1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1003 



terior with thin spines, the posterior is long and little elevated. 

 Sillago malabarica, (Bloch. Schneider.) 



Scisena malabarica, Bl. Schn. PI. 19. 



Russell CXIII. Soring. 



Sillago malabarica, Cuv. R. A. II. 149. 



Sillago acuta, Cuv. and Val. III. 400. 



Sillago acuta, Bleeker : Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII. 25, 61, 4. 



" Ikan Ubi" of the Malays of Pinang. 



Head above pale reddish purple ; cheeks pale orange ; opercles 

 bluish silvery ; back pale greenish ; sides pale reddish silvery, with a 

 silvery longitudinal band beneath the lateral line ; abdomen mother-of- 

 pearl ; membrane of dorsal fins with some minute oblique black lines, 

 particularly near the anterior margin of the spines and rays, where 

 they in some form faint blackish vertical lines ; the rest of the fins 

 whitish or pale yellowish. Iris pale golden. 



D 10 or 11—1/21, C 17 V°> A 1/23, V 1/5, P 15, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 



Bay of Bengal, estuaries of the Ganges, Macao, Bantam, 

 Batavia, Tjilatjap, Samarang, Surabaya, Passuruan, 

 Bangkallang, Makassar, Celebes, Sumbawa. 



Total length, 1 foot. 



Although this species occurs at Pinang in numbers at all seasons, it 

 is never very plentiful. Sillago domina, Cuv. and Val. which is very 

 numerous at Pondicherry, Madras, and indeed as far north as the 

 mouths of the Ganges, appears to be unknown at Pinang and Singa- 

 pore. The length given of the present species is the greatest observed, 

 but M. Leschenault has seen single individuals upwards of three feet. 

 Gen. Uranoscopus, Gronov. 1754. 



Head large, depressed, rough ; eyes and mouth vertical ; lower part 

 of preopercle crenate ; shoulder with a strong spine ; branchiostegous 

 rays six ; dorsal fins two, or both united into one ; vent central. 

 Uranoscopus cognatus, Cantor. 



Head above and back pale brownish green, cheeks, sides and abdo- 

 men silvery, minutely dotted with black ; jaws blackish ; anterior 

 dorsal fin black, near the base clouded whitish ; posterior dorsal 

 whitish, minutely dotted with black between the branches, and along 

 the upper half of the rays ; caudal bright gamboge ; the membrane 



