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at each side, and an outer row of similar small teeth on the edge of 

 the maxillaries. Between the maxillary and palatine row, there is a 

 short narrow band of palatine teeth near the base of the upper jaw on 

 each side. There are three rows of close conical teeth on each side of 

 the lower jaw, the middle row more prominent than the others. There 

 is a fourth row composed of prominent, strong, conical teeth directed 

 obliquely outward from the external edge of the lower-jaw along its 

 entire length, besides three or four large prominent conical teeth at the 

 apex, which are slightly hooked. The jaws are widely cleft and narrow ; 

 somewhat dilated and round at the muzzle, which is without tubular 

 nostrils. The intestinal aperture is situated at the middle of the 

 body. The dorsal commences over the branchial apertures, which are 

 situated a short distance in front of the pectorals. The pectorals are 

 long and narrow, consisting of about fourteen rays. The lateral line 

 consists of a double row of pores. There are about 269 rays in the 

 dorsal, and 90 in the anal fin, to the middle of the caudal. 



The colour above is light bluish or lead grey ; below white. The 

 fins partake of the colours of the adjoining parts, with the addition of a 

 darker tinge along the margins of the dorsal and anal. 



This description is derived from two fine specimens re- 

 ceived in 1838, from my friend Capt. Richard Lloyd, then 

 Officiating Marine Surveyor General, who obtained them 

 in the Bay of Bengal, near the Islands on the Arracan 

 Coast. They were both of the same size, namely, four feet 

 in length, and were called Bamboo Fish by the sailors, from 

 their peculiar shape. 



2. MUR^NESOX LANCEOLATA. PL mi. fig. 3. 



This species has the jaws slender, and greatly prolonged like the 

 last ; the aperture of the mouth being equal in length to half the 

 distance from the muzzle to the branchial apertures. The apex of the 

 lower jaw is armed with a cluster of long radiating conical and slightly 

 hooked teeth, for the reception of which there is a large corresponding 

 semi-circular notch in the upper jaw. 



The distance from the muzzle to the fore part of the eye, is equal to a 

 third of the distance from the former to the branchial aperture. There 

 is a row of eight or ten long teeth, with lanceolate points on the vo- 

 mer. Two rows of small teeth on the upper jaw, the inner one short 



