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Height 4'/,—5'/,. Head 3'/,—4, eye 4'/,—6'/,, situated very much 
forward and high, with a rudimentary adipose eyelid, longer than 
obtuse snout, which is about equal to the concave interorbital 
space. Crown of head and occiput flat, corrugated. Mouth large, 
oblique, with the lower jaw slightly projecting and enclosed 
within the outer series of intermaxillary teeth. Origin of dorsal 
nearer to point of snout than to small adipose fin, which is 
opposite to the hinder half of the anal. Pectorals above the 
middle of the height, reaching to about the tenth scale of the 
lateral line. Origin of ventrals before end of pectorals, reaching 
beyond base of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Scales cycloid, 
in 6 or 7 rows on the cheeks, on opercle and along the prae- 
opercle. 17—18 scales between occiput and dorsal. Unequal, 
pointed teeth in 2—3 series on the jaws, a narrow band of 2 
series of equal teeth on each side of the palate. Depressible 
teeth in a narrow patch on the tongue and behind it in a 
band on the basibranchialia. Silvery yellow below, dark above, 
with faint grey irregular longitudinal stripes. Postocular part 
of head and dorsal with irregular ocelli and undulated patches, 
bordered with dark. A scapular black patch. Fins light yellow. 
Length 325 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Hissi-hissi(Ambon), Lumpah-lumpah, Sireh 
(Menado), Tjatja-witer (Batjan). 
Habitat: Sumatra (Benkulen); Nias!; Banka; Bali; Lom- 
bok!; Celebes (Bonthain, Menado); Batjan; Ambon; Ceram}; 
Ternate; Gébé!. — Australia. West Pacific to Sandwich islands, 
Philippines, Formosa, China, Japan. Tropical Indic and Atlantic. 
In sea. 
2. Saurus intermedius Agass. 
Saurus intermedius Agassiz, in Spix. Pisc. Brasil. 1828, p. 81. 
Saurus anolis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XXII. 1849, p. 483. 
Saurus intermedius Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 396. 
Saurus intermedius Giinther, Rep. Challenger Exp. Zoology, VI. Shore Fishes, 
1880, p. 50. 
Synodus intermedius Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 
1896, p. 535. 
B:. 625° D. 111350 A. 11-12 Pe 13 Vio el aoe 
ii: etre ss 
7. 
Elongate, stout, depressed, especially before dorsal. Height 
7—58, head 4, conical. Snout slightly prominent, pointed, broader 
than long, nearly equal to eye, which goes 4'/, times in length 
