tween gill-opening and caudal base, first branched ray 1 to 
1 2/5 in postocular. Anal inserted before dorsal origin, 
though much nearer ventral than caudal base, first branched 
ray about equals postocular region. Caudal with lower rays 
little longer, hind edge oblique townwards and fin 
2/3 in head from frontal process; pectoral 1 2/3 to 1 4/5; 
ventral 24 to 2 3/5, inserted about midwey between eye center 
and caudal base. 
Color in alcohol: faded brownish generally, sides and 
below with silvery reflections. Silvery streaks from shoul- 
der to caudal base, expands between 
equal to pectoral in diwth. Round blackish spot about 
of pupiltat base of upper median caudal rays. Length 
to 280 mm. (caudal damaged). Besides an example from Singa- 
pore in the Wilkes Collection we als ncelude 4 in the 
Academy from the Philippines. 
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4+ was proposed more than a decade before Tylosurus 
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recently proposed “two new genera as 
Belone krefftii Gunther, end Ekurycaulus, 
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ura Bennett, in both cases the species de 
Eurycaulus Ogilby, however, give way to the 
Fairm in 1868 for Coleoptera. 
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Platybelone Fowler, — 
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