1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1229 



both jaws a narrow band of small teeth ; scales large, rounded, forming 

 a carinated range on each side of abdomen ; body and fins resembling 

 Belone. 



Hemiramphus russelli, Cuv. and Val. 



Russell, CLXXVII. Kuddera, B. 



Hemiramphus brevirostris, Cuv. R. A. II. 286 (').* 



Hemiramphus brevirostris, Swainson, II. 297. 



Hemiramphus russelli, Cuv. and Val. XIX. 32. 



Toda pendekf of the Malays. 



Head above and back bluish black ; lighter, silvery on the sides 

 above the lateral line ; rest of the sides, abdomen and opercles silvery 

 with steel-blue reflections ; fins hyaline ; marginal half of dorsal and 

 caudal minutely dotted with black ; sides of lower mandible black. 

 Iris silvery, orbital margin bluish black. 



D 17, C 154, A 13, V 6, P 12, Br. XIII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Coromandel. 



Total length : 10 inch. 



The length of the head from the apex of the intermaxillaries is \ of 

 the total measured to the point of the lower, longer, caudal lobe. The 

 length of the lower jaw, from the apex to the angle of the mouth, 

 slightly exceeds the length of the head, varying in different individuals 

 from \ to \ of the distance to the point of the lower caudal lobe. The 

 horizontal diameter of the eye is \ of the length of the head ; the dis- 

 tance across the forehead equals \\ diameter. The depth at occiput 

 slightly exceeds \ of the length of the head, and is but § of the greatest 

 vertical diameter of the body, in front of the ventrals. The length of 

 the pectorals is \ less than that of the head, which is exceeded by \ by 

 that of the lower caudal lobe. The upper caudal lobe is f of the 

 lower. The ventrals are placed opposite the posterior third of the 

 distance between the apex of the intermaxillaries and the root of the 



* Cuvier refers this species to Russell No. CLXXVII, and to Willughby : 

 Append. PL VII. Fig. 4, two distinct species according to M. Valenciennes, who 

 therefore has changed the specific denomination. 



f Pendek, short. The Malays thus denominate all the species of Hemiramphus, 

 to distinguish them from those of Belone {Toda). 



