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minute dusky dots, chiefly on fin rays. Upper and lower lobes of 

 caudal often dusted little darker. Fins otherwise all more or less 

 pale to whitish. Iris silvery white. Preserved examples show head 

 and lower side of body frequently with bright silvery white tints. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Natal, Madagascar, Mau- 

 ritius, Reunion, Bourbon, India, Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, 

 Queensland, Polynesia. Da3 T 's figure of Ambassis commersonii differs 

 in that the cheek is shown with three rows of scales and the pre- 

 orbital ridge entire. Bleeker's figure of Ambassis commersoni also 

 does not show the preorbital ridge serrated though with the hind 

 preopercle ridge so. Also the spinous dorsal has the entire upper 

 terminal portion grayish, though the second membrane not darker 

 than the rest of the fin, as in most of our specimens, and given in his 

 description. Bleeker shows the predorsal scales large. 



One example. Bagaong River, Sablayan Bay, Mindoro Strait. December 13, 



1908. Length 31 mm. 

 Two examples. Davao, Mindanao Island. May 16, 190S. Length 30 mm. 

 11514 to 11517. Duwaca River, Luzon. February 25, 1909. Length 80 to 



161 mm. 17 examples. 

 Eight examples. Malaga River, Leyte Island. July 30, 1909. Length 120 mm. 

 5338, 5339. Nonucan River, Camp Overton, Mindanao Island. August 6, 1909. 



Length 88 to 122 mm. 7 examples. 

 Six examples. Paluan River, Mindoro Island. December 11, 1908. Length 



35 to 55 mm. 

 11322. San Roque, Leyte Island. July 29, 1909. Length 110 mm. 

 21387, 21388. Sebatic Island. January 2, 1909. Length 67 to 80 mm. 

 Four examples. Yom River, Tayabas, Marinduque Island. February 25, 1909. 



Length 120 to 140 mm. 

 One example. Sandakan Bay, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length 40 mm. 



AMBASSIS INTERRUPTA Bleeker 



Ambassis interrupta Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 

 696. Wahai, Ceram and Batavia, Java. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 226 (copied). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Ber- 

 lin, 1868, p. 255 (Quingo River at Calumpit, Luzon; Calbigan River, 

 Samar). — Day, Fishes of India, pt.l, 1875, p. 53, pi. 15, fig. 5 (Anda- 

 mans). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1S76-77, p. 137, 

 pi. (70) 348, fig. 5 (Singapore, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Batjan, Buru, 

 Ceram, Amboina, Luzon, Samar). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, 

 vol. 1, 1876, p. 386 (Singapore). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., 

 Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 12 (Manado, Celebes). — Gorgoza, Anal. Soc. 

 Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 17, 1888, p. 283 (Rio Pasig).— Day, Fauna 

 Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 487. — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 217 (Kawa, Ceram). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 

 1928, p. 166 (New Guinea). 



Ambassis interruptus Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 1895, p. 467 (Luzon, Manila, 

 Rio Pasig). 



Priopis interruptus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 18 (Cavite). 



Priopis interrupta Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 

 (1908), p. 255 (Mindoro and Cuyo). 



