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Pale olive or brownish on back, sides and lower surfaces white, 

 everywhere with bright silvery white reflections. Young with variable 

 dark blotches on back and sides above. Snout and upper Up brown. 

 Iris white, slate in formalin specimens. Dorsals pale or whitish, 

 spinous fin terminally dusky, blackish in young; each membrane with 

 dusky or blackish subbasal blotch, usually just above Une of basal 

 scaly sheath. 



East Indies, Siam, Phihppines, Micronesia, Polynesia. 



U.S.N. M. No. 56049. Jolo, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3417). Length, 



160 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56061. Bulan, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3890) . Length, 



45 to 53 mm. Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57975. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 56 to 58 mm. 



Three examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 84248. Zamboanga. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 133 to 138 mm. 



Three examples. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 9212. Samoa. Dr. H. C. Caldwell. Length, 130 mm. Depth 2^. 



Scales 35 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 5 above, 9 below. 



D, IX, 10, I. A. Ill, 7, I. Pectoral dusky terminally. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 33308. Jolo. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 170 mm. 



GERRES ABBREVIATUS Bleeker 



Figure 14 



Genes abbreviatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, p. 103, 1850 

 (type locality: Batavia). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., vol. 1, p. 345, 

 1859 (Amboyna); vol. 4, p. 257, 1862 (Amboyna). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, No. 1, p. 8, 1864 (East Indies). — Kner, Reise Novara, 

 Fische, p. 56, 1865 (Java).— Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 698 

 (Andamans); Fishes of India, pt. 1, pi. 25, fig. 6, 1875. — Alleyne and Mac- 

 LEAY, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 1, p. 272, 1877 (Cape Greu- 

 ville). — GtJNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, p. 39, 1880 (Somerset). — 

 KIroli, Term^sz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 155, 1881 (Singapore). — 

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

 Guinea). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafii. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 18, 

 1885 (Manado, Celebes). — Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, ser. 2, vol. 1, p. 9, 1886 (Strickland River, New Guinea). — Day, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 538, 1889. — Weber, Siboga Exped., 

 vol. 67, p. 272, 1913 (Lombok; Makassar, Celebes). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 284 (Orion; Philippines). — Fowler and 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 10, p. 7, 1927 (Benkoelen, 

 Sumatra). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 224, 1928 (on Day). — 

 J. Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 154, 

 1930 (Yaeyama, Riu Kiu). 



Diapterus abbreviatus Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, 

 vol. 2, p. 291, 1868 (Rio, Bintang); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6er]and., vol. 8, p. 

 127, pi. (78)362, fig. 4, 1876-1877 (Sumatra, Singapore, Bintang, Banka, 

 Biliton, Java, Celebes, Ceram, Amboina, Waigiu). 



Xystaema abbreviatus Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, p. 278, 1910 

 (Sandakan) . 



Xystaema abbreviata Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines). 



Gerres profundus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, p. 350, pi. 

 7, fig. 3, 1878 (type locality: Port Darwin). 



