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of eye, length 2% in head; jaws nearly even; interorbital 3% to 3K, 

 convex; preopercle entire. Gill rakers 7 on lower branch of first arch, 

 1% in gill filaments or 3Ko in eye. 



Scales 47 to 50 (figure shows tubular scales 43 in lateral line to 

 caudal base and 2 more on latter); 6 above, 13 below (figure shows 

 10 above anal origin), about 20 predorsal forward to nostrils (shown 

 on figure); 4 rows on cheek, of which 1 row on preopercle fiange; 

 premaxillary groove broadly naked. 



D. IX, 10, I, second spine 1% in head, first ray 3; A. Ill, 7, i, third 

 spine 2%, first ray 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; ventral 

 1%; caudal 2^ in combined head and body to caudal base; pectoral 2%. 



Silvery, upper parts tinged yellow. Each scale above lateral line 

 with obscure darker central spot forming longitudinal bars following 

 contour of back; below lateral line five series of much larger oblong 

 brick-red spots. Naked parts of head pale ohve or grayish green. 

 Hind dorsal spines and all rays except last with narrow oblique 

 blackish basal spot; caudal edged and tipped dusky. Blackish spot 

 in pectoral axil. Length, 145 to 222 mm. (Ogilby.) 



Queensland. Wliitley thinks this nominal form a synonym of 

 Gerres argyreus. 



GERRES OBLONGUS Cuvier 



Figure 17 



Gerres ohlongus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 479, 1830 (type locality: 

 Ceylon). — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 38, 

 1853.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 354, 1859; vol. 4, p. 264, 

 1862 (compiled).— Day, Fishes of India, vol. 1, p. 98, pi. 25, fig. 2, 1875 

 (Madras; Andamans); Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 536, 1889. — Weber, 

 Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral. Malay Arch., vol. 5, p. 263 1895 

 (Ambon); Siboga Exped., vol. 57, p. 272, 1913 (Kawa, West Ceram). — 

 Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 244 (Delagoa Bay). 



Gerres oblongatus Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1914, p. E6. (Error.) 



Xystaema ohlongus Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 629, 1927 

 (Delagoa Bay). 



Gerres gigas Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, p. 262, 1862 (type locality: 

 Tonga Islands). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, 

 p. 117, 1873 (Noumea, New Caledonia). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, 

 vols. 2, 3, pts. 5, 6, p. 30, pi. 24, fig. A, 1874 (Friendly Islands; Fiji).— 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 239, 1882 (New 

 Guinea). — Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 20, p. 372, 1897 

 (Rotuma). — Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull. 22, p. 10, 1925 (Guam); Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 226, 1928 (Guam, Tongatabu, Fiji, Samoa, Apia); vol. 11, 

 No. 5, p. 336, 1931 (reference). 



Gerres macrosoma (not Bleeker) Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 KL, vol. 58, p. 301, 1868. — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 55, 

 1879 (Savaii). 



Gerres carinatus Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 

 1, p. 273, pi. 7, fig. 4, 1876 (1877) (type locality: Darnley Island). 



Depth 3K to 3%; head 2% to ?>%, with 2)U to 2)i. Snout 3 to 3M in 

 head; eye 3^8 to 3%, \)i to 1% in snout, equals interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches opposite front eye edge, expansion 3 in eye, length 2y& to 3 in 



