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The following enumeration gives the synonyms of each species, the work in 

 which it was first described, and the habitat. 



It is proper to remark that the Sillago sihama and S. malabarica have been 

 united by Dr. Giinther under the name of S. sihama, and that S. bassensis and 

 S. maculata have been also regarded as identical, and described under the latter 

 name. Dr. Giinther may be correct in his views, but as he has given no reasons 

 to support them, and as there are well marked differences between those forms, 

 which are generally specific, we prefer, with previous naturalists, to retain them 

 as distinct, until it is demonstrated that their variations are of less value in 

 this group than in most others. Dr. Gunther's descriptions are also as restric- 

 tive as those of others, that of Sillago sihama applying to the one here retained 

 a3 such, and the one of . maculata rather to S. bassensis. 



1. Sillago macrolepis, Bleeker. 



Sillago macrolepis Bleeker, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch 

 Indie, vol. xvii. p. 166. 

 Habitat. Seas of Batavia and Bali. 



2. Sillago Japonica, Temminck et Schlegel. 



Sillatjo Japonica Temm. ant Schlegel, Fauna Japonica Pisces, p. 33, pi. x. 

 fig. 1. 

 Habitat. Japanese and Moluccan seas. 



3. Sillago sihama, Ruppell. 



Atherina sihama Forskal, Descriptiones Animalium, &c, p. 70. 

 Platycephalus sihama Bloch, Systema Jchtbyologiae, Schneid. ed., p. 60. 

 Sillago sihama Ruppell, Atlas zur der Reise im Nordl. Africa, Fischc, p. 9, 



taf. 3, fig. 1. 

 Sillago erythraea Cuv. el Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, torn. iii. p. 409. 

 Habitat. Red Sea. 



4. Sillago malabarica, Cantor. 



Scisena malabarica Bloch, Systema Ichthyologicae, Schneid. ed., p. 81, pi. 



19. 

 Soring Russell, Desc. and Fig. of Fishes of Coromandel, torn. 113. 

 Sillago acuta Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, torn. iii. p. 400. 

 Habitat. East Indian and Chinese seas. 



5. Sillago maculata, Quoy and Gaimard. 



Sillago maculata Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage de Freycinet, Zoologie, p. 261 

 pi. 53, fig. 2. 

 Habitat. East Indian and Australian seas. 



6. Sillago bassensis, Cuv. et Val. 



Sillago bassensis Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, torn. iii. p. 412. 

 Habitat. Coasts of South Eastern Australia. 



7. Sillago parvisquamis, Gill. 

 Habitat. Japanese seas. 



8. Sillago chosdropcs, Bleeker. 



Siliago chondropus Bleeker, Verhand. von bet Bataav. Genoots, chap. deel. 

 xxii. Percoiden, p. 61. 

 Habitat. Molluscan and Japanese seas. 



9. Sillago ciliata, Cuv. et. Val. 



Sillago ciliata Cuv. et Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, torn. iii. p. 415. 

 Habitat. Australian seas. 



SILLAGINODES, Gill. 

 Synonymy. 

 Silago sp. Cuv. et Val., Giinther. 

 Diagnosis. Dentes velutiui. Pinna dorsalis prima postice oblique recta vel 



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