E L O P S. A R G E N T I N E. 145 



Efox Brafilienfis, i/«. 517? 182. Brasiliam. 



P With the under jaw very flender, and twice as long as the upper : 

 ' the head fmooth : body covered with fmall fcales : dorfal and anal 



fins oppofite : between them and the tail a row of fmall fpurious fins 



like the Mackrel. 



Taken oif Croque harbour, and communicated to me by Sir Jo/e^h Place, 



Banks. 



Head fmooth : a roughnefs on the edges of the jaws, and on the XXXVIILELOPS. 



palate. 

 Thirty branchioftegous rays. Linn^us. 



■p*L. With a long body : one dorfal fin placed in the middle: head 

 large and Ihining, flat on the top : tail deeply furcated : juft at its 

 bafe, above and below, is a ftrong lanceolated Ipine, placed horizon- 

 tally. 



Inhabits the feas of Carolina and Jamaica. - Place. 



Br. Zool. iii. p. 327. Genus XXXV. XXXIX. ARGEN- 



TINE. 

 Herangus minor Bahamenfis, Pilchard, Catefiy, ii. 224. — Atherina Carolina, 183. Bahama. 



Lin. 519. 



f^A'tESBT gives the figure of a fmall brownifh fifh, under the 

 name above given ; but leaves no further defcription, than that it 

 is a fmall filver-fcaled fifh refembling a herring, but fi-naller, and tole- 

 rably good food. He omits in his figure the dorfal fin, which it 



doubtlefsly has. 



X Thcy^ 



