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the long intermaxillaries with which the slender maxillaries 

 are connected. Eye of moderate size, anterior with an anterior 

 and posterior adipose eyelid. Dorsal nearly in the middle of 

 the length, behind it the small adipose fin, which is opposite 

 to the short anal. Caudal forked. Pectorals short, above the 

 middle of the height. Ventrals 8-rayed, the long inner rays 

 much longer than the outer ones. Unequal, compressed, pointed 

 teeth in 2 or 3 rows in the jaws, more or less depressible. 

 Similar teeth in a single band on each side of the palate. 

 Teeth on the tongue and on the basibranchialia. 12 i6bran- 

 chiostegal rays. Gillopenings very wide. Gillmembranes slightly 

 connected. Pseudobranchiae well developed. Opercular apparatus 

 well developed, scaly, as also the postorbital part of the head. 

 Note: For larval stages see p. 149. 



Synopsis of the species. 



I. Head compressed. Snout shorter than eye, blunt. 



L. 1. 5558; L. tr. ^ ............... S. myops p. 145. 



II. Head depressed. Snout equal to or longer "than eye, 

 triangular, flat. 



1. L.I. 48 52; L. tr. 4 / 7 .......... ...... S. intermedins p. 146 



2. L. 1. 60 64. 



5 _ 6 



a. L. tr. - : . Pectorals reaching to 10. scale of 



10 ii 



L. 1., 19 20 praedorsal scales ............ S. variegatus p. 147. 



b. L. tr. . Pectorals reaching to 12. scale of L. L, 



o 



17 praedorsal scales .................. S. kaianus p. 148. 



i. Saurus myops (Bl. Schn.). 



Salmo myops Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 421. (after ms. of Forster). 



Saurus myops Cuvier, Regne animal, 2 e ed. 1829, p. 268. 



Saurus trachinus Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Chirocentr. p. 29. 



Saurus myops Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 398. 



Synodus myops Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. Livr. 27, 1875, p. 153. (see Syn.). 



Goodella hypozona Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales XXII. 1897, p. 250. 



Trachinocephalus myops Jordan & Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXII. 1907, p. 514. 



Saiirus myops Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 375. 



B. 16; D. 1213; A. I5I6; P. 12; V. 8; L.I. 5558; 

 L. tr. 



6(7) 

 Elongate, head and body compressed, gradually tapering. 



