Back and upper surface of head brown, sides and lower 
surfaces silvery white. Iris white. Fins all more or less brownish, 
lower ones pajer. 
Red Sea, Mauritius, East Indies, Philippines, Melanesia, 
Polynesia. The two examples listed below are interesting in 
establishing identification with the figure of Valenciennes. The 
robust head and erect teeth are in agreement as well as the position 
of the fins, except the ventral. The right only is shown and what 
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appears to me too greatly advanced, for it would seem to reach half 
way to the vent. My specimens also show much longer dorsal and anal 
fin lobes anteriorly. Their pectorals also are not tipped with dusky. 
It follows that the synonymy as given by Weber and Beaufort is there¬ 
fore largely irrelevant and should fall with their Tylosurus melanotus. 
4619. Port Binanga, Subig Bay. January 8, 1908. Length 
621 mm. 
5120. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 4, 1908. Length 577 
mm. 
ura punctulata (Glint her) 
Belone punctulata GUNTHER, Proc. Sool. Soc. London, 1871, 
p. 670 (type locality: Manado, Celebes). 
Tylosurus punctulatus WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo- 
Austral. Archipel., vol. 4, p. 129, fig. 48, 1922 (Balik- 
papan, Borneo). 
