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longer than the second, its length being contained twice and a 

 (juarter in the depth of the body and once and two-thirds in the 

 length of the head ; its width is one-tenth of its length. The 

 second anal spiTie is nearly equal in length to the third, and two- 

 fifths of the depth of the body ; its width is one-fifth or one-sixth 

 of its length. Uniform silvery ; dorsal fin with a blackish upper 

 margin. 



East Indies. 



a. Five and one-third inches long. From Dr. P. v. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection. 



12. Gerres subfasciatus. 



Cnv. fy Val. vi. p. 477. 



L». -. A. y. 



The height of the body is one-third of the total length ; the snout 

 is rather shorter than the diameter of the eye. Spines of the fins 

 slender : the third of the dorsal fin is one-half of the height of the 

 body, its width being less than one-twelfth of its length ; the 

 .second anal spine stronger but rather shorter than the third, and 

 about one-fifth of the height of the body. Silveiy, with six or seven 

 indistinct vertical bands. 



Port Jackson. 



a-h, c-e. Adult and half-grown : bad state. From the Haslar Col- 

 lection. 



13. Gerres ovatus. 



Gimth. Fishen, i. p. tM■^. 



D. j-^. A. |. L. lat. 36. L. transv. 5/10. 



The height of the body is twice and a quarter in the total length 

 (without caudal fin); the diameter of the eye is one-third of the 

 length of the head, longer than the snout, and equal to the distance 

 between the eyes. The groove for the processes of the intermaxillary 

 bones is short, and does not extend beyond the vertical from the an- 

 terior margin of the eye ; there are no scales between that groove 

 and the orbit. The spines of the dorsal slender and flexible : the 

 second and third longest, and twice and a half in the height of the 

 body ; the last four dorsal spines half as long as the third. The 

 third of the anal fin longest, shorter than the first ray, and nearly 

 one-fourth of the height of the body. Coloration uniform ; dorsal 

 black-edged. 



Coast of Australia. 



a, b. Adult. Australia. 



14. Gerres abbreviatus. 



Bhrker, Java, i. p. lOM, and JVj7i. Batav. (itnootseh. xxiii. Mamid. p. 11. 

 D. ^. A. -. L. lat. 33. L. transv. 5, 10. 



10 7 



The height of the body is contained twite and two-third-j in the 



