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The colour. The whole fish shines as if silverized, though the colour is rather a bright lead, than that of 
pure silver. 
The length of the subject described, one foot six inches; but they are brought of a much larger size. 
REMARKS. 
This fish has been described by Artedi, under the name of Lepturus; and by Gronovius, under that of Gym- 
nogaster. It is a very common fish at Vizagapatam, and in much request among the soldiery. 
I always conceived it to be the Anguilla indica in Willoughby’s appendix; and never saw the other species, 
(Linn. Ed Gmel. p. 114,2) with jaws of equal length; of a brown colour, and spotted. 
STROMATEUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caput compressum; dentes in maxillis, palato. 
Membrana branchiostega, iv.—vi. Corpus 
ova turn, lubricum ; cauda bifida. 
The head compressed ; teedi in the jaws 
and palate. The rays of the branchial 
membrane, iv.—vi. The body ovate, 
slippery; the tail forked. 
No. XLII. 
Stromateus corpore rkombeo, squamoso ; pinna dorsi anique Jalcata ; pi mils pec tor ah bus , lan- 
ceolatis. 
The Stromateus, with a squamous rhomboidal body ; the dorsal and anal fins falcate ; 
the pectoral fins lanceolate. 
Stromateus Argenteus, partibus utrisque pinna cauda aqualibus. Bloch , PI. 421. 
Called by the Natives Tell a San daw a 
The white Pomfret of the English. 
B. iv. D. 39. P. 21 . V. 0. A. 38. C. 22. 
The body nearly rhomb-form, much compressed, smooth, covered with small orbicular scales, close, imbricate, 
tenacious. 
The head small, much compressed, obtuse, without scales, the front declivous. The mouth under the blunt 
nose, small, a little oblique; the lips simple. The lower jaw somewhat extractile, the upper immoveable : both 
short and set with numerous small teeth. Tongue roundish, short, smooth, tied. The palate smooth. The 
eyes middle, near the rostrum, orbicular, moderate size. Nostrils near the edge of the rostrum, double, the 
posterior (which is the biggest) oval, the anterior round. 
The branchial opercula, smooth, ciliate at the edge, bridled so as hardly to be moveable, or to admit seeing 
the membrane. 
