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East Africa, Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, China, Aus- 

 tralia. A valued food fish. According to McCuUoch it is more 

 estuarine in Australia and reaches 305 mm. Bleeker's figure shows 

 the caudal but very slightly emarginate and without a large dark 

 basal pectoral blotch. 



Concerning Sillago burrus Castelnau says: "Barrus is only known 

 by a drawing, and Dr. Giinther has very properly neglected it in his 

 catalogue. I am incUned to believe that it is simply maculata, as it 

 appears principally to differ from this by the absence of the longitu- 

 dinal streak which may have been forgotten by the draftsman." 



Sillago gracilis shows: Depth 5; head SYs. Snout 2% in head; eye 

 3%; maxillary 2%; D. XI, I, 33 (description gives 22 soft rays); A, I, 

 23 (22 in description). Caudal truncate. In description color bril- 

 liant yellowish red, with a silvery lateral band, and three rows of 

 distant black spots — one on the silvery band, one between that and 

 the back, and one on the summit of the back. Fins pale, unspotted. 

 Length, 76 mm. 



Sillago aeolus Jordan and Evermann is also Ukely another synonym. 

 The original description says: "Head naked, except on cheek, where 

 there are about two rows of large scales," though the figure clearly 

 shows 4 rows below the eye to the preopercle ridge. 



9118 to 9120, 21188. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length, 75 to 185 mm. 



22446. Cavite market. June 26, 1908. Length, 84 mm. 



7836. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length, 203 mm. 



8048, 8049. Manila market. March 18, 1908. Length, 123 to 126 mm. 



One example. Manila harbor. March 16, 1908. Length, 51 mm. 



22006. Mariveles Bay, Luzon. January 27, 1909. Length, 121 mm. 



19515. Ragay River tidewater, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length, 47 mm. 



19419. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length, 120 mm. 



Three examples. Verde del Sur Island, Palawan reef sand flat. April 6, 1909. 



Length, 83 to 104 mm. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 56215. Bulan, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (4094). Length 



200 mm?. As Sillago macrolepis. These differ from Bleeker's figure of the 



preceding name in the presence of 4 rows of cheek scales and the spotted 



coloration, though this latter was largely faded out. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 59933. Port Jackson, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 



206 to 226 mm. Four examples. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52930. Hong Kong. Henry W. Fowler. Length, 110 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 53079, 53080. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. July 



1923. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 106 to 138 mm. 



SILLAGO JAPONICA (Schlegel) 



Sillago japonica Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-4, p. 23, p. 10, fig. 1, 

 1843 (type locality : Japan). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 223, 1846 

 (Canton).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 244, 1860 (com- 

 piled). — Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 504 (compiled). — 

 Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy); Verh. 

 kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, p. 69, 1874 (Java, Amboina). — 

 GtJNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, p. 66, 1880 (Inland Sea off 

 Japan). — Karoli, Term^sz. Flizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 162, 1881 (Yoko- 

 hama; Nagasaki). — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 105, 



