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Depth 2 to 2%; head 3% to dji, width 1% to 2. Snout 3% to 3% in 

 head; eye 2}^ to 3K, greater than snout, greater than interorbital in 

 young to 1 to IJs with age; maxillary reaches opposite pupil, expansion 

 2K to 3% in eye, length 2% to 3 in head; interorbital 2% to 3, broadly 

 convex to nearly level. Gill rakers 5 + 7, very short, lanceolate. 



Scales 32 to 36 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 to 5 more on lat- 

 ter; 6 above, 10 below, 17 to 20 predorsal to front eye edge, with broad 

 premaxillary groove scaleless; 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. 

 Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiating striae; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, second spine iKo to 1% in head, first ray 2% to 2%; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, second spine Iji to 2, first ray l%o to 2%; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; ventral l}i to 1%; caudal 2% to 3 rest of 

 body ; pectoral 2% to 2%. 



Figure li.— Genes abbreviatus Bleeker, young 



Brownish on back, side and below white. Scale rows above lateral 

 line and with age four rows below, with deeper brown longitudinal 

 median line. Iris silvery white. Fins pale, dorsal dusky gray ter- 

 minally. Small examples show row of gray spots, one on each mem- 

 brane just above edges of basal scaly sheaths of dorsals. 



India, East Indies, Philippines, Northern Territory, Queensland. 

 Known chiefly by its deep body and large scales. Whitley mentions 

 that the present species has more scales than Genes profundus, for 

 which he proposes Parochusus. 



Gerres profundus is evidently a synonym: Depth 1%; head 3. Eye 

 Z% in head, greater than snout. Scales in lateral line 42 (though 

 crude figure would suggest much fewer and larger scales). D. IX, 10, 

 second spine 2^ in body depth. A. Ill, 7, second and third spines 

 equal. Caudal broad, furcate. Pectorals reach beginning of anal 



