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Scales 41 or 42 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 6 above, 9 below, 18 or 19 predorsal forward opposite front 

 eye edge, with broad or obtusely triangular premaxillary groove scale- 

 less; 3 rows on cheek. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; 

 circuli basal, very j&ne parallel transverse striae. 



D. X, 9, 1, second spine 1% to 1% in head, first ray 2% to 2%; A. Ill, 

 7, I, second spine 2%, third spine 2}^, first ray 2 to 2){o; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2}^ to 2%; ventral 1%; caudal 3 in combined head and 

 body to caudal base; pectoral 2% to 3. 



Back drab or brown, sides and below white, everywhere with silvery 

 white reflections. Iris bright silvery white. Snout brown, also front 

 of upper lip. Fins pale or whitish. Dorsals dusky marginally, 

 blackish on spinous fin and each membrane subbasally with dusky 

 spot just below basal scaly sheaths. 



China, Kiu Kiu, Japan. Apparently not abundantly represented 

 in collections. 



U.S.N. M. No. 59744. Kochi, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 109 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 69745. Urado, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 129 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62328. Bingo, Japan. Imperial Museum. Drs. D. S. Jordan and 



J. 0. Snyder. One example. Length, 110 mm. As Xystaema erythrourum. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75917. Japan? P. L. Jouy. Length, 130 mm. As Xystaema 



erythrourum. 



GERREOMORPHA SETIFERA (Bnchanan-Hamilton) 



Chanda? seiifer Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 105, 370, 1822 

 (type locality : Ganges estuaries) . 



Gerres setifer Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 97, text fig. (copied Buchanan- 

 Hamilton), pi. 25, fig. 1 (Hooghly at Calcutta), 1875. — GtJNTHER, Introd. 

 Study Fishes, p. 388, fig. 159, 1880.— Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., p. 786, 

 1888; Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 536, 1889. 



Oerres altispinis Gi^nther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, p. 258, 1862 (type 

 locality: Ganges River). 



Depth 2; head 3%. Snout 3% in head; eye SJi, equals snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches eye, length 3}^ in head; interorbital low; 

 lower preopercle edge serrated on posterior half. 



Scales 38 in lateral line; 5 above, 10 below; premaxillary groove 

 scaleless. D. X, 10, i, second spine 1?^ in head; A. Ill, 7, second and 

 third spines subequal or second 2% in head; caudal slightly longer than 

 head, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2}i in head; 

 ventral Iji; pectoral 2% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Silvery. Narrow dark edge to dorsal interspinous membrane and 

 brown spot at middle of each dorsal ray just above sheath. Length, 

 100 mm. (Day.) 



Hooghly River at Calcutta, India. 



GERREOMORPHA ROSTRATA AUeyne and Macleay 



Gerreomorpha rostrata Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 1, p. 274, pi. 8, fig. 3, 1876 (Feb., 1877) (type locality: Some- 

 where in Torres Straits) . 



