Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . sfaction of seeing it onthe table for, according to Kent, the ox-eye affords most excellenteating. In India, it is raised to some extent for the table in tanks. The Lady-FishThe Albulids are unique in the development of two transverserows of valves in the bulbus anteriosus in advance of the heart, inwhich respect there is an approximation to the Ganoids. The formand physiognomy are peculiar but there is more superficial resem-blance to a whitefish (Coregonus) than to a herring; the body is fusi-form but the dorsal arch much more curved forwards than the
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . sfaction of seeing it onthe table for, according to Kent, the ox-eye affords most excellenteating. In India, it is raised to some extent for the table in tanks. The Lady-FishThe Albulids are unique in the development of two transverserows of valves in the bulbus anteriosus in advance of the heart, inwhich respect there is an approximation to the Ganoids. The formand physiognomy are peculiar but there is more superficial resem-blance to a whitefish (Coregonus) than to a herring; the body is fusi-form but the dorsal arch much more curved forwards than the ven-tral ; the scales are cycloid and brilliantly silvery; the head bony andscaleless, the snout prominent forwards; and the supramaxillariesare moderate, composed of only two pieces, and partly retractile THE TARPON AND LADY-FISH 41 under the large preorbitals; the mouth is small and overhung byihe prominent snout; the circumorbitals strongly contrast with thoseof the Elopids, a large horizontal preorbital being developed along cor pi. Fig. prn -Albtila conorhynchns; skull from right side. Showing the peculiar snout{me.), circumorbitals {cor.), etc. (After Ridewood.) the side of the snout and this is followed by a short and equally widesuborbital, itself succeeded by wide, angular and postorbital bones,having a well defined sensory canal. According to Ridewood thereare in all twelve bones of the circumorbital series. The mostanterior ones are curious, basket-like bones, not much wider thanthe sensory canals which they carry. The canals in this region areparticularly large. There is no gular plate. The parasphenoid pi ..ecar
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