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rays. Bright silvery. Faint spotted band along middle of dorsal. 

 Length, 175 mm. 



Gerris abbreviata Latreille, 1804, in insects is not involved, as its 

 generic name is a little different. 



One example. Buena Vista, Guimaras Island. January 14, 1909. Length , 73 mm. 

 Three examples. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length, 85 to 112 mm. 

 6849. Cotabato, Mindanao. May 20, 1908. Length, 195? mm. 

 Five examples. Davao, Mindanao. May 16, 1908. Length, 82 to 117 mm. 

 Two examples. Malampaya River, Palawan. December 26, 1908. Length, 



129 to 133 mm. 

 Three examples. Malcochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December, 1908. 



Length, 75 to 84 mm. 

 One example. Parang Parang, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length, 95 mm. 

 Three examples. Ragay River, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length, 



86 to 108 mm. 

 Three examples. River at Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length, 61 to 101 



mm. Largest with some dark, vertical streaks. 

 22292. River at Port Dupon, Leyte, in brackish water. March 17, 1909. Length, 



140 mm. 

 Nine examples. Verde del Sur Island, Palawan Reef sand flat. April 6, 1909. 



Length, 85 to 133 mm. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 30552. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length, 216 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 49334, 49335. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52761. Orion, Luzon. May 11, 1923. Rev. Joseph Clemens. 



Purchased. Length, 128 mm. 



GERRES POIETI Cuvier 



Figure 15 



Gerres poieti Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 188, 1829 (on Renard, Poiss. 



Moluques Austral., pi. 11, fig. 1, 1718-1719, type locality: Moluccas). — 



Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 284 (Philippines); 



Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 225, 1928 (on Day). 

 Gerres poeti Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 468, 1830. — Bleeker, Nat 



Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, p. 471, 1851 (Rio). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 341, 1859 (compiled) ; vol. 4, p. 256, 1862 (no locality).— 



Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 55, pi. 3, figs. Sa-b, 1865 (pharyngeals and 



air vessel) (Java). — Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 698 (Andamans); 



Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 100, pi. 26, fig. 1, 1875.— Macleay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, p. 261, 1883 (River in Milne Bay, New 



Guinea). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, p. 538, 1889. — Sauvage, Hist. 



Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 240, 1891. — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



vol. 39, p. 225, 1914 (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). 

 Gerres poetie Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 38, 1853. 

 Diapterus poeti Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 128, 1876-1877 



(Bintang, Banka, Java, Madura, Amboina, Saparua). 

 Diapterus poetie Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, pi. (77)361, fig. 



1, 1876-1877. 

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

 Xystaema kapas (not Bleeker) Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines). 

 Xystaema oyena (not Forskal) Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, p. 64, 1918 (Philippines). 

 Gerres methueni Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 5, p. 420, 1920 (type 



locality: Folohy and lagoons at Ambilo, East Madagascar). 



