1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1269 



numbers from June to September. It is highly valued for its delicate 

 flavour, and passes commonly as a * Sardine.' The latter denomination 

 it shares, however, with Clupeonia perforata, (vide infra,) with which 

 it is also confounded by the Malays under the common name of Ikan 

 tamhan. Both species have been prepared as ' Sardines a huile.' 



Gen. Elops, {Linne", 1766.) Cuv. and Vol. 1846. 



(Megalops, Lacepede, 1803). 



Branchiostegous rays remarkably numerous ; a single bony plate 

 between the branches of the lower jaw under the branchiostegous 

 membrane ; gape very large ; intermaxillaries short ; maxillaries long, 

 free ; both, as well as the palatals, vomer, pterygoids, sphenoids, lower 

 jaw, lingval and hyoid bones covered with fine velvety teeth ; body 

 elongated, and as well as the abdomen, rounded ; above and below at the 

 root of the caudal a more or less elongated, spine-like scale ; pectorals 

 and ventrals with an elongated scaly appendage ; last dorsal ray in 

 some terminating in an elongated filament. 



Elops saurus, Linne. 



The Pounder, Sloane: Hist, of Jamaica, 284, PI. 251, Fig. 1. 

 Argentina machnata, Forskal, 68, No. 100. 

 Elops saurus, Linne : Syst. 1394. 

 Argentina Carolina, ibid. 1395. 

 Mugilomore anne-caroline, Lacep. V. 398. 

 Russell, CLXXIX. Jinagow. 

 Argentina machnata, Shaw, V. 129. 

 Argentina Carolina, ibid. 



Elops inermis, Mitchill : Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc New York, I. 445. 

 Elops machnata, Cuv. R. A. II. 324 Q. 

 Elops machnata, Riippell : Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 80. 

 Elops indicus, Swainson, II. 292. 



Elops saurus, De Kay : Zool. New York, III. 267, PI. XLI. Fig. 131. 

 Elops machnata, Richardson: Report, 1845, 311. 

 Elops machnata, Richardson: Ichthyol. Erebus and Terror, PI. 



XXXVI. Figs. 3, 4, 5. 

 Elops saurus, Cuv. and Val. XIX. 365. 

 Elops saurus, Bleeker : Verh. Batav. Gen, XXII. 6. 



