203 



Polyntmus plebejus Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 179. 

 Polynemus plebejus Steindachner, Ann. Hofmuseum Wien XI. 1896, p. 208. 

 Polydactylus plebeius Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bureau Fisheries XXV. (1905) 



1906, p. 219. 



Polydactylus agonasi Jordan & Me Gregor, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXX. 1906, p. 814. 

 Polydactylus plebeius Scale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Pauahi Mus. IV. 1906, p. 18. 

 Polydactylus plebejus Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wien, CXV, 1906, p. 1417. 

 Polydactylus plebeius Scale & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXIII. 1908, p. 241 



(salve syn.). 

 Polynemus taeniatus Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus. VI (part 2), 



1908, p. 179. 

 Polynemus agonasi Franz. Abh. Bayr. Akad. Munchen, IV. Suppl. Band I. Abh. 1910 



(1911), p. 25. 

 Polynemus plebejus Weber, Siboga Exp. Fische 1913, p. 144. 



D 1 . VIII; D 2 . I. I 3 ; A. II. II; P. 1718+5; V. I. 5; L.I. 6065; 

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L.tr.jT. 



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Elongate. Height 3.2 3.3, 4.4 4.5 in length with caudal. 

 Head 3 3.6, 4.2 4.5 in length with caudal. Eyes covered by 

 a gelatinous membrane, 3.5 4 in head, about equal to interorbital 

 space, more than twice in postorbital part of head. Snout 

 short, 1.4 1.7 in eye, prominent, the mouth beginning at a 

 distance equal to 3 / 4 diameter of eye behind point of snout. 

 Mouth large, reaching far behind eye. Maxillaries scaly, 2 2.3 

 in head. Head covered with scales to tip of snout. Anterior 

 and posterior nostrils close together, midway between end of 

 snout and eye. Praeoperculum coarsely serrated along its hind- 

 border, its angle produced and rounded. Upper lip absent, 

 lower lip well developed but not continuous at symphysis. 

 Upper and lower jaw with a narrow villiform band of small 

 teeth, not extending on outside of jaws. Broader similar bands 

 on palatines and a patch of teeth on head of vomer. Origin of 

 first dorsal between that of pectorals and ventrals. First dorsal 

 spine very small, second one the strongest, but shorter than 

 the following ones and slightly shorter or longer than post- 

 orbital part of head. Origin of second dorsal conspicuously in 

 advance of that of anal, its spine shorter than second spine 

 of first dorsal, but longer than that of anal. First anal spine 

 minute. Second dorsal and anal deeply concave. Dorsals, anal 

 and caudal scaly. Caudal deeply forked, the lobes pointed, 

 the upper one the longer. Pectorals somewhat falciform, as 

 long as or a little shorter than distance between middle of 

 eye and hindborder of operculum. All rays simple. The pec- 



