



Elongate, subcylindrical, tail tapering, covered with cycloid 

 scales of moderate size. Lateral line straight, more or less 

 conspicuously keeled on the tail. Head oblong, depressed, with 

 a rather short pointed snout and a very wide cleft of mouth, 

 bordered by the very long styliform intermaxillary to which 

 the thin long maxillary is closely adherent. Eye of moderate 

 size, partly covered by an anterior and posterior adipose eyelid. 

 The short dorsal nearly in the middle of the length, behind 

 it the small adipose fin, which is opposite to the short anal. 

 Caudal forked. Pectorals above the middle of the height, rather 

 short. Ventrals Q-rayed, with the inner rays not much longer 

 than the outer ones and inserted before dorsal. Teeth in the 

 jaws in several irregular rows, unequal in size, pointed, depres- 

 sible and more or less curved. Similar ones on the palate in 

 2 bands on each side, the inner band much shorter, the outer 



