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Three examples. Electric light off Kowloon dock. September 8, 1908. Length 



20 to 23 mm. 

 Seventy-four examples. Dip net off Kowloon dock (ship's side). September 



9, 1908. Length 11 to 25 mm. 

 One hundred sixty-seven examples. Dip net off Kowloon dock (ship's side). 



September 12, 1908. Length 15 to 25 mm. 

 One hundred eighty-five examples. Electric light Kowloon dock. September 



14, 1908. Length 18 to 40 mm. 



AMBASSIS GYMNOCEPHALUS (LacepSde) 



Lutjanus gymnocephalus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 181, 

 216. Great EquinoxiaL Ocean (Indo-Pacific) ; vol. 3, 1801, pi. 23, fig. 3. 



Ambassis gymnocephalus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, 

 1876-77, p. 138, pi. (74) 352, fig. 3 (Sumatra, Pinang, Singapore, 

 Bintang, Banka, Java, Madura, Bali, Celebes, Timor, Batjan, Buru, 

 Amboina). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 54, pi. 15, fig. 6 (Cochin); 

 Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 489. — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, 1905, p. 501 (Baram, Borneo). — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, vol. 30, 1905, p. 85 (Tonkin). — Steindachner, Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 71, 1907, p. 129 (Tamarida, Sokotra).— Weber, 

 Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 217 (Djankar, north Java). — Fowler 

 and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, 1927, p. 6 (Benkoelen, 

 Sumatra). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 75 

 (Sigan and Orani, Philppines). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, 

 1927, p. 644 (Natal coast). 



Priopis gymnocephalus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 

 1905, p. 780 (Negros). — Seale, Philippine Journ, Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, 

 p. 274 (Sandakan, Borneo). 



Ambassis dussumieri Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1829, p. 181. 

 Malabar. — Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 503 (Molu- 

 cas); vol. 9, 1833, p. 43 (Mauritius and Seychelles). — Quoy and Gaimard, 

 Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., 1834, p. 650, pi. 1, fig. 3 (Amboina and Celebes). — 

 Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 225 (China).— Kner, 

 Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 41 (Madras). — Playfair, 

 Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 19 (Zanzibar). — Day, Fishes of Malabar, 



1867, p. 16; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 681 (Andamans). — Karoli, 

 Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882. p. 151 (Singapore). — Elera. 

 Cat. Fauna Filip., 1895, p. 467 (Cebu). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amster- 

 dam, 1913, p. 113 (Njanjef and Majalibit Bay, Waigiu). — Fowler, Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 166 (compiled). 



Chanda dussumieri Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 6 (Sea of Pinang). 

 Priopis argyrozona (Kuhl) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1S33, 



p. 503. No locality (Java). 

 Ambassis vachellii (not Richardson) Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1868, p. 255 (Pulo brani, Singapore). 



Depth 2Y 2 to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 2]/ 2 to 2%. Snout \y 2 

 to 5 in head measured from upper jaw tip; eye 3 to V/%, greater than 

 snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, expan- 

 sion 4 in eye, length 2% to 3 in head from snout tip; teeth extremely 

 minute, barely evident in jaws and on vomer, apparently none on 

 palatines or tongue; interorbital 3% to A.y%, slightly convex; usually 

 5 supraocular serrae, last largest; 5 or 6 serrae on each lower preorb- 

 ital edge; lower preopercle ridge and edge serrate, hind edges of both 



