band with one or two rows. Numerous fine teeth on tongue 

 and branchial arches. Branchiostegal rays 13 16. Gillopenings 

 very wide. Opercular apparatus well developed, scaly as also 

 the postorbital part of head. Gillmembranes free. Pseudobran- 

 chiae well developed. 



Note: For larval stages see p. 149. 



Fig. 53. Saurida gradlis (Q. G.). 



Synopsis of the species. 



I. Pectorals somewhat shorter than head without snout, 

 reaching to twelfth scale of lateral line, which has 



49 5 scales. L. tr. - - ; D. 12 13 ....... S. grandisquamis p. 141. 



II. Pectorals shorter than postorbital part of head, 

 reaching to ninth or tenth scale of lateral line, 

 which has 50 63 scales. D. n. 



4 i/ 9 



a. L.I. 54-63; L. tr. 2-2; B. 14-16; P. 14-15. S. tumbil p. 142. 



b. L.I. 50-52; L. tr. --; B. 12-13; p - 12-13. & gradlis p. 143. 



i. Saurida grandisquamis Gthr. 



Saurida grandisquamis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. v. 1864, p. 400. 

 Saurida grandisquamis Giinther, Challenger Rep. VI. Shore Fishes, 1880, p. 50. 

 Saurida grandisquamis Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 377. 

 Saurida grandisquamis Max Weber, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. XXXIV. 

 1911, p. 22. 



B. 15; D. 1213; A. II; P. 12; V. 9; L. 1. 49 50; L. 



Height 7'/2 head 4 ! / 4 4 1 / 3 . Eye about 5'/ 2 , with moderately 

 developed eyelids, slightly shorter than interorbital space and 

 than snout, which is obtuse, broad and superiorly with a con- 

 cavity, which extends to posterior part of head. Dorsal midway 

 between snout and caudal, much higher than long, its third 

 longest ray equal to distance between nostril and hinderborder 

 of operculum. Its base somewhat more than postorbital part 



