piumier's polyneme. 157 



twelve brown stripes : snout semitransparent and 

 produced: both jaws furnished with small teeth, 

 and the throat with four rough bones or tubercles : 

 thoracic filaments five on each side, reaching as far 

 as the ventral fins. Native of the Indian seas : 

 observed by Commerson. 



plumier's polyneme. 



Polynemus Plumieri. P. argenfeus, digitis ufrinque sej^. 

 Silvery Polyneme with six thoracic filaments on each side. 

 Polydactylus Plumieri. Cepede. 5. p. 418. 



Native of the American seas : mentioned by 

 Cepede from a drawing by Plumier : shape rather 

 deeper or broader than in most of the genus : scales 

 middle-sized : eyes large : thoracic filaments of 

 nearly equal length, and reaching rather farther 

 than the middle of the body: tail large and widely 

 lunated. 



