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1. Harpodon nehereus (Ham. Buch.). 
Osmerus > nehereus Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 209. 
Salmo (Harpodon) microps Lesueur, Journ. Philad. Acad. V. 1825, p. 48. 
Saurus ophiodon Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXII. 1849, p. 490. 
Saurus nehereus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1255. 
Harpodon nehereus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 402. 
Harpodon nehereus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 27, 1875, p. 157. 
B. 23—-26; D. 12—14; A. 14—15; P. 11—12; V. 9; L. I. 
about 40. 
Height 5—8. Head about 4. Eye very small, covered for a 
great part by an adipose membrane. Pectorals reaching to below 
middle of dorsal, about as long as ventrals. Scales commencing 
between dorsal and ventral fins, those of the lateral line behind 
Fig. 57. Harpodon nehereus (Ham. Buch.). 
the head. Brownish to greyish white, fins may be darkish. 
Length to 400 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Luli, Aruan-tassik (Malay.). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia, Surabaya); Madura; Sumatra (Ben- 
kulen, Padang, Priaman, Bagan api api!); Singapore; Banka; 
Borneo (Sinkawang, Sungiduri, Balikpapan!). — Pinang, Malacca; 
China. Indic: westward along the coast to Zansibar. 
In sea along the coast and in estuaries. 
4. Myctophum Rafinesque. 
(RAFINESQUE, Indice d’Ittiologia Siciliana, Messina 1810 , p. 56). 
(Myctophus Cocco, Scopelus Cuvier; autt.) 
Slender, compressed, with more or less deciduous cycloid 
or ctenoid scales. Lateral line present. Gape of mouth wide, 
dorsally formed by the intermaxilla. Size of eye increasing 
