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lateral axial streak, little below axial line at first, though embracing 

 lateral line at caudal peduncle. Iris gray, with pale yellowish brown 

 tinge. Fins with most membranes transparent. Spinous dorsal 

 with dusky to blackish dots terminally. All fins with some dark 

 dots on longest rays, more or less terminally. 



East Indies, PhiHppines, A slender species, unique in the expanded 

 front outer edges of the ventrals, so well shown in Bleeker's figure. 

 Bleeker mentions it as rare, he having but three specimens 134 to 

 224 mm long. The following are all in the National Museum. 



21071 to 21073. Abuyag, Leyte. July 26, 1909. Length, 174 to 242 mm. 

 Three examples. Beach near anchorage off Daet, Luzon. June 15, 1909. 

 Length, 165 to 190 mm. 



Genus SILLAGINODES Gill 



Sillaginodes Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 504. (Type, 



Sillago punctata Cuvier, orthotypic.) 

 IsosiUago Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 34, 1879. 



(Type, IsosiUago maculata Macleay, monotypic.) 



Body elongated, scarcely compressed, back and abdomen more or 

 less convex or rounded. Head elongate, conic, compressed, gradually 

 narrowed forward. Eyes moderate, nearly median. Mouth small, 

 jaws even or lower shorter. Scales very small, 170 in longitudinal 

 row. First dorsal slopes down backward, margin straight or convex, 

 spines 12; second dorsal longer, with spine and 26 rays. Anal with 

 slender spine and 22 rays. Caudal emarginate. Ventral with 

 slender spine. 



Known by its very small scales and unequal rays of soft dorsal 

 and anal. One species in Australia. 



SILLAGINODES PUNCTATA (Cuvier) 



Sillago punctata Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 413, 1829 (type locality: 

 Port King George). — Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, 

 p. 671, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1834 (Port King George).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 2, p. 245, 1860 (Hobsons Bay; South Australia). — Canestrini, 

 Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 1, p. 151, 1869 (Australia). — 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 16, 1869 (Australia). — Castel- 

 NAU, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 93, 1872 (Melbourne); 

 London Internat. Exhib. Cat., p. 132, 1872 (Victoria). — Kltjnzinger, Sitz. 

 Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 369, 1879 (Port 

 Philip, Hobsons Bay, King George Sound). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godef- 

 froy, No. 7, p. 44, 1879 (New Holland). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 5, pt. 4, p. 566, 1881 (Hobsons Bay, Port Philip, South 

 Australia). — Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 109, 1906 (Victoria, Tasmania, 

 New South Wales); Edible Fishes New South Wales, p. 66, pi. 36, 1908.— 

 Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 100, fig. 152, 1921.— 

 Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 654 (Mel- 

 bourne). 



Sillaginodes punctata Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 505 (com- 

 piled). — McCuLLOCH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 50, pi. 21, fig. 

 183a, 1927. 



