:^00 GEREID.*:. 



second dorsal spine. There are four series of scales between tlie 

 highest point of the lateral line and the dorsal tin. Silvery ; caudal 

 with a broadish, blackish margin ; the spinous dorsal with a narrow 

 black edge. 



Coast of Coromandel ; Pinang. 



a-b. Seven inches and three and a half inches long : skins. Pinang. 

 From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



19. Gerres punctatus. 

 Cur. Sf Vol. vi. p. 480. 



D.^- A.|. 



The height of the body is contained thrice and a half in the total 

 length. The second dorsal spine prolonged into a short filament, and 

 sometimes as long as three-quarters of the height of the body. Silvery ; 

 dorsal with a narrow black margin, each ray with a brown point at 

 the base. Young individuals with indistinct cross-bands. 



Coast of Pondicherry ; Sea of China. 



? a. Adult : bad state. Old Collection ; named /S^jarws edentnlux. 

 20. Gerres japonicus. 



Sleeker, Japan, p. 404, and Verh. Bat. Gen. xxvi. Japan, p. 9-3. tab. 5. 

 fig. 2. 



D. ^. A. -. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 5/10. 

 10 7 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds in the 

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

 or a little less than one-third of the length of the head. Snout 

 rather shorter than the eye, the diameter of which equals the width 

 of the interorbital space in half-grown specimens, and is rather less 

 in adult ones. The groove for the processes of the intermaxillaries 

 is short, ovate, obtusely rounded behind, and extends scarcely beyond 

 the vertical from the front margin of the eye. Prsorbital and prae- 

 operculum entire. The free portion of the tail is considerably longer 

 than high. Dorsal spines rather slender : the second scarcely longer 

 than the third, one-half of the height of the body and two-thirds of 

 the length of the head. Anal spines rather stout : the second is 

 shorter than the third, and nearly one-fourth of the height of the 

 body ; the caudal lobes are contained four times and two-thirds or 

 four times and three-quarters in the total length. Dorsal blackish 

 superiorly ; each ray and the posterior spines with a blackish dot near 

 the base. 



Japanese and C!hinese Seas. 



a-i. Adult. Amoy. 



1-. Adult. From Dr. P. v. Blceker's Collection. 

 1, m-n. Half-grown and young : not good state. China. Presented 

 by J. R. Eeeves, Esq. 



