FAMILY, VI— CLUPEID^. 649 



Vulfes Bahammsis, Catesby, Nat. Hist, of Carol. &o. p. 1, t. i, f. 2. 



Argentina glossodonta, 'FoiBk. Deao. An. p. 68, No. 99; Bonnat. Ency. Ich. p. 177- Gmel Linn Svsf- 

 Nat. p. 1394. ' i" " ' "^™ei. umn. oyst. 



Butwiwus honawuis, Lac^p. v, p. 45 ; Out. and Val. xix, p. 346. 



Argentina ephyrcma, Lac^p. v. p. 366. 



Olwpea maoroeephala, Lac^p. v, pp. 426, 458, 460, t. xiv, f. 1. 



Synodus argentem, Bl. Schn. p. 398. 



OVwpea BradU&nsis, Bl. Sclm. p. 427. 



Alhula conorhynehus and Plmnieri, Bl. Schn. p. 432, t. 86 ; Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 356 : Giintlier, Catal 

 vii, p. 468. 



Amia {mmaoulata, Bl. Schn. p. 461. 



Esox a/rgenteus, Forster, Desc. Anim. ed. Lichtenst. p. 196. 



Engrwulis serious and BaMensis, Spix, Pise. Brasil. t. xxiii, f. 2, t. xxiy, f. 2. 



Olossodus ForshaUi, Agassiz in Spix, 1. c. p. 49. 



BuUrimMs glossodontm, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 80, t. xx, f. 3 ; Schleg. Fanna Japon. Poiss. p. 242, t. cix, 

 f. 1 : Giinther, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 120. f ' ' 



Slops (Butwvnus) glossodontus, Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 292. 



Alhula maerooephala, Parroe, Ooreensis, NeogrnnoAca, semmmda, and Forsteri, Cuv. and Val. xix, pp. 324, 

 339,342,350,351,354. > ff ' 



Alhula hoMOMus, Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 346 ; Bleeker, Chiroo. p. 11 ; Kner, Novara Fische, p. 339. 



Alhula eryth-ocheilus, Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 352, pi. 640 ; Cantor, Catal. Mai. Fish. p. 283 ; Bleeker, 

 enum. Pise. p. 161. 



Alhula rostrata, Gronovius ed. Gray, p. 189. 



ConorhynohMs glossodon, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. vi, p. 83, t. 260, f. 1. 



Alhula glossodonta, Klunz. Fische roth. Meer. Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien. 1871, p. 602. 



B. xiv-xvi, D. 17.19(Ti:ff), P. 17, V. 9-10, A. 9(1), C. 17, L. 1. 75-80, L. tr. ^^l, Verfc. 41/26, Csec. 

 pyl. 22. 



Length of head 4| to 5, of caudal fin 4f to 5, height of body 6| to 6| in the total length. Uyes — 

 diameter 4 to 5 in the length of the head, 1 to 1^ diameters apart. The maxilla reaches to below the front 

 edge of the eye. Teeth — generic. Fins — the ventral inserted beneath the last half of the dorsal. Colours — 

 silvery. 



Habitat. — Rea Sea, seas of Africa, India, the Malay Archipelago and America, also the Pacific. 



Sixth group— BLOPSiEFOEMES. 



Mouth antero-Iateral : lower jaw the longer. An osseous gular plate. Abdomen rounded and smooth. 



Genus, 12 — Flops, Lkmceus. 



BranoMostegals wumerous : pseudohrancliice. Qill-memhranes entirely separated. Body rather elongated and 

 compressed. An osseous gular plate is attached to the symphysis of the mand/ihles and covers the intermediate part. 

 Mouth viide, anterior, lower jaw the longer. VilUform teeth in the jaws, vomer, palatine and pterygoid hones, also 

 on the tongue and base of the skull. Ventrals opposite to the dorsal, which last has a few rays more than the anal.- 

 Scales small. Lateral-line distinct. Pyloric appendages nwmerous. 



SYNOPSIS OF INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. 



1. Flops saurus, D. 22-24, A. 15-17, L. 1. 95-100. Red Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and 

 beyond. 



Elops saurus, Plate CLXVI, fig. 1. 



Flops saurus, Linn. p. 618 ; Bloch, t. 393, f. 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 430, p. 82 ; Russell, Fish. Vizag. ii, p. 63, 

 and Inagow, fig. 179; D^kay, New York Fauna, Fish. p. 267, pi. 41, f. 131; Cuv. and Val. xix, p. 365; 

 Cantor, Mai. Fish. p. 287 ; Bleeker, Chiroo. &o. p. 14, and Atl. Ich. vi, p. 84, t. 218, f. 3 ; Jerdon, M. J. L. and 

 Sc. 1851, p. 146 ; Gronov. ed. Gray, p. 168 ; Kner, Novara Fische, p. 338 ; Giinther, Catal. vii, p. 470 ; Klunz. 

 Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 603. 



Argentina Garolvna, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 619 ; Bloch, Schn. p. 459 ; Lac6p. v, p. 367. 



Argentina maohnata, Forsk. Desc. Anim. p. 68, No. 100 ; Ghnel. Linn. p. 1395 ; Lac^p. v, p. 366 ; Shaw, 

 Zool. V, p. 129. 



Flops inernds, Mitchell, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York, i, p. 445. 



Flops machnata, Cuv. Reg. Anim. ; Ruppell, N. W. Fische, pp. 80, 84 ; Richards. Voy. Erebus and 

 Terror, Fish. p. 59, t. 30, f. 3-5, and Ich. China, p. 310 ; Schleg. Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 241, t. 109, f. 2 ; Day, 

 Fish. Malabar, p. 227 ; Giinther, Fish. Zanz. p. 121. 



Flops saurus and InMcus, Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 292. 



Flops pu/rpurascens, Richards. Ich. China, p. 311. 



Flops Gapensis, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Africa, Fish. t. vii. 



Jalhtgu and Jinnagow, Tel. : TJllahti, Tarn. 



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