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snout and extending well beyond the origin of the ventral. 

 Ventral inserted below the origin of the spinous dorsal and 

 midway between the tip of the mandible and the middle of 

 the anal, its length 1.45 in the snout. 



No elongate gill-raker. 



Above purple, each of the scales with a light centre; sides 

 silvery, crossed by fourteen vertical purple bars, the first behind 

 the tip of the pectoral, the last above the end of the anal; 

 lower surface pearly white; dorsal fins blackish; caudal grayish 

 brown, darkest above; anal, ventrals, and pectorals gray, the 

 anterior rays of the former and the outer rays of the two 

 latter dusky. Total length 405 mm." [Description from a single 

 specimen after J. DOUGLAS OGILBY, not seen by us], 



Habitat: Aru Islands. 



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3. Sphyraena forsteri C.V. 



Sphyracna forsteri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1829, p. 353 ; 



VII. 1831, p. 509. 

 Sphyraena forsteri? Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXVI. 1854 1857, Sphyraen. 



p. 13; Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 424. 

 Sphyraena forsteri Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. 1860, p. 337. 

 Sphyraena Forsteri Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wien Bd. 78, I. Abt. (1878) 



1879, P- 382. 



Sphyraena forsteri Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXV. 1902^.333. 

 Sphyraena toxeuma Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2) XII. 1904, p. 502- 

 Sphyraena forsteri Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comparat. Zool. Har- 

 vard Coll. XXVI. No. 7, 1911, p. 262. 



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D 1 . V ; D 2 . I. 9; A. II. 8 ; P. 1.13 ; V. 1.5 ; L.I. I IO I2O; L.tr. J_. 



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Height 6.4 7, 7.6 8.3 in length with caudal. Head 3, 3.6 

 in length with caudal. Eye 4.5 4.7, twice in snout, somewhat 

 more than interorbital space, 1.3 1.4 in postorbital part of 

 head. Maxillary reaching about to vertical through frontborder 

 of eye, 2.3 2.4 in head. Angle of praeoperculum rounded. 

 Operculum with a flexible spine. A series of small teeth, with 

 two canines in front, in the upper jaw. On the palatines 4 7 

 canines, followed by smaller ones. Teeth in the lower jaw 

 directed slightly backwards; in a single series, distant, increasing 

 in size posteriorly. Rasplike teeth on tongue. Origin of first 

 dorsal above tip of pectorals and somewhat behind origin of 

 ventrals. Second spine of first dorsal longest, shorter or much 

 shorter than postorbital part of head. Base of second dorsal 



