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small brown spots, of which one at base of each scale, smaller and 

 closer on occiput. Scales on lower part of body with bases minutely 

 dotted brown. Dorsals spotted like body, other fins immaculate. 

 Length 305 mm. (Playfair.) 

 East Africa, Natal. 



Subgenus Rhonciscus Jordan and Evermann 

 Body with dark longitudinal bands. 



POMADASYS STRIATUS (Gilchrist and Thompson) 



PrisHpoma striatum Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, 

 1908, p. 153. Natal; Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 1917, p. 354 (references). 



Pomadasys striatum Baenabd, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, 

 p. 680 (Natal; Delagoa Bay). 



Depth 23/5 to 2% ; head 2% to 3. Eye 31/2 in head, I14 in snout, 

 subequal with interorbital ; maxillary reaches hind nostril ; preopercle 

 edge serrate. Gill rakers 10 or 11 on lower branch of first arch. 

 Scales 58 to 62 (52 according to Gilchrist and Thompson) in lateral 

 line, 12 above, 24 below (18 according to Gilchrist and Thompson). 

 Tubes in lateral line mostly bifurcate. D. XI or XII, 13 or 14, 

 fifth or fourth and fifth spines longest, last spine not longer than 

 penultimate (fourth 2% in head according to Gilchrist and Thomp- 

 son) ; A. Ill, 6 (7 according to Gilchrist and Thompson), second 

 spine stronger and slightly longer than third (pectoral li/e in head, 

 ventral 1% — Gilchrist and Thompson). Silvery, with 3 dark, longi- 

 tudinal stripes, upper following dorsal profile, middle from above 

 orbit follows lateral line to end of soft dorsal w^here meeting lower, 

 which horizontal from eye to caudal. Reaches 190 mm. (Barnard.) 



Natal, Delagoa Bay. 



POMADASYS STRIDENS (Forsk&l) 



Sciaena stridens Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xii, 50. Arabia. — 

 BoNNATERRE, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 121 (Red Sea).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 

 Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 1303 (Arabia).— Waxeaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 

 1792, p. 317 (on Forskax). 



Perca stridens Schneidek, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 87 (Arabia). 



Pristipoma stridens Rxjppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 122, pi. 31, fig. 1 

 (Suez).— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 300 (Red Sea).— 

 Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 26 (Zanzibar; Aden). — IQ.unzinger, 

 Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 732 (Red Sea).— Day, Fishes 

 of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 72 (Aden). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 

 1884. p. 28 (Koseir).— Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 656 

 (Muscat).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 508.— 

 Pfeitek, Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anstalt., vol. 6, 1889, p. 22 (Suez). — 

 Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 1905, p. 330 (Persian 

 Gulf). — Peixegrin, Annuario Mus. Zool. R. Universit. Napoli, new ser., 

 vol. 3, No. 27, July 11, 1912, p. 6 (Massaoua). — Norman, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 London, pt. 3, No. 12, July 1927, p. 380 (Kabret, Red Sea). 



