150 



3. Saurida gracilis has 2 pairs between pectorals and ventrals 

 and 5 pairs between ventrals and anal. 



(See MAX WEBER, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 81). 



Fig. 56. Saurus variegatus (Lac.). 

 a. Specimen of 13 mm.; b. of 45 mm. 



3. Harpodon Lesueur. 



(LESUEUR, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. V. 1825, p. 48). 



(Sauridichthys Bleeker). 



Elongate, rather compressed. Head thick, very short, with 

 very short rounded snout. Scales cycloid, deciduous. Lateral 

 line present. Cleft of mouth very wide, bordered above by 

 the long, slender intermaxillary, the maxillary being absent. 

 Lower jaw prominent. Unequal and partly curved, subulate, 

 depressible teeth in a band on the jaws, especially in the 

 lower jaw the inner ones are enlarged and conspicuously 

 hastate. Similar teeth in one or two rows on vomer, palatines 

 and pterygoids, as also on tongue and on the branchial arches. 

 Dorsal in the middle of the length. Behind it the narrow adipose 

 fin, which is about opposite to the middle of the anal. Caudal 

 threelobed, the lateral line being continuous along the central 

 lobe. Ventrals exceedingly long, about below origin of dorsal. 

 Pectorals inserted above the middle of the height. Gillopenings 

 extremely wide, covered by the membranaceous opercles. 

 Branchiostegal membranes free and extending beyond the 

 opercles. Branchiostegal rays 17 25. 



