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Height 4 ! /3 5 ! /2- Head 3V 2 4 e Y e 4*li&l 2 , situated very much 

 forward and high, with a rudimentary adipose eyelid, longer than 

 obtuse snout, which is about equal to the concave interorbital 

 space. Crown of head and occiput flat, corrugated. Mouth large, 

 oblique, with the lower jaw slightly projecting and enclosed 

 within the outer series of intermaxillary teeth. Origin of dorsal 

 nearer to point of snout than to small adipose fin, which is 

 opposite to the hinder half of the anal. Pectorals above the 

 middle of the height, reaching to about the tenth scale of the 

 lateral line. Origin of ventrals before end of pectorals, reaching 

 beyond base of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Scales cycloid, 

 in 6 or 7 rows on the cheeks, on opercle and along the prae- 

 opercle. 17 18 scales between occiput and dorsal. Unequal, 

 pointed teeth in 2 3 series on the jaws, a narrow band of 2 

 series of equal teeth on each side of the palate. Depressible 

 teeth in a narrow patch on the tongue and behind it in a 

 band on the basibranchialia. Silvery yellow below, dark above, 

 with faint grey irregular longitudinal stripes. Postocular part 

 of head and dorsal with irregular ocelli and undulated patches, 

 bordered with dark. A scapular black patch. Fins light yellow. 

 Length 325 mm. 



Nomen indig. : Hissi-hissi (Ambon), Lumpah-lumpah, Sireh 

 (Menado), Tjatja-witer (Batjan). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Benkulen); Nias!; Banka; Bali; Lom- 

 bok!; Celebes (Bonthain, Menado); Batjan; Ambon; Ceram!; 

 Ternate; Gebe!. -- Australia. West Pacific to Sandwich islands, 

 Philippines, Formosa, China, Japan. Tropical Indie and Atlantic. 



In sea. 



2. Saurus intermedius Agass. 



Saurus intermedius Agassiz, in Spix. Pise. Brasil. 1828, p. 81. 



Saurus anolis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XXII. 1849, p. 483. 



Saurtts intermedius Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 396. 



Saurus intermedius Gunther, Rep. Challenger Exp. Zoology, VI. Shore Fishes, 



1880, p. 50. 

 Synodus intermedius Jordan Evermann, Fishes North and Middle America, 



1896, p. 535- 



B. 12; D. 11 13; A - II 12; P. 13; V. 8; L. 1.48 52; 



L. tr.t :;,-.; ; .- t . .;;;, ,; ;,;; , : 



Elongate, stout, depressed, especially before dorsal. Height 

 7 8, head 4, conical. Snout slightly prominent, pointed, broader 

 than long,. nearly equal to eye, which goes 4 ! / 2 times in length 



