1228 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, [Nov. 



Belone caudimacula, Cuvier. 



Russell, CLXXVI. Kuddera, A. 



Belone caudimacula, Cuv. R. A. II. 285 (*). 



Belone caudimacula, Cuv. and Val. XVIII. 452. 



Belone caudimacula, Bleeker : Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 5. 



Toda of the Malays. 



Head above and back yellowish green minutely dotted with brown ; 

 lighter, silvery on the sides ; posterior half of the latter with a deep- 

 blue longitudinal band, bordered beneath by a broader shining silvery 

 one ; abdomen white ; sides of mandibles, cheeks and opercles silvery ; 

 dorsal, and in some the anal bright yellow, minutely dotted with brown 

 along the rays ; caudal yellow or greenish, minutely dotted with black, 

 with a rounded bluish black spot in the centre near the root ; ventrals 

 and pectorals hyaline, the latter in some with a black spot along the 

 root. Iris silvery, orbital margin bluish black. 



D 13, C 15f, A 16, V 6, P 10, Br. XII? 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Bombay, Aleppee (in fresh water), Coromandel, Gangetic 

 estuaries, Rangoon, Canton, River Brunai (Borneo), Port 

 Essington, North Australia. 



Total length : 1 ft. 1 inch. 



In an individual of the length given the head was contained 2f 

 times in the total length. The vertical diameter at occiput was i of 

 the length of the head. The horizontal diameter of the eye was 10£ 

 of the length of the head, measured from the symphysis of the lower 

 mandible, and J of the distance from the anterior margin of the orbit. 

 The abdominal crest becomes most distinct on the tail. The internal 

 series of long sharp teeth appear proportionally shorter in this than in 

 the preceding species. The tongue is smooth. On the inside of the 

 lower mandible is a bony, grated ridge like that of the preceding spe- 

 cies, and Belone cancila (Buchan. Ham.) is provided with a similar. 

 Single individuals, all of nearly equal length, occur at Pinang at all 

 seasons. They are eaten by the natives. 



Gen. Hemiramphus, Cuvier, 1817. 



Upper jaw very short, formed by the intermaxillaries ; symphysis of 

 lower jaw extended into a long point, behind which on the margins of 



