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Wales, vol. 64, pt. 2, p. 92, 1929 (Ongtong Java, Melanesia) ; Rec. Australian 



Mus., vol. 17, No. 3, p. 116, fig. 5, 1929 (New Hebrides; Naunaha and Peu, 



Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Group). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. 



U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 52, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1930 (Kominato, Riu Kiu).— Fowler, 



Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 336, 1931 (compiled). 

 Diapterus argyreus Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 



2, p. 245, 1868 (compiled); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 127, 



1876-1877 (compiled). 

 Xystaema argyreum Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, p. 272, 1905 



(1906) (Apia, Pagopago). — Kendall and GoLDSBOROtrGH, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 26, p. 291, 1911 (Funafuti). 

 Gerres waigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. -292, 1824 (type 



locality: Rawak; Waigiu Island). 



Depth 2^^; head 3 to 3%, width 1% to 2%. Snout S% to Z% in head; 

 eye 3}% to 3K, siibeqiial with snout, 1)^ in interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 }i to Yi in eye, expansion 2^ to 2% in eye, length 2% to 3 in head; 

 interorbital 3, broadly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 7, short points, 2}^ in gill 

 filaments, which 2% in eye. 



Scales 40 or 41 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on 

 latter; 5 above, 9 below, 20 to 22 forward on predorsal with broad 

 scaleless premaxillary groove extending back opposite % to K in eye, 

 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiat- 

 ing striae; circuli very minute, mostly absent apically. 



D. IX, 10, I, third spine 1}^ in head, last spine and first ray sub- 

 equal or 2% to 3% in head, last ray 4; A. Ill, 7, i, third spine 2% to 

 2K, first ray 2}^ to 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; ven- 

 tral 1% to 1%; caudal 2% to 3 in rest of body; pectoral 2% to 3. 



Largely uniform pale brownish, back and upper surfaces scarcely 

 dark with silvery reflection. Fins uniform brownish. Iris grayish. 



Red Sea, Seychelles, India, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, 

 New South Wales, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. 



Gerres argyreus Klunzinger, 1884, is described with depth 3, equals 

 head (figure shows head Z%); snout shorter than eye (figure shows it 

 longer); second dorsal spine nearly double eye (figure shows it little 

 over 2), 1% (2?) in body depth (figure shows 1%); second anal spine 

 high as second, somewhat stronger, shorter than eye (figure shows it 

 equal); pectoral scarcely reaches anal. The figure is interesting as 

 differing from any of Bleeker's figures of East Indian gerrids in that 

 the last dorsal spines are shown equally high as the soft rays following. 

 Three rows of scales are shown on the cheek, of which the lowest 

 row is on the preopercle flange. In the dorsal view of the head the 

 scaleless premaxillary groove is carried back nearly opposite the 

 hind-eye edge. 



My materials differ from Klunzinger's figure in that they clearly 

 show 3 rows of scales on the cheek above the preopercle ridge, with a 

 fourth row on the preopercle flange; the scaleless premaxillary groove 



