268 SEALE. 



snout 3.1; width of exposed upper jaw equal to its length; origin of 

 anal midway between end of caudal vertebra and origin of ventrals, being 

 below fiftli dorsal ray; length of ventrals 2.50 in head; length of 

 pectorals 2.50 in head; caudal truncate, its length equal to distance 

 from posterior end of upper jaw to end of opercle; body covered with 

 smooth deciduous scales. 



Color yellowish with a silver stripe along side which is bordered above 

 with dark green. A dusky wash on dorsal and caudal, the anal with a 

 distinct dusky blotch anteriorily. 



Type, No. 2()79 in the collection of the Bureau of Science, from 

 Sandakan, Borneo. Length, 150 millimeters. 



Family ATHEEINID/E. Silversides. 



Atherina forskalii Rupp- 



Head 3.50; depth 4; eye 2.30 in head; interorbital about equal to eye; 

 dorsal V— 10; anal J, 12; scales 39 in lateral series from enlarged scale 

 above opercle. 



Common in Borneo and the Philippines. 



Family MUGILID^E. Mullets. 

 Mugil belanak Bleeker. 



One specimen collected agTees with Bleeker's ■* description and figure. 



Color yellowish with a slight brownish wash above ; scales with slightly 

 darker centers, giving an indistinctly striped appearance; adipose eyelid 

 moderately developed; tip of maxillary exposed. Origin of spinous 

 dorsal about midway between tip of snout and end of caudal vertebra ; 

 origin of ventrals midway between origin of anal and notch of preorbital ; 

 origin of anal very sligthly in advance of origin of dorsal. No. 3481 ; 

 length, 175 millimeters. 



An important food-fish of Borneo ; not reported from the Philippines. 

 Liza cseruleomaculatus (LacepSde). 



Color silvery, slightly bluish above; a black spot at upper a.xil of 

 pectorals; scales 38. Nos. 2559 and 2602; length, 120 millimeters. 



A common and valuable food- fish of Borneo; also recorded from the 

 Philippines. 



Family SPHYEvENID.E. Barracudas. 



SphyrsEna toxeusa Forster. , 



Head 3.30; depth G.50; eye 5.50; interorbital 4.75; scales 115. 

 Dnsky above ; white below ; all the fins more or less stained with gray. 

 No. 2736 ; length, 440 millimeters. 



A valuable food-fish of Borneo; not yet recorded from the Philippines. 



■■ Java, 4, 337. 



