238 PISCES. 



E. edentukis, Cuv.; Sloane, Jam., II, pi, 250, f. 2.(1) A spe- 

 cies without teeth. America produces several others equally 

 remarkable. 

 In a second kind, as in the true Herrings, the body is compressed, 

 and the abdomen trenchant and dentated.(2) The 



Thryssa, Cuv. 



Only differs from an Anchovy with a dentated abdomen, in the ex- 

 treme prolongation of the maxillaries. The only species known are 

 from the East Indies. (3) 



Megalops, Lacep. 

 The jaws of the Megalopes are formed like those of the true Her- 

 rings, which they also resemble in their general form, and the dis- 

 position of their fins; but their abdomen is not trenchant, nor is 

 their body compressed; their jaws and palatines are furnished with 

 very short, small, and crowded teeth; their branchial rays are much 

 more numerous (from twenty-two to twenty-four) and the last ray of 

 the dorsal, and frequently of the anal, is lengthened into a filament 

 as in the Chatoessus. 



America produces a species, the Savalle or Apalike, Chipea 

 cyprinoides, Bl., 403, from Plumier; Cl. gigantea^Sh.; Camaripii 

 guagu, Marcgr., which attains the length of twelve feet, and has 

 but fifteen rays in the dorsal; there is a filament also on the 

 anal. There is a second in India, the Megalope filamenteux, La- 

 cep., V, xiii, 3, improperly confounded with the first, under the 

 false name o^ Jlp alike, Russ. 203. It has seventeen dorsal rays. 



Elops^ Lin. 



All the characters of a Megalops, but the dorsal filament wanting, 

 and the form somewhat more elongated; twenty rays and upwards 

 in the branchial membrane; the superior and inferior edge of the 

 caudal armed with a flat spine. 



Species are found in both hemispheres. (4) 



(1) Add^r?^. lemniscatus, Cuv., or piquitinga, Marcgr., 159, Spix, XXIII; — the 

 Stolepkore commersonien, Lacep., V, XII, 1, or Nattoo, Russ., 187, probably the 

 Mherina mislralis, White, p. 196, f. 1; — the Clupie iuhercukuse, Lacep., V, p. 

 460. N.i5. That his Cl. rale d'argent does not differ from his Stolepkore. 



(2) Clupea atheriiioides, lil.;— CV. telara, Biich., II, 72; — Cl. jjhasa, Id., p. 

 24:0;—Poorwa, liuss., 194. 



(3) Clupea setirosiris, Brousson., Dec. Icth., copied Kncycl. 316; — Cl. nii/stus, 

 or Fedda pooraioah, Russ., 190; — Cl.^nystax, Bl. Schn., 83; — Foorawah, Uitssel, 

 189. 



(4) The Elops of the Indian Ocean is the Jlrgentluci mnctmata of Forskal, and 



