45 



Microph'is Blcekcri Day, Fishes of Malabar, London, 1865, p. 265. 



Micropliis Jotiani Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poiss. II. 1870, p. 592. 



Microphis brachyiiriis Dumeril, ibid. p. 595. 



Microphis auronitens Dumeril, ibid. p. 597. 



Microphis Bleekcri Dumeril, ibid. p. 599. 



Doryichthys brachyiirus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 184. 



Doryichthys brachyurus Bleeker, Enumeration Poiss. de Madagascar in: Recherch. 



s. 1. Fauna de Madagascar, Leide, 1875, p. 75. 

 Doryichthys Bleekeri Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 680. 

 Microphis brachyurus Jordan & Scale, Fishes of Samoa, 1906, p. 214. 

 Corythroichthys Bleekeri Scale & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. XXXIII. 



1908, p. 240. 

 Doryichthys brachyurus Giinther, Fische d. Sildsee, 1910, p. 433. 

 Microphis brachyurus Duncker, Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. VII. prt. XXV. 1910, 



p. 26. — Mitt. a. d. naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XXXII. 1915, p. 45. 

 Microphis brachyurus Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 



Coll. XXVI. No. 7, 191 1, p. 264. 

 Doryrhaiiiphus brachyurus Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 1 17. 

 Doryrlianiphus brachyurus Sundara Raj, Records Indian Museum XII, prt. VI, 



1916, p. 269. 



U. 36—48; A. 3 — 4; P. 18—23; Rings 19 — 22 + 20—24; sub- 

 dorsal rings I — 3 + 6 — 9. 



Much elongated. Shields transversally striated, their keels 

 serrated and terminating in a spine, most conspicuous in young, 

 becomincj obsolete with as^e. This is also the case with the 

 edges on the head. Inferior cristae of trunk and tail disconti- 

 nuous; median cristae of trunk and inferior cristae of tail 

 continuous. Operculum with complete longitudinal keel and 

 up to 9 (generally 2 — 4) radiating ridges below it. Head 4"^ — 5 ; 

 tail without caudal shorter than trunk; snout about 2'/^ times 

 the length of the postorbital part of the head, about 1.5 or 

 more in length of head. Vent below or somewhat behind origin 

 of dorsal. Caudal shorter than postorbital part of head, its 

 middle ray enlarged and somewhat elongate. Alcohol-specimens 

 dark brown, lighter below; trunk and root of tail dotted with 

 minute white points. Operculum and anterior part of trunk 

 with black spots. A dark diffuse lateral band from snout to 

 tail. Length 225 mm. [Specimens of DoryichtJiys polyacanthus 

 Blkr. and of Doryichthys brachyurus Blkr. from Bleeker's 

 collection in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Nom. in dig. : tuvung tuvung and enai boe mand (Simalur, 

 Tapah); Sili (Javan.); Kilih buaja (Malay). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Tandjong); Simalur!; Nias (Lolowau!); 

 Java (Batavial, Lebak, Bantam, Priaman, Tjilatjap!, Palabuan 



