r. Harpodon nehereus (Ham. Buch.). 



Osmerus? nehereus Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 209. 

 Salmo (Harpodori) microfs Lesueur, JoUrn. Philad. Acad. V. 1825, p. 48. 

 Sannis ophiodoii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXII. 1849, p. 490. 

 Saurus nehereus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1255. 

 Harpodon nehereus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 402. 

 Harpodon nehereus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27, 1875, p. 157. 



B. 23 26; D. 12 14; A. 14 15; P. II 12; V. 9; L. I. 

 about 40. 



Height 5 8. Head about 4. Eye very small, covered for a 

 great part by an adipose membrane. Pectorals reaching to below 

 middle of dorsal, about as long as ventrals. Scales commencing 

 between dorsal and ventral fins, those of the lateral line behind 



Fig. 57. Harpodon nehereus (Ham. Buch.). 



the head. Brownish to greyish white, fins may be darkish. 

 Length to 400 mm. 



No men in dig.: Luli, Aruan-tassik (Malay.). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia, Surabaya); Madura; Sumatra (Ben- 

 kulen, Padang, Priaman, Bagan api api!); Singapore; Banka; 

 Borneo (Sinkawang, Sungiduri, Balikpapan!). Pinang, Malacca; 

 China. Indie : westward along the coast to Zansibar. 



In sea along the coast and in estuaries. 



4. Myctophum Rafinesque. 



(RAFINESQUE, Indice d'lttiologia Siciliana, Messina 1810 , p. 56). 



(Myctophus Cocco, Scopelus Cuvier; autt.) 



Slender, compressed, with more or less deciduous cycloid 

 or ctenoid scales. Lateral line present. Gape of mouth wide, 

 dorsally formed by the intermaxilla. Size of eye increasing 



