2.2 2.6 in distance between two dorsals. Origin of anal below 

 fourth ray of second dorsal. Pectorals somewhat longer than 

 postorbital part of head. Ventrals shorter than pectorals. Caudal 

 forked. Colour of alcohol specimens brownish above, silvery 

 below. Length 475 mm. [Specimens of BLEEKER'S collection 

 in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Senuk (Batavia). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Padang, Benkulen) ; Java (Batavia, Cheri- 

 boh!); Bali; Timor; Borneo (Sandakan) ; Celebes (Makassar, 

 Menado); Sangir-Islands; Ambon; New Guinea. -- Calcutta, 

 Formosa, Fiji-Islands. 



In sea. 



4. Sphyraena picuda Bl. Schn. 



Sphyraena sphyraena Forskal, Descr. Animalium 1775, p. 16 (nee L.). 



Sphyraena sphyraena vox. picuda Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. no. 



Sphyraena barracuda Cuvisr & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1829^,343. 



Sphyraena Comnursonii Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 352. 



Sphyraena Dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. VII. 1831, p. 508. 



Sphyraena again Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische 1835, p. 99. 



Sphyraena Commersonii Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. (1848) 1849, Bijdr. 



Percoiden p. 55; Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 425; Verh. Bat. 



Gen. XXVI. 1854 1857, Bijdr. Sphyraenoiden, p. 15. 

 Sphyraena picuda Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. 1860. p. 336. 

 Sphyraena Commersoni Giinther, ibid. p. 338. 

 ? Sphyraena dussumieri Giinther, ibid. p. 339. 

 Sphyraena agam Gunther, ibid. p. 341. 



Sphyraena Commersoni Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1865, p. 265. 

 Sphyraena again Klunzinger, Abh. zool. bot. Gesellsch." Wien Bd. XX. 1870, 



p. 822; Fische des Rothen Meeres I. 1884, 4, p. 129. 

 Sphyraena commersoni Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 343. 

 Sphyraena picuda Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North & Middle America, part I. 



1896, p. 823. 



Sphyraena snodgrassi Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XIX. (1899) 1901^.388. 

 Sphyraena snodgrassi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia LV. 1904, p. 749. 

 Sphyraena snodgrassi Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. 142. 



Sphyraena commersoni Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 1908^.245. 

 Sphyraena picuda M. Weber & de Beaufort. Zool. Mededeel. VI. Leiden 1921, p. 70. 



13 

 D 1 . V; D 2 . 2 8; A. 2.7; P. 13; V. 1.5; L.l. + So; L.tr.j^. 



M 

 Height 5.87.2, 7.1 8.6 in length with caudal. Head 2.8 3, 



3.4 3.7 in length with caudal. Eye 66.4, 2 *4 2 -8 in snout, 

 somewhat less than interorbital space, more than twice in 

 postorbital part of head. Maxillary reaching nearly or quite 

 below frontborder of eye, 2.2 2.4 in head. Angle of prae- 



