346 PRISTIPOMATID^. 



Gerres punctatus, Bleeker, Topogr, Batav. (not Cuv.). 

 Catochacnum filamentosum, Cant. Catal. p. 56. 



D. ^. A. y. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 6/12. 



The height of the body is 2^ in. the total length (without caudal 

 fin). The spines of moderate strength ; the second of the anal pro- 

 duced into a filament, which sometimes extends to the caudal. 



Sea of Pinang; Sunda and Molucca Sea; New Guinea. 



a. Adult : not good state. Molucca Sea. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 h. Adult : not good state. Molucca Sea. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Adult; stuffed. Cape York (in 68 fathoms). Voyage of the 



Rattlesnake. 



9. Gerres punctatus. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. vi. p. 480, 



D.^. A.i-. 



10 8 



The height of the body is 3^ in the total length. The second 

 dorsal ^pinc 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. 



Gerres macracanthus (Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 

 1854, vi. p. 195) may be foimded on older individuals of the above 

 species. (A. y. L. lat. 40.) Caught near Batavia. 



o. Adult. Old Collection, as Sparus edentulus. 



b, c. Yoimg. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



d. Half-grown. Philippine Islands. 



«. Half-grown. Presented by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 



10. Gerres gnla. 

 Cuv. Sf Val. vi. p. 464 ; Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 58. 

 D. ^. A. y. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 4/9. Vert. 9/15. 



The height of the body is 2|- in the total length (without caudal 

 fin). Praeorbital and prteoperculum entire, the latter Avith the angle 

 shghtly rounded. The groove for the processes of the intermaxillaries 

 extends nearly to the vertical from the centre of the eye ; a trans- 

 verse stripe of scales covers a part of the groove, separating from 

 it the posterior third*. The snout is shorter than the diameter of 

 the eye, and equal to the space between the eyes. The spines of 

 the fins of moderate strength ; the second and third of the dorsal 

 half as long as the head, but twice as long as the second of the anal. 

 Silvery : dorsal fin minutely dotted with brown ; the dots more 

 crowded at the top of the dorsal. 



Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



* Space between the eyes with a fovea in the middle {Jenyns, I. c.) 



