2.2 — 2.6 in distance between two dorsals. Origin of anal below 

 fourth ray of second dorsal. Pectorals somewhat longer than 

 postorbital part of head. Ventrals shorter than pectorals. Caudal 

 forked. Colour of alcohol specimens brownish above, silvery 

 below. Length 475 mm. [Specimens of Bleeker's collection 

 in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



N o m. indig. : Senuk (Batavia). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Padang, Benkulen) ; Java (Batavia, Cheri- 

 bon!); Bali; Timor; Borneo (Sandakan) ; Celebes (Makassar, 

 Menado); Sangir-Islands; Ambon; New Guinea. — Calcutta, 

 P'ormosa, Fiji-Islands. 



In sea. 



4. Sphyraena picuda Bl. Schn. 



Sphyraena sphyrfie/ia Forskal, Uescr. Animaiiam 1775, P- ^^ (y^tc L.). 



Sphyraena sphyraena var. picuda Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. l8oi, p. iio. 



Sphyraena barracuda Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1829, p. 343. 



Sphyraena Coiiiiuersonii Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 352. 



Sphyraena Dussuviieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. VII. 1831, p. 508. 



Sphyraena again Riippell, Neue VVirbellhiere, Fische 1835, P- 99- 



Sphyraena CoiuDicrsonii Blceker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. (1848) 1849, Bijdr. 



Perco'iden p. 55; Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 425; Verh. Bat. 



Gen. XXVI. 1854 — 1857, Bijdr. SphyraenoTden, p. 15. 

 Sphyraena picttda Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mas. II. i860, p. 336. 

 Sphyraena Coininersoni Giinther, ibid. p. 338. 

 } Sphyraena dussiiniieri Giinther, ibid. p. 339. 

 Sphyraena agam Giinther, ibid. p. 341. 



Sphyraena Coininersoni Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1865, p. 265. 

 Sphyraena agam Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Gesellsch. Wien Bd. XX. 1870, 



p. 822; Fische des Rothen Meeres I. 1884, 4°, p. 129. 

 Sphyraena coininersoni Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 343. 

 Sphyraena picuda Jordan & pA'ermann, Fishes North & Middle America, part I. 



1896, p. 823. 

 Sphyraena snodgrassi Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XIX. (1899) I90l,p. 388. 

 Sphyraena snodgrassi P'owler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia EV. 1904, p. 749. 

 Sphyraena snodgrassi ]oxAm\ & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 142. 

 Sphyraena commersoni Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 1908, p. 245. 

 Sphyraena picuda M. Weber & de Beaufort. Zool. Mededeel. VI. Leiden 1921, p. 70. 



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D'. V; D-. 2— 8; A. 2.7; P. 13; V. 1.5; L.I. + 80; L.tr. ^. 



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 Height 5.8 — 7.2, 7.1 — 8.6 in length with caudal. Head 2.8—3, 



3.4 — 3.7 in length with caudal. Eye 6 — 6.4, 2.4 — 2.8 in snout, 



somewhat less than interorbital space, more than twice in 



postorbital part of head. Maxillary reaching nearly or quite 



below frontborder of eye, 2.2 — 2.4 in head. Angle of prae- 



