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 i. Belone (Eurycaulus) platyura Benn. 



Belone platyura Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, 1830, p. 168. 

 Belone platttra RUppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 18351840, p. 73- 

 Belone carmata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846^.437. 

 Belone platura Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857, Achtste Bijdr. Am- 



boina, p. 85. 



Belone platura Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866, p. 237. 

 Mastaccmbelus platurus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 234. - 



Atl. ichth. VI. 1866-1872, p. 50. 



Belone platura Klunzinger, Abh. Zool. bot. Gesellsch. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 577. 

 Belone platura Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wien LXX. 1900, p. 512. 

 Belone platura Gunther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 349. 



D. 2.1314; A. 2.15 19; P. I. ii; V. 1.5; L.I. about 150. 



Depressed, pentagonal in crosssection, the height twice in 

 the breadth of the body. Height 18 19, about 22 in length 

 with caudal. Head 2 3 / 4 , 3 in length with caudal. Eye .iV 2 i 2 /a 

 in postorbital part of head, equal to interorbital space and 4 

 times in snout. Head flat above, striated, with a broad, very 

 shallow, scaly median groove; supraorbital region striated. 

 Operculum scaly. Maxillary entirely hidden by praeorbital. 

 Canines weak, short, vertical or subvertical. Height of mandible 

 below eye 4 times in eye. Tongue smooth. Pectorals conspi- 

 cuously longer than postorbital part of head. Ventrals almost 

 twice in length of pectorals. Base of ventrals midway between 

 base of caudal and eye or a little nearer to base of caudal 

 [according to KLUNZINGER midway between hindmargin of 

 operculum and base of caudal]. Origin of dorsal before that 

 of anal, separated by about 90 scales from occiput. The middle 

 and hinder dorsal and anal rays subequal in length, shorter 

 than the anterior ones. Caudal peduncle very strongly depressed, 

 with a sharp lateral keel above the lateral line. Caudal forked. 

 Uarkgreen above, silvery below. Fins more or less yellowish 

 at their base. Length 500 mm. [After BLEEKER, KLUNZINGER 

 and GUNTHER, not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore; Ambon. Red Sea, Mauritius, Pelew 

 Islands, Guam, Fiji Islands, Funafuti, Samoa Islands, Sand- 

 wich Islands. 



2. Belone (Eurycaulus) persimilis Gthr. [Fig. 46, p. 117]. 



Belong platyura Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 122. (nee BENNETT). 

 Belone persimilis Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 349. 



