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Two orange-yellow lines along flanks. Fins uniformly gray. Some 

 traces of punctations on first dorsal rays. Length, 180 mm. (Pellegrin.) 



Indo-China. 



Sillago bostockii Castelnau ^^ as interpreted by McCulloch ^* is very 

 close to, if not the same as, Sillago boutani. For comparison it may 

 be noted he gives: Scales in lateral line 69 to 74; D. XI, 21 or 22; 

 A. 19 to 21; no black mark on pectoral base. 



SILLAGO BASSENSIS Cuvier 



Sillago bassensis Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 412, 1829 (type locality: 

 Port Western, Bass Strait, Australia). — Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astro- 

 labe, Zool., vol. 3, p. 672, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1834 (Port Western) .—Gill, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 504 (compiled). — Ogilby, Edible 

 fishes New South Wales, pp. 99, 101, 102, 1893.— Waite, Rec. Australian 

 Mus., vol. 4, p. 190, 1902.— Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. Ill, 1906 (New 

 South Wales; Tasmania); Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 30, 

 p. 574, 1906; Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 65, pi. 35, 1908.— Mc- 

 Culloch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, pt. 1, p. 61, 1911 (Flinders Island, Murray 

 River, Investigator Group); Cat. Fish. New South Wales, vol. 1, pt. 7, 

 p. 51, pi. 21, fig. 184d, 1919. — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, 

 No. 1, p. 101, fig. 153, 1921.— McCulloch, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, 

 p. 51, pi. 21, fig. 184d, 1927. 



Sillago maculata (part) Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 245, 1860 

 (Sydney). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc, Victoria, vol. 1, p. 94, 

 1872 (Melbourne). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 265, 1876. — Johns- 

 ton, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1883, p. 116. — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Tasmania, new ser., vol. 2, p. 26, 1890 (copied). — Waite, Mem. Australian 

 Mus., vol. 4, p. 109, 1899. 



Sillago ciliata (not Cuvier) Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1882 (1883), 

 pp. 80, 116. 



Depth 4%; head 3%, width 2Ko. Snout 2% in head; eye 4%, \% in 

 snout, l)i in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1% in snout, 4 in head; 

 teeth villiform, in broad bands in jaws and on vomer; interorbital 4>8, 

 slightly elevated and largely broadly convex; preopercle edge weakly 

 and minutely denticulate. Gill rakers 4+12, lanceolate, 2^^ in gill 

 filaments or 2% in eye. 



Scales 64 in lateral Une to caudal base and 8 more on latter; 5 

 above, 10 below, 29 predorsal forward halfway in antero-prenasal 

 region of snout; 4 rows on cheek below eye to preopercle ridge; 

 caudal base finely scaly and few small scales on membranes of other 

 fins. Scales with? or 8 basal radiating striae; 87 to 97 apical denticles 

 with 6 to 8 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI-I, 17, I, third spine 2)i in head, first ray 3K; A. Ill, 18, i, 

 first branched ray 2%o; caudal IK, deeply emarginate or forked; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 4%; pectoral 1%; ventral 2)i. 



Uniform brown, each row of scales, especially on back, with 

 slightly paler median narrow streak. Iris yellowish brown, with 



J» Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 133, 1873 (type locality: Freemantle, Western Australia) . 

 i< Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 60, 61, 1911 (Freemantle). 



