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preopercle edge rough or uneven. Lower gill rakers 14, strong, equal 

 pupil. 



Scales 54 in lateral line, 11 above, 11 below. 



D. XI, 25, second spine 1% in total head length, first ray 2%; 

 A. II, 7, second spine slender, Sji in total head, fourth ray l%o, fin 

 origin shown opposite base of eighth dorsal ray; caudal 1%, cuneate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral Iji; ventral 1%. 



Uniform silvery with more or less distinct narrow black lines follow- 

 ing scale rows above lateral line. Tips of dorsal and caudal, also 

 pectoral axil, dusky. (Scale.) 



India, Pinang, East Indies. Otolithus versicolor is based on Rus- 

 sell's plate, which shows the advanced position of the anal fin, its 

 origin falling before the middle of the soft dorsal base. This is next 

 figured by Bleeker as his Otolithus lateoides and finally by Scale as 

 Otolithus dolorosus. According to Bleeker the scales are 100 rows 

 along above and 90 along below the lateral line, with 11 rows trans- 

 versely above. 



OTOLITHES ARGENTEUS Cuvier 



Otolithus argenteus (Kuhl and van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 

 p. 62, 1830 (type locality: Batavia, Malabar, Malacca). — Richardson, 

 Ichth. China Japan, p. 225, 1846 (Canton). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Ben- 

 gal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1043, 1849 (1850) (sea and estuaries of Pinang, Malayan 

 Peninsula, Singapore). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 310, 1860 

 (China, Ceylon); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 222 ("Nepal").— Day, 

 Fishes of Malabar, p. 58, 1865. — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 135, pi. 6, 

 fig. 4, 1865 (air bladder) (Java). — Bleeker, Ncderland. Tijdschr. Dierk., 

 vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 53, 1866 (Aden; 

 mouth of Pangaui River, East Africa) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, p. 10 

 (Madagascar). — Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, 

 p. 9, 1874 (Sumatra, Nias, Pinang, Singapore, Banka, Java, Madura, Borneo, 

 Celebes). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 390, 1876 (Yeddo; 

 Bangkok).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 197, pi. 45, fig. 3, 1876.— Bleeker, 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, pi. (2) 185, fig. 5, 1877.— Jordan and 

 EiGENMANN, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 14, p. 346, 1886 (1889) (Hong 

 Kong).— Day, Fishes Brit. India, vol. 2, p. 129, 1889.— Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., p. 503, 1895 (Luzon; Cavite). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Ham- 

 burg, vol. 21, p. 154, 1903 (1904) (Jeram; Kuala Lumpur). — Fowler, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 530, 1904 (Padang).— Pelle- 

 GRiN, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, p. 84, 1905 (Baie d' Along, Tonkin).— 

 Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 87, 1906 (1907) 

 (Bacon). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1912-1913, p. Ell. — Zug- 

 MAYER, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 12, 1913 

 (Mekran). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1915-1918, p. F13. — Ogilby, 

 Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 6, p. 63, pi. 20, 1918 (Edgecumbe Bay). 



Otolithes argenteus Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3, 4, 

 p. 452, 1917 (Ceylon).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhUadelphia, 1929 

 (1930), p. 650 (Padang); 1931, p. 446 (Singapore). 



Otolithus orientalis Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, p. 281, pi. 4, 1910 (1911) 

 (type localitj^ : Sandakan, Borneo). 



