ELOPS. ELOPS. 



Generic Character 



Caput Iseve. Dentium sca- 

 brities in maxillarum 

 margine, palato. 



Memhr : branch : radii s tri- 

 ginta ; prseterea exteriiis 

 in medio armata dentibus 

 quinque. 



Head smooth : edges of the- 

 jaws and palate rough 

 with teeth. 



Gill-membrane with thirty 

 rays, and armed on tlie 

 outside in the middle 

 with five teeth. 



<SAURY ELOPS. 



Elops Sauras. E. cauda supra infraque armata, lAn, Syst^ 

 Nat, p. 518. 



Elops with the tail armed above and below with a spine. 

 Saunis maximus. Sloane Jam 2.p, 284. t. 251. 

 Elops scuto mentali^ pinna dorsali anali opposita. Block, t., 

 393. 



Th E Saury Elops, according to Sir Haris Sloane, 

 is known in Jamaica by the name of the Sein-Fish^^ 

 or S'ea Gally-Wasp. Fie describes it in the follow* 

 ing manner. 



" This fish v/as about fourteen inches long, in 

 the middle five inches round, and tapering to both 

 ends : the mouth in both jaws had one ro¥/ of small 

 gharp ieeth, and on the upper 'two more within, 

 parallel to them, and a row of the same on the 

 upper part of the cartilaginous tongue : three 



