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in both jaws, on the palatals, tongue and pharyngeals, but none on the 

 vomer ;* anterior dorsal a little behind the large ventrals ; body, 

 cheeks and opercles scaly ; from 8 to 15 branchiostegous rays. 



Saurus badi, Cuvier. 



Russell, CLXXII. Badi Mottah. 



Saurus badi, Cuv. E. A. II. 314('). 



Saurus badimottah, Ruppell : Neue Wirbelth, Fische, 77. 



Head above, back and sides above the lateral line dull greenish olive, 

 or greyish green ; rest of the body pale silvery white ; cheeks and 

 opercles pale silvery olive with rose-coloured and bluish reflections ; 

 dorsal rays pale yellowish, membrane hyaline minutely dotted with 

 black ; second dorsal pale flesh-coloured, anterior margin blackish ; 

 caudal yellowish, minutely dotted with black, posterior half blackish ; 

 anal and ventral rays pale yellowish, membrane hyaline ; pectorals pale 

 yellowish, posterior half blackish. Iris silvery olive. 



D 11 or 12—1 (adipose), C 19f, A 10 or 11, V 9, P 15, Br. XII, 



XIII, or XIV. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 

 Coromandel. 



Total length : 1 foot. 



The length of the head is £ of the total. The horizontal diameter 

 of the orbit is A\ in the length of the head ; the distance across the 

 forehead, as well as the distance from the orbit to the muzzle, equals one 

 diameter. The eye is covered by a broad, transparent adipose mem- 

 brane with a circular pupillary aperture. The angle of the mouth is 

 situated at the posterior third of the head. The teeth of both jaws 

 are placed in 5 to 6 series, of which the internal one carries the longest 

 and most distant teeth ; the rest gradually decrease in length towards 

 the external series of teeth which are minute, card-like and erect, not 

 obliquely forwards pointed like the rest. With the exception of the 

 anterior four or five anterior teeth of each palatal, the rest as well as 

 the pharyngeals, hyoid and lingval teeth are all smaller and pointing 

 backwards. On the vomer appears a double series of excessively 

 minute pointed teeth, forming a short transversal line which unites 



* Saurus badi has a few minute teeth on the vomer* 



