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rivers of India and the Malay Islands ; Acharnes the rivers of 
British Guiana. 
Family 34— POLYCENTRIDA3, (2 Genera, 3 Species.) 
“ Fresh-water carnivorous fishes, with compressed elevated 
scaly bodies, and many-spined dorsal and anal fins.” 
Distribution. — Fivers of Tropical America. 
Family 35.— LABYRINTHICI. (9 Genera, 25 Species.) 
"Fresh-water fishes, with compressed oblong bodies, and 
capable of living for some time out of water or in dried mud.” 
Distribution. — Freshwaters of South Africa and the East 
Indies from the Mauritius to China, the Philippines, Celebes, 
and Amboyna. 
Family 36.— LUCIOCEPHALID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 
“ Fresh- water fish, with elongate scaled body, and a dilated 
branchial membrane.” 
Distribution. — Rivers of Borneo, Biliton, and Banca. 
Family 37. — ATHERINIDiE. (3 Genera, 39 'Species.) 
“ Marine or fresh-water carnivorous fishes, with subcylind- 
rical scaled bodies, and feeble dentition.” 
” Distribution. — AH temperate and tropical seas, from Scotland 
and Hew York to the Straits of Magellan and Tasmania. 
Atherina presbyter occurs in British seas. Species of Atherina 
and Atherinichthis are found in fresh-water lakes and rivers in 
Europe, America, and Australia. 
