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anterior ones. Origin of dorsal above second divided ray of 

 anal, separated by I2 scales from lateral line. Caudal slightly 

 emarginate. Colour in alcohol brownish above, lighter below 

 with an indistinct silvery lateral band. Length 600 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Java (Batavia!); r Borneo; Biliton ; 

 Celebes (Makassar!); Banda; Halmahera; Timor ; Island Biaru ! ; 

 New Guinea. — Indian Ocean (C.V.), Philippines, Admiralty 

 Islands, Pelew Islands, Ponape, Ruk, Samoa. 



6. Tylosurus annulatus (C. V.) 



Bclonc annulata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 447. 

 Bcloiie gigantea Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons II, 1847, p. 245. 

 Belone melanurus Blacker, Verhand. Bat. Genootsch. XXII. 1849, Bijdr. Ichth. 



Madura p. Ii. 

 Belone tiniiicoides Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch. III. 1849, P- 67 & 68. 

 Belone annulata Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1226. 

 Belone cylindrica Bleeker, Verhand. Bat. Genootsch. XXIV. Snoekacht. Visschen, 



1852, p. 13. 

 Belone gigantea Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. III. 1S5S. Japan p. 21. 

 Mastacembchis gigantezis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschf, Dierk. I. 1863, p. 236. 

 Belone cylindrica Kner, Fische Novara Exp. I. 1865 — 1867, p. 321. 

 Mastacembelits choram Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 277 (nee 



Ruppell). 

 Mastaccnibclns aimulatus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 229. 

 Belone annulata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 240 (nee syn.). 

 Mastacembelits annulatus Bleeker, All. ichth. VI. 1866 — 1872, p. 48. 

 Belone annulata Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878— 1888, p. 510. 

 Tylosurus giganteus Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVI. 1903, p. 529. 

 Tylosurus gigantcus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 124. 

 Belone gigantea Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 350. 



D. 2.20 — 22; A. 2.18 — 2.20; P. 1. 12 — 14; V. 1. 5; L.l. circa 350. 



Moderately compressed, the breadth of the body going 

 1.2 — 1.4 in the height. Free portion of the tail more or less 

 tetrahedral, higher than broad. Height 15—17, 16— 20 in length 

 with caudal. Head 3.1—3.3, 3-5 — 3-7 in length with caudal. 

 Eye 2.1 — 2.5 in postorbital part of head, i — 1.3 in interorbital 

 space and 5.5 to nearly 7 in snout. Height of mandible below 

 pupil about equal to half (greatest) diameter of eye. Upper 

 surface of head flat with a very broad shallow median groove. 

 A narrow stripe in the middle, widening anteriorly to an 

 oblong patch, is scaly. Sides of groove with deep furrows and 

 well developed ridges. Supraorbital region with very numerous 

 feeble striae, but so feebly developed that the bone is almost 



