Brownish, lower surfaces little paler and with 
silvery tints. Under lens back seen sprinked with fine 
dark dots. Iris and sides of head silvery white. 
Obscure gray line axial along side, borders very narrow 
silvery white band on side of tail between dorsal and 
anal, where wide as pupil. Top of head, snout and beak 
brownish. Dorsal and caudal tinted with brownish 
terminally, other fins more or less whitish. 
India, Burma, Malaya, Siam, East Indies, China, 
t 
Formosa, North Australia, Although Zenarchopterus 
hendersoni Fowler is likely a synonym as Mohr doubtfully 
suggests the original label still clearly shows ’’Japan” 
as the locality. Possibly it may have been obtained 
somewhere in the East Indies? 
Zenarchopterus clarus Mohr based on two females 
150 to 165 mm, is likely this species. It is described 
with upper jaw twice as long as broad, D. 13 or 14, A. 11 
it. N, S. P,, no, 7584. "Japan”. Dr. A, A. Henderson, 
Length 142 mm. Type of Zenarchopterus hendersoni, 
A, N, 3. P., no. 55972, Boram, British North Borneo. 
1898. Dr. W. H. Furness 3 rd, Wistar Institute of 
Anatomy. Length 140 mm. to end of broken beak. 
