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rest of head and body shining silvery ; muzzle and upper lip minutely 

 dotted with black, the cheeks with pale blue ; palate, floor of the mouth 

 and internal surface of branchiostegous membrane minutely dotted with 

 black ; dorsal and anal spines pale steel blue ; fin-membranes hyaline ; 

 dorsal between the second and sixth spine minutely dotted with black, 

 superior margin black ; posterior half of caudal minutely dotted with 

 black. Iris silvery, orbital margin black. 



D 8/16, C 17|, A 3/14, V 1/5, P 16 or 17, Br. V. 



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

 Massaua (Red Sea.) 



Total length : 4 inch. 



The length of the head is 3^ in the total to the centre of the poste- 

 rior margin of the caudal ; with the mouth protracted it is ^. The 

 diameter of the eye is ^ of the length of the head. Above the anterior 

 part of the orbit appear two minute spines, and behind them the whole 

 of the upper margin of the orbit is very finely toothed. The greatest 

 vertical diameter of the body, in front of the dorsal fin, slightly exceeds 

 2\ in the total length. The second dorsal spine is 2\ in the greatest 

 vertical diameter ; the second anal is f of the length of the second dor- 

 sal ; third anal is but slightly shorter than the second. The superior 

 branchiostegous ray is closely adhering to the gill-cover ; the inferior, 

 (the fifth,) is farther removed from the fourth than the other four are 

 among themselves. In the Straits of Malacca this species is very 

 numerous at all seasons, and forms like the rest an article of food. 

 Gen. Mene, Lacepede 1803. 



Mouth like that of Equula, but body more compressed ; margin of 

 abdomen trenchant, very convex owing to the development of the sca- 

 pular and pelvic bones, throwing the ventrals farther back than the 

 pectorals ; profile of the back nearly horizontal. 



Mene maculata, (Bloch-Schneider.) 



Zeus maculatus, Bloch-Schneider, 4/9, 480, PL 14, Fig. 2. 



Mene anne-caroline, Lacep. V. 95, No. 6, PL 22. 



Russell LX. Ambata Kuttee. 



Mene maculata, Cuv. and VaL X. 104, PL 285. 



Mene maculata, Swainson II. 251. 



Mene maculata, Temm. Schl. Fauna Japon. Pise. 127, PL LXVII. 



Fig. 3. 

 Mene maculata, Richardson, Report 1845, 276. 



