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SCOMBBESOCIME. 



" Body covered with scales ; a series of keeled 

 scales along each side of the belly. Margin of the 

 upper jaw formed by the intermaxillaries mesially, 

 and by the maxillaries laterally. Lower pharyngeals 

 united into a small bone. Dorsal fin opposite the 

 anal, belonging to the caudal portion of the verte- 

 bral column. Adipose fin none. Air-bladder gene- 

 rally present, simple, sometimes cellular, without 

 pneumatic duct. Pseudobranchige hidden, glandular. 

 Stomach not distinct from the intestine, which is 

 quite straight, without appendages. 



" Marine fishes of the temperate and tropical 

 zones, many species entering or inhabiting fresh 

 waters." 



HEMIEAMPHTTS. 



This form may be considered as tropical, one sort alone extend- 

 ing its habitat to the Mediterranean Sea ; several are found in 

 Australia, but I have only observed one on the shores of Victoria. 



HEMIEAMPHTTS MELANOCHIR. 



Hemiramphus melanochir, Cuv. Sf Val., vol. xix., p. 41. 



■ intermedins, Gunther, Catal., vol. vi., p. 260. 



(The Gar Fish.) 

 The lower jaw, from its extremity to the point where it meets 

 the upper one, is contained five times in the total length ; the 

 height of the body is about sixteen times in the same ; and the 

 head, to the extremity of the upper jaw, is five and two-third times 

 in it ; the orbit is contained about four times in the same 

 distance. The upper mandible is long and obtuse ; the teeth 

 very numerous ; the dorsal fin is long, and formed of seventeen 

 rays ; the anal has the same form and nineteen rays ; the 



