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STROMATEIDiE. (Butterfishes) 



Stromateus niger Bloch. (Black pomfret, hak chong.) 



The dorsal and anal rays are elongate and extend to a line 

 with base of caudal; the ventrals extend to origin of anal. In 

 specimens 10 centimeters in length, the ventrals and dorsal are 

 considerably shorter and there is but a slight trace of a keel on 

 the caudal peduncle. The very young are marked with indistinct 

 dusky bands, and there is a dusky spot at the base of each lobe 

 of caudal. (5405, 6289, 6291, 6299, 6315, 6317, 6318.) 



Stromateus argenteus Bloch. (White pomfret, pak chong.) 



Young. — No ventrals; no spines before dorsal or anal, the 

 lobe of caudal not elongate, color white. (6311, 6312, 6320.) 



EQUULIDiE. (Slip mouths) 



Equula insidiator (Bloch). 



Length, 90 to 107 millimeters. Ten specimens. (6575, 6586, 

 6621, 6636, 6638, 6639, 6642, 6657, 6663, 6672.) 



Equula ruconia (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



One specimen, length, 56 millimeters. (6676.) 

 Leiognathus edwardsi Evermann and Seale. 



Length, 60 to 170 millimeters. (6558, 6582, 6601, 6631, 6632, 

 6637, 6658, 6669, 6670.) 



Leiognathus virgatus Fowler. 



Length, 60 to 67 millimeters. (6551, 6584, 6645, 6655, 6673.) 

 Leiognathus daura (Cuvier). 



Tip of snout and a portion of nape, dark. Length, 90 to 95 

 millimeters. (6565, 6599, 6662, 7394.) 



APOGONICHTHYID^E. (Cardinal fishes) 



Amia elizabethse Jordan and Seale. 

 Length, 42 millimeters. (6335.) 



Amia bifasciata (Ruppell). (Yang sun ko.) 

 Amia trimaculatus Richardson. 

 Yellowish with a dusky vertical strip from the origin of 

 spinous dorsal downward, another from the anterior portion of 

 soft dorsal; a round spot at base of caudal; ventrals dusky; 

 dorsal, caudal, and anal grayish. (6287, 6288, 6295, 6307, 

 6308.) 



