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Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1003, 1849 (1850) (reference) .- 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 246, 1860 (Ganges at Calcutta, 

 Bengal Bav, India).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 264, pi. 58, fig. 3, 1876 

 (Calcutta)".— Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 228, 1907 (Akyab). 

 Sillaginopsis domina Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 505 (com- 

 piled) .—Fowlek, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 654 

 (East Indies). 

 Depth 6%; head ^%, width 2%. Snout 2K in head; eye 9, 4 in snout, 

 1}^ in interorbital; maxillary reaches 1% to eye, expansion 1% in eye, 

 length 4% in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws and on vomer, 

 outer row in jaws sHghtly enlarged; interorbital shghtly convex, 6^ 

 in head; hind peropercle edge with large and rather blunt serrae, lower 

 edge entire. Gill rakers 3 + 6, lanceolate, short, % of gill filaments 



which iKin eye. , -, u 



Scales 85 in lateral hue to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 7 above, 

 13 below, 36 predorsal forward slightly before nostrils; 7 or 8 between 

 eye and angle of preopercle ridge and 2 more across preopercle flange. 

 Scales with 7 to 11 basal radiating striae; 43 or 44 slender, mmute api- 

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

 D. X-I, 26, 1, second spine prolonged filament equal to 1% in entire 

 length of specimen, first branched ray 2y, in head; A. II, 25, i, second 

 branched ray 3K; caudal 1%, slightly emarginate behind; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 4%; pectoral 17^3; ventral 2%. 



Upper half of body light brown, lower half paler to whitish. Ins 

 silvery white. Fins pale brownish. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 11668. East Indies. Dr. H. C. Wood. Length, 195 mm. 



Family ARRIPIDAE 



Body elongate, fusiform, well compressed. Head moderate or 

 small Snout conic. Eyes lateral, advanced in head. Mouth 

 cleft lateral, obhque. Teeth villiform or cardiform, in jaws and on 

 palate. Preopercle denticulate. Gill openings large. Air bladder 

 simple Vertebrae 25, of which 15 caudal. Scales of moderate size. 

 Lateral line complete. Dorsals continuous, with slender and rather 

 feeble spines, similar in anal. Paired fins small, short, subequal, 

 though ventrals thoracic. 



One genus, represented in southern Australian and New Zealand 

 seas. An aberrant percoid family, known chiefly by their feeble den- 

 tition and fin spines. 



Genus ARRIPIS Jenyns 



Arripis Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle, Fishes, vol. 4, p. 13, 1840. (Type, Centra- 



pristes georgianus Valenciennes, monotypic.) 

 Mnlloides (Solander) Richardson, Rep. 12th Meet. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., p. 



16 1842 (1843) [Type, Centropristes (Mulloides) saptdissimus (boLANDER) 



Richardson = Sctaena«ru«a Schneider, monotypic (precludes Mullotdes 



Bleeker, 1849, in Mullidae).] 

 Howodon Barneville, Rev. Zool., 1847, p. 133 (Type, Centropnstes georgtanm 



Valenciennes, monotypic.) 



