204 



toral filaments, the upper one of which is the longest, reach 

 a little beyond tip of ventrals. Ventrals longer than snout and 

 eye together. Distance between origin of ventrals and anal 

 much less than length of head. Scales finely striated and with 

 a crenulated hindborder. Colour of alcohol specimens silvery 

 or golden, fins yellowish or hyaline, pectorals slightly dusky. 

 Length 260 mm. [A specimen of BLEEKER'S collection seen 

 by us]. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Kuru (Malay); Kesumbang (Javanese) ; Sambal 

 (Madura); Idung lamak (Batjan). 



Habitat: Pulu Weh ! ; Sumatra (Kota Radjah !, Tiku) ; Nias ! ; 

 Java (Batavia, Prigi, Penandjong Bay!); Madura; Bali; Celebes 

 (Menado); Ambon; Ceram!; Batjan ; Timor; Aru Islands! ; New 

 Guinea. Coast of Natal and Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauri- 

 tius, British India, Siam, Pinang, Japan, Formosa, Philippines, 

 Australia, New Britain, Solomon-Islands, Samoa, Tahiti, 

 Fiji islands. 



In sea and brackish water. 



2. Polynemus microstoma Blkr. [Fig. 65, p. 201]. 



? Polynemus plebejus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1829^.380 



(partim ?). 



Polynemus plebdus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1009. 

 Polynemus microstoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 1851, p. 217. 

 Polynemus plebejus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. 1860, p. 329 (nee Brouss.). 

 Trichidion microstoma Bleeker, Arch. Neerl. Science Nat. XIII. 1878, p. 64. 

 Polynemus zophomus Jordan & Me Gregor, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXX. 1906, p. 814. 

 Polydactylus zophomus Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVI. (1906) 1907, p. II. 

 Polydactylus zophomus Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bureau Fish. XXVII. (1907) 



1908, p. 245. 



Polydactylus zophomus Scale, Philippine Journ. Sci. V. No. 4, 1910, p. 269. 

 Polynemus zophomus M. Weber, Siboga Exp. Fische 1913, p. 142. 



D 1 . VIII; D 2 . I. 1314; A. II III. 12 1 3 ; P. 2.13 + 5 ; V. 1.5; 



5-6 

 L.I. 47 50; L. tr. i . 



10 12 



Elongate. Height 33.2, 44.1 in length with caudal. Head 

 2 - 8 3> 3-64 in length with caudal. Eyes covered by a gela- 

 tinous membrane, 3.84, equal to interorbital space, and twice 

 in postorbital part of head. Snout shorter than eye, prominent. 

 Mouth large, reaching behind eye. Maxillaries scaly, 2.4 in 

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

 posterior nostrils close together, midway between end of snout 



