EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND. Part IV.— SYNENTOGNATHI (No. 1). Suborder I.— SCOMBRESOCOIDEA. By J. Douglas Ogilby (Ichthyologist). (Plates XIV to XXIII.) " Synentognaths with small scales and with the mouth tj'pically large, the jaws usually produced and narrowed forwards; rami of the lower jaw united by the interlocking of a series of inner processes (except in (â– ololahis) ; maxillaries firmly united to premaxillaries. Third upper pharyngeals moderately enlarged; fourth usually present; lower pharyngeal triangular or long and narrow. Pharyngeal teeth usuallj^ villiform or granular, some of the teeth of the principal plates often compressed, tricuspid. Parasphenoid without apophysis; myodoine elongate, the parasphenoid and pro-otic meeting in a long sutural union ; auditory bulla, if distinct, little prominent, with but a shallow depression in front of it. Posttemporal'more or less expanded and laminar, simple or with a small inner fork ; supracleithrum small, partly or entirely hidden by the posttemporal ; cleithrum connected with basioccipital by a strong ligament. Each pelvic bone of an anterior subtriangular lamina and an erect laminar process, which is more or less expanded superiorly." (Regan.)^ Key to the Scombresocoid Families, a^. Both jaw?; produced, furnished with bands of small teeth. b^. Jaw with an additional sarie.-; of more or less enlarged erect conical pointed teeth ; no finlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i. Belonid^. b'^. Jaw.^ without enlarged teeth ; finlets present . . . . . . Scombresocid.'e. Family I.— BELONID^. Scombresocidoi part. Gimther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., vi, 1866, pp. 234-256 ; Day, Fish. India. pt. 3, 1877, pp. 509-512 ; Boiilenger, Cambridge Nat. Hist., vii, 1904, p. 637. Mastacembeliformes Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, pt. 2, 1871, p. 43. Esocidce Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1S95, p. 177 ; Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Mid Amer., pt. i, 1896, p. 708. Belonidce Jordan and Starks. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, 1903, p. 526; Regan, Ann. & Mag Nat. Hist. (8) vii, 1911, p. 331. ''THE NEEDLE-FISHES." Body usually much elcngated, covered with small flaky scales. Cleft of mouth wide. Both jaws produced to form a stout pointed beak, armed with bands of small sharp teeth and a single series of strong widely set erect conical 1 Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hi t. (8) vii, 1911, p. 331.
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