1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1121 



coloured ; the rest shining silvery ; a black spot at the upper part of 

 the posterior margin of the opercle ; fins hyaline, marginal half of 

 dorsals and caudal minutely dotted with black. Iris silvery, upper 

 half of orbital margin black. 



D 8—1/21 or 22, C 1/|, A 3/25, 26 or 27, V 1/5, P 16, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula Singapore. 



Coromandel, Bay of Bengal, mouths of the Ganges, Mala- 

 bar, Java, Madura, 



Total length : 4f inch. 



The length of the head is \ of the total, measured to the centre of 

 the posterior margin of the caudal ; the diameter of the eye is 3| in 

 the length of the head. The greatest vertical diameter, in front of the 

 first dorsal, equals the length of the head. The lateral line follows at 

 the upper third of the body the outline of the back. The scales of 

 the lateral line and the body are rather large, orbicular, very thin and 

 deciduous. This species is excessively numerous at all seasons. It is 

 eaten both fresh and dried. 



Gen. Stromateus, (Artedi,) Linne. 1748. 



Ventral fins none ; dorsal single with the spines hid in the anterior 

 margin ; vertical fins covered with scales. 



Stromateus niger, Bloch. 



Stromateus paru, Bloch PI. 160. 



Stromateus niger, Bloch PI. 422. 



Stromateus paru, Linne : Syst. 1148. 



Stromateus paru, Shaw IV. p. 108, (Bloch PI. 160.) 



Stromateus niger, Shaw ibid. 111. 



Stromateus niger, Russell, p. 35, No. XLIII. Nalla Sandawah. 



Stromateus niger, S. paru, Cuv. R. A. II. 213 (*) 



Stromateus niger, Cuv, and Val. IX. 385. 



Stromateus niger, Cantor: Ann. and Mag. N. H. IX. 15. 



Stromateus niger, Richardson Rep. 1845, 272. 



Stromateus niger, Bleeker : Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 4. 



Bawar or Bawal tumbak of the Malays. 



Head above, back and sides dark greyish brown with blue reflec- 

 tions ; cheeks, opercles and abdomen silvery light bluish grey or pale 

 neutral tint ; dorsal and anal silvery bluish grey, blackish towards the 

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