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Depth 4K; head 3%, width 1%. Snout 2K in head; eye 3% in snout, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches 1% in snout, length 3% in 

 head; teeth fine, villiform, in bands in jaws and on vomer; interorbital 

 4K in head, nearly level or only slightly depressed; preopercle edge 

 entire. Gill rakers 4 + 9, lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments, which 2}^ 

 in eye. 



Scales 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 13 more on latter; 5 

 above, 8 below, 24 predorsal forward to nostrils, 2 rows on cheek below 

 eye; caudal finely scaled basally and other fins all more or less with 

 some fine scales. Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; 58 to 61 apical 

 denticles, with 6 or 7 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI-I, 19, I, second spine l%o in head, first branched ray 2%; A. 

 Ill, 18, I, first branched ray 2%; caudal 1^; hind edge very slightly 

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



Pale brown, lighter below. Traces of silvery white lateral axial 

 streak, now grayish, embracing lateral line at caudal peduncle. Iris 

 slate gray. Fin membranes transparent, spinous dorsal sprinkled 

 with deep or blackish-brown dots terminally. 



East Indies, Philippines. This species related to Sillago sihama, 

 but with much shorter body, larger scales, and much larger eye. 



U.S.N.M. No. 57903. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 133 mm. As 

 Sillago maculata. 



SILLAGO SIHAMA (Forsk&I) 



Atherina sihama Forskal, Descript. Animal., pp. xiii, 70, 1775 (type locality: 

 Lohaja, Red Sea). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. lehth., p. 178, 1788 (Red Sea). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1396, 1789 (Red Sea). — Lac^p^jde, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 371, 373, 1803 (Arabia). 



Platycephalus sihamus Schkeider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 60, 1801 (Red Sea). 



Sillago sihama Ruppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, p. 9, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1825 (Red 

 Sea) ; Neue Wirbelth. Fische, pp. 100, 103, 1835 (note) .— Gunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 243, 1860 (Red Sea, Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula, 

 Amboyna, Philippines, Canton, China, Nepal) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1861, p. 221 (Nepal specimen). — Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 

 1861, p. 504 (compiled). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 47, 1865; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1865, p. 18 (Cochin, Malabar Coast). — Bleeker, Nederland. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godef- 

 froy. No. 3, p. 8, 1866 (East Indies); No. 4, p. 16, 1869 (Singapore).— Day, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, pt. 2, p. 35 (Nancowry, Nicobars); p. 686 

 (Andamans). — Kltjnzinger, Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 818, 

 1870 (Red Sea). — Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, 

 No. 4, p. 67, 1874 (Sumatra, Nias, Pinang, Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Biliton, 

 Java, Madura, Bali, Borneo, Celebes, Sumbawa, Sangi, Batjan, Obi Major, 

 Buru, Ceram, Amboina, Timor). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1876 (1877), p. 836 (Bougainville, Solomons). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 369, 1879 (Australia).— 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeflfroy, No. 7, p. 44, 1879 (East Indies). — GtJNTHER, 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, p. 56, 1880 (Nares Harbor, Admiralty Island). — 

 KXroli, Term6sz. Ftizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 162, 1881 (Ceylon; Saran- 

 goon). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 360, 1882 



