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anterior ones. Origin of dorsal above second divided ray of 

 anal, separated by 12 scales from lateral line. Caudal slightly 

 emarginate. Colour in alcohol brownish above, lighter below 

 with an indistinct silvery lateral band. Length 600 mm. 



Habitat: Singapore; Java (Batavia!); ? Borneo; Biliton; 

 Celebes (Makassar!); Banda; Halmahera; Timor ; Island Biaru !; 

 New Guinea. - - Indian Ocean (C.V.), Philippines, Admiralty 

 Islands, Pelew Islands, Ponape, Ruk, Samoa. 



6. Tylosurus annulatus (C. V.) 



Belonc annulata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846^.447. 

 Belong gigantea Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poissons II, 1847, p. 245. 

 Belone melanurus Bleeker, Verhand. Bat. Genootsch. XXII. 1849. Bijdr. Ichth. 



Madura p. n. 



Belone timucoides Bleeker, Journ. Ind. Arch. III. 1849, p. 67 & 68. 

 Belone annulata Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1226. 

 Belonc cylindrica Bleeker, Verhand. Bat. Genootsch. XXIV. Snoekacht. Visschen, 



1852, p. 13. 



Belone gigantea Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. III. 1858. Japan p. 21. 

 Mastaccmbelns giganteus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 236. 

 Belone cylindrica Kner, Fische Novara Exp. I. 1865 1867. p. 321. 

 Mastacembelus choram Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 277 (nee 



RUPPELL). 



Mastacembelus annulatus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. III. 1866, p. 229. 

 Belone annulata Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VI. 1866 1872, p. 240 (nee syn.). 

 Mastacembelus annulatus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. VI. 1866 1872, p. 48. 

 Belone annulata Day, Fishes of India 4, 18781888, p. 510. 

 Tylosurus giganteus Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S.,Nat. Mus. XXVI. 1903, p. 529. 

 Tylosurus giganteus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 124. 

 Belone gigantea Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 350. 



D. 2.2022; A. 2.l8 2.2O; P. 1. 12 14; V. 1.5; L.I. circa 350. 



Moderately compressed, the breadth of the body going 

 1.2 1.4 in the height. Free portion of the tail more or less 

 tetrahedral, higher than broad. Height 1517, 16 20 in length 

 with caudal. Head 3.1 3.3, 3.5 3.7 in length with caudal. 

 Eye 2.1 2.5 in postorbital part of head, I 1.3 in interorbital 

 space and 5.5 to nearly 7 in snout. Height of mandible below 

 pupil about equal to half (greatest) diameter of eye. Upper 

 surface of head flat with a very broad shallow median groove. 

 A narrow stripe in the middle, widening anteriorly to an 

 oblong patch, is scaly. Sides of groove with deep furrows and 

 well developed ridges. Supraorbital region with very numerous 

 feeble striae, but so feebly developed that the bone is almost 



