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(Makassar!, Bonthain, Bulukomba, Badjoa, Lagusi, Menado); 

 Ambon; Ceram; Obi; Batjan; Ternate; Halmahera; Waigeu; 

 New Guinea. - - From Red Sea and east-coast of Africa and 

 Madagascar, British India, Siam, China, Riu Kiu Islands, 

 Philippines, Australia to Fiji-Islands and New-Zealand. 

 In sea. 



7. Sphyraena langsar Blkr. 



Sphyraena langsar Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXVI. 18541857, Bijdr. Sphyrae- 

 noiden p. 19. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 367. 



Sphyraena langsar Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. 1860, p. 340. 



Sphyraena langsar Khmzinger, Sitzber. Akad. Wien 1 880, p. 374. 



Sphyraena langsar Evermann & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Washington XXVL 

 1906, p. 60. 



Sphyraena Sangsar Jordan & Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus. XL Nos. 3 4, 1917, p. 439. 



D 1 . V; D 2 . 1.89; A. 23.89; P. 2.12 2.13, vel 1.13; V. 1.5; 



6_ 

 L.I. 8287; L-tr. j_. 



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 Height 6.7 7 in length, 8 in length with caudal. Head 2.9 3, 



3.4 3.5 in length with caudal. Eye 4.9 5, 2.3 in snout, slightly 

 more than interorbital space and 1.5 1.6 in postorbital part of 

 head. Maxillaries not reaching to frontborder of eye, 2.6 2.8 in 

 head. Hindborder of praeoperculum gently emarginate, its pos- 

 terior angle rectangular and somewhat produced into a flexible 

 flap. Operculum without spines. Upper jaw with a series of 

 small, rather crowded pointed teeth and 2 canines on each 

 side in front, the foremost of which is the smaller. Lower jaw 

 with a series of more distant and larger vertical teeth and a 

 single small canine at symphysis. Palatines with a series of 

 small teeth and a few canines in front of them. A slight fleshy 

 knob at symphysis of lower jaw. Origin of dorsal above or 

 slightly behind vertical through tip of pectorals and behind 

 origin of ventrals. Second, or first and second dorsal spine the 

 longest, equal to postorbital part of head. Distance between 

 origin of first dorsal and snout more than distance between the 

 base of ventrals and end of base of anal. Distance between 

 two dorsals twice or somewhat less than twice length of base 

 of second dorsal. Anal and second dorsal emarginate. Origin 

 of anal slightly behind that of second dorsal. Pectorals some- 

 what longer than postorbital part of head. Ventrals somewhat 

 shorter than pectorals. Caudal forked. Colour of alcohol specimens 

 brownish above, silvery below. Fins yellowish. Length 305 mm. 



