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of head. Adipose fin shorter than eye. Pectorals somewhat 
shorter than head without snout, extending to the twelfth or 
thirteenth scale of the lateral line and nearly to the vertical 
through the origin of the dorsal. Ventrals equal to head without 
snout. Caudal deeply forked, 5 times in length, and equal to 
height of dorsal. 16—17 scales between occiput and dorsal, 4 
transverse rows of scales on cheeks, a conspicuous ridge along 
the caudal part of the lateral line. Pointed, unequal, depressible 
teeth in several rows in the jaws, the innermost the longest. 
2 bands of several rows of teeth on both sides of the palate. 
Teeth on tongue and branchial arches. Blackish olive above, 
silvery below. Anterior rays of dorsal and superior rays of 
caudal with brown dots. Caudal dark, dorsal and ventrals in 
a less degree. Length more than 260 mm. 
Habitat: Aru-islands!; Arafura Sea. — Louisiade Archipel- 
ago; Australia‘; Malacca: Kuala Lumpur? (Duncker). 
2. Saurida tumbil (B1.). 
Salmo tumbil Bloch, Auslind. Fische, IX. 1795, p. 112. 
Saurus badi Cuvier, Regne animal, II. 1829, p. 314. 
Saurus badimottah Riippell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835—1840, p. 77. 
Saurus argyrophanes Richardson, Ichth. China, Rep. British Association of 1845. 
London 1846, p. 302. 
Saurus undosquamis Richardson, Voyage Erebus & Terror, 1848, p. 138. 
Saurida tombil Cuvier & Valenciennes, Poissons XXII. 1849, p. 500. 
Saurus badi Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1859, p. 1252 & 1424. 
Saurida tumbil Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 399. 
Saurida argyrophanes Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 400. 
Saurida undosquamis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 400. 
Saurida tumbil Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27, 1875, p. 155. 
Saurida argyrophanes Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXV. 1902, p. 329. 
Saurida badi Jordan & Seale, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXVIII. 1905, p. 772. 
Saurida argyrophanes Jordan & Herre, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXII. 1907, p. 519. 
Saurida eso Jordan & Herre, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXII. 1907, p. 520. 
B. 14—16; D.11; A. 10—11; P. 14—15; V.9; L.1. 54—63; 
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Elongate, subcylindrical, anteriorly depressed as also the head. 
Height 7—9. Head 4'/, to about five; eye with a rather 
broad adipose eyelid, 4'/,—6, nearly equal to broad, conical 
snout, which has a broad, concave depression extending behind 
the eyes. Gape of mouth very wide, slightly oblique, the jaws 
equal. Dorsal short, about midway between snout and base 
