22; 



Spliyraena forsteri Jordan & Scale, Bull. Buv. Fish. Washington, X.W. (1905) 



1906, p. 219 (nee C.V.). 



Sphyraena obtusata Jordan & .Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Washington, XXVI. (1906) 



1907, p. II. 



Sphyraena obtusata Evermann & Scale, ibid. p. 60. 



Sphyraena obttisala Kendall i^ Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 

 Coll. XXVI. 191 1, p. 261. 



D'. V; D-. 1.9; A. 2— 3.8— 9; p. 1. 12— 15; V. 1.5; L.l. 82— 85; 



L. tr. I . 

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Height about 6, about 7 in length with caudal. Head 2.8 — 3.4, 

 3,4^ — ^3.8 in length with caudal. Eye 4.3 — 4.5, not quite twice 

 in snout, 1.5 in postorbital part of head, considerably more 

 than interorbital space, which goes 1.4 in eye. Maxillaries not 

 reaching to frontborder of eye, 2.4 — 2.5 in head. Hindborder 

 of praeoperculum gently emarginate, its posterior angle rect- 

 angular and somewhat produced into a flexible flap. Operculum 

 without spines. Upper jaw with a series of small pointed 

 vertical teeth and with two pairs of canines in front, the fore- 

 most pair being the smaller. Lower jaw with a series of more 

 distant and larger vertical teeth and a single small canine at 

 symphysis. A series of small teeth on palatines, with a few 

 canines in front of them. A slight fleshy knob at end of lower 

 jaw. Origin of first dorsal before vertical through tip of pec- 

 torals, and behind origin of ventrals. Its second or first and 

 second spine the longest, longer than postorbital part of head. 

 Distance between origin of first dorsal and snout equal to 

 distance between base of ventrals and end of base of anal. 

 Distance between the two dorsals twice or somewhat less than 

 twice the base of second dorsal. Dorsal and anal emarginate. 

 Origin of anal below first half of second dorsal. Pectorals longer 

 than postorbital part of head. Ventrals somewhat shorter than 

 pectorals. Caudal forked. Colour of alcohol specimens brownish 

 above, silvery below. A faint greyish longitudinal band below 

 lateral line. Fins yellowish. Length 400 mm. [A specimen of 

 Bleeker's collection in the Amsterdam Museum seen by us]. 



N o m. in dig.: Senuk (Batavia) ; Alu alu (Surabaya, Banjer- 

 massin). 



Habitat: Singapore ; Nias ; Sumatra (Telokbetong, Benkulen, 

 Padang, Priaman, Siboga); Banka; Java (Batavia, Surabaya, 

 Anjer) ; Borneo (Balikpapan !) ; Madura; Bali ; Java-sea ! ; Celebes 



