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abundant in tropical seas. Not much valued as food, but beautiful 

 and gamy. 



"(Esox vulpes, L. Syst. Nat.: Albula conorhynchus. Gunther, 

 VII, 468.)" 



"Family XXXVI. — ELOPID^." 



"(The Big-eyed Herrings.)" 

 Same work, page 260. No Illustration. 



"Body elongate, not much compressed, covered with cycloid 

 scales. Head naked. Mouth broad, terminal, the lower jaw promi- 

 nent. Premaxillaries not protactile, short, the maxillaries forming 

 the lateral margins of the upper jaw. Maxillary composed of about 

 three pieces, extending backward beyond the eye. An elongate bony 

 plate between the branches of the lower jaw (like the gula plate in 

 Amid). Bands of villiform teeth in both jaws and on vomer, pala- 

 tines, pterygoids, tongue, and base of skull. No large teeth. Eye 

 large, with an adipose eyelid. Gill membranes entirely separate, 

 free from the isthmus. Branchiostegals numerous (20-35). Gill 

 rakers long and slender. Pseudobranchiae present or absent. Belly 

 not keeled nor serrated, covered with ordinary scales. Lateral line 

 present. Dorsal fin over or rather behind ventrals. Caudal fin 

 forked. No adipose fin. Pyloric coeca numerous. Two genera, 

 not much alike, with 4 or 5 species, widely distributed, sometimes 

 entering fresh waters. 



" (Clupeidce group, Elopina. Gunther, VII, 469-472.) 



"Body elongate, covered with small scales; anal fin smaller than 

 d o rsal . ( Elopince . ) 



"a. Pseudobranchiae present, Elops, 118. 



"Body oblong, covered with long scales; anal fin larger than 

 dorsal. (Megalopince. ) 



(t b. Pseudobranchias obsolete, . . . Megalops, 119." 



"118. ELOPS, Linnaeus." 



"(Big-eyed Herrings.)" 

 Same work, page 261. 



" (Linnaeus, Syst. Nat.: type, Elops saurus, L.) " 

 "Body elongate, covered with thin, small, silvery scales. Dorsal 

 fin slightly behind ventrals, its last rays short, the fin depressible into 



