Tachysurus maculetus (Thunberg). 
Head 3 2/5; depth 53; D. I, 7; A. v, 14; snout 2 5/6 
in heed; eye 5 4/5; maxillary 4; interorbital 2 1/3. 
Body elongate, well compressed. Caudal peduncle well 
compressed, least depth half its length or 4 in head. Head 
width 1 2/5 its length. Snout wide, well depressed, length 
about 2/3 its width. Eye moderately supero-lateral, 2 1/8 
in snout, hind edge about midway in head length. Mouth wide, 
short gape to hind nostril, latter about first third in sn- 
out. Upper jaw well protruded. Teeth in jaws finely lanceol- 
ate, in bands, upper band much wider, especially behind, 
while lower much narrower behind. Small elongate patch of 
rather obtuse teeth on each palatin, well separated. Maxil- 
lary barbel to end of humeral process or sbout first 2/5. ef 
depressed pectoral spine; outer mental slightly beyond mid- 
dle of humeral process; inner mental about 7/8 to gill-open- 
ing. Interorbital slightly eleveted, flattened medially, 
antero-supraorbital very small knob. Cranial bones rugose 
striate. Narrow fontanel begins close be id eye and not 
quite reaching supraoccipital. Gill-rakers 8 - 14, lanceolate, 
nearly long as filaments or about 13 in eye. Fin spines 
with bony tubercles basally and antrorse serree terminally; 
dorsal spine 12 in head; pectoral 1 3/5. First dorsal origin 
midwey between snout tip and adipose fin origin, depr ssed 
fin l¢ 
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to latter. Adipose fin long as snout, inserted about 
an eye-diameter nearer depressed dorsal spine tip then caudal 
bese. Anal inserted about midway between pectoral tip and 
caudel base, first branched rays longest and depress back 
