PSETTODID.E 



ndea 



-\lso 3 from off Gloucester Head, Queensland {Austr. Mus.) ; several from India, 

 Burma and the Andaman Is. (Ind. Mus.) ; and i from Colombo, Ceylon, and 5 from 

 Singapore (Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Attains a lengtti of about 2 feet. 



2. PSETTODES BELCHERI, Bennett. 



Fseltodfs brlcheri, Bennett, 1831, Pror. Comni. Zool. Soc. (12), p. 147 ; Cope, 1S69, Traus. Amer. 



Phil. Soc. Philad., xiii, p. 407 ; Chabanaud and Monod, 1927, Bull. Coin. Etud. Hist. Sci. 



Afriq. Occ. Fr., (1926), p. 280 ; Monod, 1927, Faune Colon. Fran^., i, p. 720. 

 Pscttodes erumci (part), Gunther, 1862, Cat. Fish., iv, p. 402. 



Psettodis bennettii, Steindachner, 1870, SitzBer. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ix (l), p. 976. 

 P^ettndes erumei, Pellegrin, 1905, -Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux (6) x (Ix), p. 30, fig. ; Ehrenbaum, 1913, 



Fischerbote, v, p. 361, fig. ; Pellegrin, 1914, Ann. Inst, oceanogr. Paris, vi (4) p. 73 ; Metzelaar, 



1919, Trop. .\tlant. Visschen, p. 275 ; Fowler, 1919, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Ivi, p. 248. 



Closely related to P. erumei, but depth of body 2J to 2J in the length, length of 

 head 3I to 3 J. Length of lower jaw 4I to 5 in that of fish (without caudal). 21 to 

 zz scales between lateral line and middle of back, 29 or 30 round caudal peduncle. 

 I-ength of pectoral of ocular side 2 to 2j in that of head. Brownish or blackish, with 

 irregular darker spots or blotches ; sometimes some small scattered white spots ; 



