1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1011 



POLYNEMUS INDICUS, SliaW. 



Russell CLXXXIV. Maga Booshee. 



Polynemus indicus, Shaw, V., 155. 



Polynemus sele, Buchanan, 226, 381. 



Polynemus uronemus, Cuv. and Val. III. 385. 



Polynemus indicus, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish, II. 234. 



Polynemus sele, McClelland, Joarn. As. Soc. Vol. VIII. p. 203, Plate. 



Polynemus sele, Cantor, Proc. Zool. Soc. Pt. VII. 



Polynemus sele, McClelland, "I Cal. Journ. N. II. Vol. II. p. 



Polynemus ploteus, McClelland, J 450. 



Polynemus plebeius, McClelland, ^ 



Polynemus sele, McClelland, 1 Ibid Vol. III. pp. 1/9, 181, 



Polynemus lineatus, McClelland, [ PI. VI. 



Polynemus gelatinosus, McClelland, J 



Polynemus uronemus, Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII. 25, 58. 



Ikan Kiirow of the Malays. 



Head above dark bluish, or greyish, lighter greyish on the sides ; 

 abdomen white ; opercle bluish silvery with a blackish spot on the 

 upper half; the body everywhere more or less densely dotted with 

 black ; pectorals black, the other fins greyish or bluish white, dotted 

 with black, often so densely as to give the dorsals, ventrals, the anal 

 and the caudal a blackish appearance ; the filaments of the caudal 

 lobes black ; the anterior half of the pectoral filaments white, the 

 posterior blackish. Irish silvery. 



D 8—1/13 or 14, C 17y, A 3/11 or 12, V 1/5, P 13 or 14, Fila- 

 ments 5, Br. VII. 



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



Pondicherry, Madras, Vizagapatam, estuaries of the Ganges, 



Surabaya. 



Total length : 3 feet. 



The length of the head is contained about 3J times in that of the 

 body, measured from the muzzle to the centre of the caudal margin. 

 The horizontal diameter of the eye is about \ of the length of the 

 head. The ascending margin of the preopercle is more strongly 

 toothed than in P. plebeius, the lowest tooth being the longest. The 

 anterior dorsal commences behind the termination of the opercle, 

 opposite the second half of the pectoral fin, the extent of its base 



