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jaw rather the longer. Fins first dorsal spines weak, low, from 

 5 to | height of second dorsal, the anterior portion of which latter 

 is from | to if height of body. .Anal commences below the middle 

 of the soft dorsal. Caudal forked. Scales minute. Colour 

 bluish grey, with five black bands obliquely directed forwards from 

 the back down the body ; one or two similar but narrower bands 

 on the head. First dorsal fin black, second dorsal dark, becoming 

 black near its summit and with a white tip. Pectoral yellow. 

 Ventral and anal black, the latter with a white tip. Caudal yel- 

 lowish, the young having a black blotch in the last portion of each 

 caudal lobe. 



Hob. Red Sea, east coast of Africa, seas of India to the Malay 

 Archipelago and beyond. 



4. Genus SERIOLICHTHYS, Bleeker. 

 Syn. Decaptus, Poey. 



Branchiostegals seven. Body oblong, compressed; abdomen 

 rounded. Cleft of mouth of moderate depth. Preopercle slightly 

 crenulated or entire. Villiform teeth on the jaws, vomer, palatines, 

 and tongue. First dorsal fin continuous, the second and the anal 

 with many more rays, and each having one or two fiulets pos- 

 teriorly ; a pair of preanal spines remote from the rest of the fin 

 may be present or absent. Scales cycloid, small. Lateral line 

 unarmed. 



936. (1.) Seriolichthys bipimmlatus. (Fig. 58.) 



Seriola bipinnulata, Quoy $ Gaim. Voy. Uranie et Phys. Zool. i, 



p. 363, pi. 61, fig. 3. 

 Seriolichthys bipinnulatus, Bleeker, Batavia Nat. Tijdsch. vi p. 196 ; 



Day, Fish. India, p. 228, pi. li A, tig. 1, Sujjpl. p. 789 (see synon.). 



Kulul and Poonkolal, Tarn. 



D.5 | 1/24-25 + i. P.21. A.0-2 | 1-2/16-17+i. L.1.95. L.tr.16/28. 

 Length of head 5, height of body 5 in the total length. Eyes 



Fig. 58. Seriolichthys bipinnulatus. 

 diameter 4 in length of head, 1 \ diam. from end of snout and also 



