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4 examples. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length, 

 41-53 mm. 



1 example. Tuminilao Island anchorage. Electric light. February 26, 15)08. 

 Length, 40 mm. 



5 examples. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. Electric light. July 22, 1908. Length, 

 26-37 mm. 



6 examples. Varadero Bay. Electric light. July 23, 1908. Length, 25-52 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52019. Negros, Philippines. Dr. Bashford Bean. Length, 50-54 



mm. 3 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56169. Bacon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3501). Length, 



57 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59785. Susaki, Japan. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 77-78 mm. 2 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62342. Nagasaki, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 60-94 mm. 



50 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 70781. Kagoshima, Japan. Albatross collection 1900. Length, 79- 



94 mm. 10 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 87648. Tahiti, Society Islands. J. M. Clements. Length, 33 mm. 



STOLEPHORUS MADAGASCARIENSIS (Sauvage) 



Spratelloides madagascariensis Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1882, p. 160 

 (type locality: Madagascar); Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 496, pi. 

 48, fig. 2, 1891 (type). 



Spratelloides aestuarius Gelchribt, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 1, p. 

 55, fig., 1913 (type locality: Zwartkops River, Port Elizabeth; tidal rivers 

 East London; Princess Vlei, Cape Peninsula). — Rexjan, Ann. Durban Mus., 

 vol. 1, p. 167, 1916 (Durban). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban 

 Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 296, 1917 (reference). — Barnard, Ann. South African 

 Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 109, 1925 (False Bay, Port Elizabeth, East London, 

 Natal). 



GilcJiristella aestuarius Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 

 365, fig. 4, 1935 (Blue lagoon. Natal). 



Depth 5; head 3%. Snout 3% in head from snout tip; eye 4, 1\\q 

 in snout; maxiUary reaches front eye edge, length 2% in head from 

 snout tip; mandible apparently slightly protruded; interorbital low, 

 scarcely elevated. 



Scales 38 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter; 9 transversely, about 19 predorsal. 



D. Ill, 13, first branched ray II/3 in total head length, origin slightly 

 behind ventral origin; A. 16 branched rays (description gives A. 19), 

 fin length 114 in head, first branched ray 31/2 ; caudal 31/5 in combined 

 head and body to caudal base, well forked, long lobes pointed ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% in head; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Brownish, broad silvery band from head to caudal. Length, 60 

 mm. (Sauvage.) 



South Africa, Natal, Madagascar. Though I have identified the 

 South African form with the present species the figure by Sauvage 

 differs a little from his description. Possibly owing to an artist's 

 mistake ?, the belly shows 9 preventral denticles and 7 postventral! 



