1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1265 



scales, of which the lateral line occupies the eleventh from above. The 

 scales of the oblique series behind the head are a little larger than the 

 rest, which although they appear smaller than in C. pala, are not so 

 proportionally, nor does Russell's figure represent them so. The four 

 caudal semilunar laminse resemble those of the former species. A sin- 

 gle young individual was taken in a fishing-stake oif the coast of Pinang 

 in March 1845. The fishermen asserted that it is an inhabitant of 

 rivers, and but rarely enters the sea. 



Gen. Albula, (Gronov. 1763) Valenciennes, 1846. 

 (Butyrinus, [Commerson] Lacep. 1803.) 



Body fusiform, covered with numerous hard, firm scales, disposed in 

 longitudinal series ; one such before and behind the dorsal fin, (on the 

 keel of the back) of a little larger scales* ; head large, naked, above with 

 the grooves between the keels of the bones appearing through the skin ; 

 eye with a thick adipose lid ; muzzle conical, pointed, projecting far 

 beyond the lower jaw ; dorsal small, ventrals commencing opposite the 

 posterior part of the latter ; card-like teeth in the upper intermaxillaries 

 and the lower jaw, on the vomer palatals and pharyngeals j small glo- 

 bular teeth on the spheroid, pterygoid, and hyoid bones. 



Albula erythrocheilos, Cuv. and Val.? 



Albula erythrocheilos, Cuv. and Val. XIX. 352, PI. 540 ? 



Head above and back blackish silvery ; sides and abdomen frosted 

 silvery, the edges of the scales shining ; infraorbitals and opercles bril- 

 liant silvery ; on each side of the yellowish white muzzle a short back- 

 wards and downwards directed black line, not, however, joining its 

 neighbour on the lower surface ; in the small groove containing the 

 apertures of the nostrils a minute crescent- shaped black spot bordering 

 the anterior half of the apertures ; a gamboge line from the posterior 

 part of the second infraorbital borders above the single series of scales 

 and extends to the anterior margin of the preopercle ; margin and cavity 

 of the mouth white ; dorsal rays yellow, their upper fourth blackish ; 

 membrane pale brownish dotted with black ; caudal yellow, posterior 



* In the species here described they are not larger than the rest. 



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