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Range: — East Coast of Australia, Amboina, aiul Keimioii. 



Dimoisious: — Attains a length oi" fully 600 luilliui. (Castelnau). 



R( marks: — Since writing the above McCuUoeh has described and figurecT 

 this fish as Aprion rosius Castelnau; nevertheless I still hold to the oi)iniun that 

 our fish cannot be separated from that of Bleeker. 



Part XII.— NEMIPTERID^ (No. 1). 



NEMIPTERUS Swainson. 



Nemipterus Swainson, Classif. Fish., ii, 1S39, pp. 172, 223 (filamcnlosus = ncmatophoru's) ; 

 Jordan & Thompson, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., xli, 1912, p. 563. 



Synagris Giinthcr. Brit. Mns. Catal. Fish., i, 1859, p. 373 {furcosus) ; Day, Fish. India, pt. 1, 

 1875, p. 90: .Jordan & Thompson, ibid. Subg3nus. 



Dentex Bleeker, Atlas lehth., viii, 1877, p. 80 (tcemopterus) . Not of Cuvier. 



Anemura Foivler, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, p. 527 (notatiis = Ueniopterns) = Synagris. 



Odonioglyphis Fowler, ibid, (tolu) ; Jordan & Thompson, ibid. Subgenus. 



Euthyopteroma Fowler, ibid, (blorliii) ; Jordan & Thompson, ibid. Subgenus. 



Body elliptical and compressed. Scales moderate, adherent, ciliated. 

 Lateral line complete, not extending on the caudal fin, the tubes simple. Head 

 moderate, with wide smooth j)reorbital, the occiput, opercles (except the 

 preopercle), and cheeks scaly, those of the latter arranged in three series; scales 

 of head cycloid and smooth, except those of the parietal region, and a, row 

 between the occiput and nape, the scales of which are modified so as to form 

 inucigerous organs. Mouth terminal and protractile, with moderate slightly 

 oblique cleft, the jaws equal ; maxillary mostly exposed, without supplemental 

 bone. Jaws with a band of villiform teeth, the outer row conical and somewhat 

 enlarged; upper jaw with three or four i)airs of moderately strong canines; 

 canines of lower jaw, if pi-escnt, weak. Preopercle entire or feebly seri'uhite; 

 bpereular spine weak or absent. Doi-sal fin scaleless, Avith x 9 i-ays, the spines 

 Teeble and sometiTnes filamentous. Caudal tleeply forkeii, the upp.'r I'ay .sorne- 

 iinies filamentous. Anal witii iii 7 rays, similar to the soft dorsal. Pectoral 

 'pointed, with 15 to 18 rays. Ventral inserted below or beliind the pectoral-base, 

 Vith i 5 rays, the outer sometimes produced ; accessory ventral scale present. Six 

 trrancliiostegals. Air-bladtler notched jjostci'iorly. Pyloric appendages in small 

 tTuitibor. {vrnia, a thread ; Trnpov, a fin.) 



'" . Perciform fishes of moderate size, inhabiting the warmer zones of the 

 Indian and Western Pacific Oceans, ranging from the Red Sea and East Coast of 

 Afi'ii';i tlirongii the iniliiin Seas northwards to China ami Japan, and eastwards 

 through .Malaysia to .\e\v Cuinea, the Ijouisiade Ai'chipelago, and the East Coa.st 

 of Ausli-alia. They ai'e jjanfislies of excellent fiavoi', and as they arc found in 



