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TRICHIURUS.
GENER IC CH A R A C T E R .
Caput porrectum ; operculis lateralihus ;
dentes ensiformes, apice semisaggittati :
primores majores. Membrana branchiostega
ra d iis v ìi. Corpus compresso-ensi-
fo rm e . Cauda suhulata, aptera.
T h e h e a d elo n g a ted ; th e o p e rc u la la t e r a l ;
th e tee th e n s ifo rm , h a lf b e a rd e d a t th e
p o i n t ; th e fore tee th la rg e s t. S e v e n
r a y s in th e b r a n c h ia l m em b ra n e . T h e
b o d y c omp re ssed , sw o rd -fo rm ; th e tail
aw l-fo rm , w itlio u t fin .
T h e colour. T h e whole fish shines as i f silverized, though the colour is rather a bright lead, than that of
pure silver.
T h e length o f the subject described, one foot six in clies; but they are brought o f a much larger size.
R EM A R K S .
T h is fish has been described b y Artedi, under tlie name o f Lepturus; and b y Gronovius, under that o f G ym -
nogaster. It is a v ery common fish at Vizagapatam, and in much request among the soldiery.
I always conceived it to be the Anguilla indica in Willougliby's appendix ; and never saw the other species,
(L in n . Ed Gmel. p. 1142} with jaws o f equal length; o f a brown colour, and spotted.
STROMATEUS.
No. XLI.
T r ic h iu r u s capite ohlongo, nucha c a r in a ta ; linea laterali ab ventre a d caudam injima, sub-
curva ; aculei in jra caudam loco p in n a analis.
T h e T r i c h i u r u s , w ith a n o b lo n g h e a d , c a rin a te d b e h in d ; th e late ral l in e f r o m th e an u s
to its e n d close to th e b e lly , a n d a little c u rv e ; a row o f sma ll p ric k le s a lo n g th e u n d e r
p a r t o f th e tail, in th e p la c e o f a n a n a l fin .
T r ich iu ru s L ep tu ru s, L in n . S . JV. p . 4 2 9 .
C a lled b y th e N a tiv e s S a w a l a .
B . v ii. D . 1 20. P . 11. V. 0 . A . 0 . G. 0.
T h e body long, much compressed, thin, without scales, and terminates in a v e ry small, subulate tail.
T h e head oblong, compressed, projecting, sharp, the hind part carinate, the front declivous, depressed. T h e
mouth large, straight, without lips; the under jaw sharp, and considerably longer than the upper. T ee th
regularly, but not thick set, dissimilar, the larger curve, long, ha lf bearded; the smaller straight, and sh a rp: all
firmly fixed. T h e tongue lanceolate, smooth, free. T h e palate narrow, smooth.
T h e eyes lateral, high, round, large, much nearer the rostrum than the posterior edge o f the opercula.
Nostrils solitary, round, near the orbit. Branchial opercula striate, two-leaved, acuminate. Membrane covered ;
aperture large, lateral and gular.
T h e trunk. T h e back v ery narrow, sub-carinate, almost s traight; the throat and abdomen hardly convex ;
the sides plane or compressed; the under part o f the tail straight, carinate, set with v ery small prickles, to near
its end, when it becomes extremely slender.
T h e lateral line, bending from the upper part o f the operculum to near the anus, runs afterwards low, and
parallel to the curve o f the belly and under part o f the tail. T h e anus small, two inches behind the branchial
aperture.
T h e fn s . T h e only fins are the dorsal and pectoral; the first rising from the hind head, is continued to
within an inch o f the point o f the tail, It is narrow and nearly o f equal breadth, till toward its e n d : the pectoral
is situated low, small, falcate.
G E N E R IC C H A R A C T E R .
Caput compressum; dentes in m axillis, palato.
Membrana branchiostega, iv .— v i. Corpus
ovatum, lubricum ; cauda bijida.
T h e h e ad comp ressed ; tee th in th e jaw s
a n d p a la te . T h e ray s o f th e b r a n c h ia l
m em b ran e , iv .— v i. T h e b o d y ovate,
s lip p e ry ; th e tail fo rk ed .
No. XLII.
S t r o m a t e u .s corpore rfwmbeo, squamoso; p in n a dorsi uniqueJalcala ; p in n is pectoralibus, lam
ceolatis.
T h e STROMATEUS, w ith a sq uamous rliomboiclal b o d y ; th e dorsal an d an a l fins falcate ;
th e pe c to ra l fins lanceolate.
Stromateus Argenteus, p a rtibus uirisque p in n a cauda aqualibus. Bloch, P L i% \ .
Called b y th e Na tiv e s T e l l a S a n d a w a
T h e w h ite P om fre t o f th e E n g lis h .
B . i v . D . 3 9 . P . 2 \ . V.O. A . 38. C. 22.
T h e body nearly rliomb-forin, much compressed, smooth, covered with small orbicular scales, close, imbricate,
tenacious.
T h e head small, much compressed, obtuse, without scales, the front declivous. T h e mouth under the bluiit
nose, small, a little oblique; the lips simple. T h e lower jaw somewhat extractile, the upper immoveable : both
short and set with numerous small teeth. T ongu e roundish, short, smooth, tied. T h e palate smooth. T h e
eyes middle, near the rostrum, orbicular, moderate size. Nostrils near the edge o f the rostrum, double, the
posterior (which is the biggest) oval, the anterior round.
T h e branchial opercula, smooth, ciliate at the edge, bridled so as hardly to be moveable, or to admit seeing
the membrane.