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Orbital space, a little more than twice in postorbital part of 

 head. Maxillaries reaching almost or quite to vertical through 

 frontborder of eye, 2.4 in head. Angle of praeoperculum rect- 

 angular. A series of numerous small teeth in upper jaw, with 

 one or two canines in front, a series of similar teeth on pala- 

 tines, preceded by 3 canines; teeth of lower jaw vertical, 

 distant, increasing in size posteriorly. A single canine at sym- 

 physis. Rasplike teeth on tongue. Origin of first dorsal behind 

 tip of pectorals and before origin of ventrals. Second spine 

 of first dorsal the longest and equal to -/g of postorbital part 

 of head. Distance between the two dorsals equal to twice base of 

 second dorsal. Origin of anal below 7th ray of second dorsal. 

 Pectorals about 2.5 in head, ventrals much shorter, about 4 in 

 head. Caudal deeply forked. Length 275 mm. [A specimen from 

 Japan of Bleeker's collection in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 

 Habitat: Celebes (Menado). — Japan, Formosa? 



Note. Bleeker I.e. i860, mentions this species in a list of 

 fishes from Celebes. This is the only record of the species 

 from the indo-australian Archipelago ever made. Although 

 Bleeker's lists are generally very accurate, we are not sure 

 that in this case he did not make a mistake. There is no 

 specimen from Celebes in Bleeker's collection in the Leiden 

 or Amsterdam Museum. 



6. Sphyraena. obtusata C.V. 



} Sphyraena chinensis Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons IIL 1803, p. 324; \A. 10, fig. 2. 

 Sphyraena ohiiisata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons HI, 1829, p. 350. 

 Sphyraena favicaiida Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 



1835, p. 100. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VIL 1854, p. 364. — 



Verb. Bat. Gen. XXVL 1854—1857, Bijdr. Sphyiaenoiden, p. 17. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIH. 1S50, p. 1006. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1\. i860, p. 339. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Kner, Novara Exp. Fische, 1865 — 1867, p. 140. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Klunzinger, Abh, zool. bot. Ges. Wien,XX. 1870, p. S20. — 



Fische des Rothen Meeres \. 1884, p. 128. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, IL 1876, p. 212. 

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

 Sphyraena strenua De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, VIII. 1883, p. 287 '). 

 Spliyraena obtusata Sauvage, Poissons de Madagascar, 1891, p. 411. 

 Sphyraena obtusata Scale, Occas. Papers Bishop B. P. Mus. I. 1901, p. 66. 



1) Fide Ogilhy, Mem. Queensl. Mus. II. 191 3, p. 92. 



