FISH. (PART III). 



By B. L. Chaudhuri. 



This part contains a systematic treatment of the suborders Percesoces and 

 Plectognathi of the order Teleostei. The total number of specimens examined and 

 recorded is 373. They belong to twenty species. Of these one (Sphyraena raghava) 

 is new to science. The twenty species fall into nine genera and seven families. 



Suborder PEKCESOCES. 



Family SCOMBRESOCIDAE. 



Genus BE LONE, Cuvier 



Belone strongylura, Van Hasselt. 



1803. Esox sp. (Kuddera A.), Russell, Fish Vizag. II, p. 61, pi. clxxvi. 



1823. Belone strongylura, Van Hasselt, Alg. Konst. Letterbode, p. 131. 



1823. Belone strongylura, Id., Bull. Ferussac Zool., p. 374. 



1830. Belone caudimacula, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., p. 234. 



1846. Belone caudimacula, Cuvier and Vallenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVIII, p. 452. 



1846. Belone caudimacula, Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assc. Adv. Sc. (1845), p. 264. 



1849. Belone caudimacula, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1849), P- *228. 



1851. Belone caudimaculata, Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Se, p. 147. 



1853. Belone caudimacula, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXV, p. 72. 



1865. Belone caudimaculata, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 165. 



1866. Mastacembelus strongylurus, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsch. Dierk., Ill, p. 220. 

 1866. Belone strongylura, Günther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus., VI, p. 246. 



1866. Belone caudimaculata, Id., ibid., p. 245. 



1872. Mastacembelus strongylurus, Bleeker, Atl. Ich. Ind. Orient. Neerl., VI, p. 45, pi. eclvii, rig. 3. 



1878. Belone strongylurus, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 512, pi. cxviii, fig. 6. 



1889. Belone strongylura, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish., II, p. 421. 



1910. Belone strongylura, Jenkins, Rec. Ind. Mus., V, p. 131. 



1913. Belone strongylura, Weber, Fisch Siboga-Exped., p. 122. 



There are ten specimens in the collection, the largest of which measures 410 mm. 

 in length. It was collected at Parikud at the end of November, 191 4. The rest vary 

 from 224 mm. to 328 mm. in length and were collected at Satpara and Rambha Bay. 

 mostly during the latter part of July, 1913. The species does not breed in the lake 

 and appears to be only an occasional visitor to it. 



Distribution: — Coasts and estuaries from Bengal to China; East Indian Archi- 

 pelago and North Australia; in the river Brunai (Borneo) and in fresh water at 

 Aleppee (Malay Peninsula). 



