104 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



ISynagris balinensoides Popta, Zweite Fortsetz. Beschreib. neuen fischarten 

 Sunda-Exp., Leiden, p. 7, 1918 (type locality: Brang Nee Fluss, aus 



SUsswasser) . 



Depth 3%; head 3%, upper profile oblique. Snout 3Ko in head; 

 eye 2%, little greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % 

 in eye, expansion 2% in eye, length 2% in head from snout tip; jaws 

 nearly equal; 8 to 10 curved upper front canines, more below; both 

 jaws with inner band of villiform teeth, with slightly enlarged outer 

 row; interorbital low; preopercle edge minutely or feebly denticulate; 

 preorbital depth 3% in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line; 3 above, 11 below, predorsal extend for- 

 ward opposite eye center, 3 rows on cheek and preopercle flange naked. 



D. X, 9, 1, second spine S% in total head length, first ray 2}i; A. Ill, 

 7, I, third spine 3}^, first ray 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle S%; 

 pectoral 1%; ventral 1%; caudal forked, each lobe ending in filament, 

 though fin otherwise about long as head. 



Above rosy, below rose silvery. Iris yellow and rosy, above brown 

 or violaceous. Broad j^^ellow band wide as pupil from snout tip and 

 median along side to caudal base. Lower fins sulphur-yellow, other 

 fins clear rosy. Dorsal edged yellow. Length, 151 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies. Bleeker says of all the East Indian species this has 

 the shallowest preorbital. 



SYNAGRIS NEMATOPUS (Bleeker) 



Deniex nematopus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, p. 219, 1851 

 (type locality: Bulucomba, Celebes); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, 

 p.' 91, pi. (68) 346, fig. 4, 1876-1877 (Celebes). 



Synagris nematopus Gtjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 377, 1859 (com- 

 piled). 



Depth 4; head 3^, profile inclined. Snout 3K in head; eye Z%, 

 equals snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches K in eye, 

 length 2% in head; jaws subequal; 4 front upper canines, none below; 

 teeth in villiform series, outer row little enlarged; interorbital low; 

 hind preopercle edge denticulate, lower entire ; preorbital depth 2 in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line; 3 above, 10 below, predorsal extend for- 

 ward K in eye, 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge and preopercle 

 flange broadly naked. 



D. X, 9, I, first spine Z% in head, last 2%, sixth ray 1%; A. Ill, 7, 

 I, third spine 2%o, first ray 3; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; ventral 

 iKo, first ray ends in short filament; pectoral Z% in combined head and 

 body to caudal base; upper caudal lobe 2Yi, fin deeply forked and 

 lobes sharp pointed. 



Kosy above, below paler. Iris yellow or rosy. Two yellow bands 

 from eye, upper above and lower below lateral fine to caudal base. 

 Fins rosy. Dorsals with 3 longitudinal yellow bands. Anal uniform. 

 Length, 175 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies. Known only from the type. 



