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to see this species and considered it very inferior to the " black" 

 {Stromateus niger, Bloch) or "white pom/ret" by which latter Rus- 

 sell means Stromateus argenteus, Bloch. (Russell p. 34.) 



Stromateus argenteus, Bloch. 



Stromateus argenteus, Bloch, PI. 421. 



Stromateus argenteus, Shaw IV. 110. 



Stromateus argenteus, Russell p. 31, 35, No. XLII. Telia Sandawa. 



Stromateus candidus, Cuv. R. A. II. 213 ( 2 ) 



Stromateus candidus, Cuv. and Val. IX. 391. 



Stromateus argenteus, Cuv, and Val. IX. 393. 



Stromateus securifer, Cuv. and Val. IX. 394, PL 273 (Young.) 



Stromateus candidus, Belanger, 369, PI. II. Fig. 2. 



Stromateus securifer, Cantor Ann. Nat. Hist. IX. 15. 



Stromateus securifer, Richardson Report 1845, 273. 



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



Head above back and sides to the lateral line neutral tint with pur- 

 ple reflections ; sides of the head and body beneath the lateral line 

 silvery grey, everywhere with minute black dots, disposed on the sides 

 of the occiput, and the upper half of the body so as to produce alternate 

 indistinct, blackish and silvery grey-undulating, irregular lines ; on 

 the upper part of the opercle an irregular black spot ; abdomen silvery 

 white ; dorsal and anal silvery, minutely dotted with black so as to 

 render the point and marginal half blackish ; caudal and pectorals yel- 

 lowish white, minutely dotted with black so as to make the posterior 

 half and the margins blackish ; cavity of the mouth and tongue as in 

 S. sinensis. Iris silvery, minutely dotted with black. 



D 9—1/39 to 43, C 17|, A 6—1/34 to 38, P. 25, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Sea of Malayan Peninsula and Islands, 



Malabar, Coromandel, Bay of Bengal, Macao, Chusan, 



Java, Madura. 



Total length : 9 inch. 



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

 the posterior margin of the caudal. The diameter of the eye is 2>\ in 

 the length of the head. The muzzle is a rounded protuberance which 

 considerably projects beyond the mouth. Both jaws have a single 

 close series of excessively minute teeth. The naked skin of the upper 



