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Saurida gracilis (Quoy and Gaimard).

Saurus gracilis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1824, p. 224. Hawaiian Islands; Mauritius.

Saurida nebulosa Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam (fifth article), vol. 18, 1879, p. 3 (China).

Depth 5% to 73; head 4 to 6; snout 4 to 4 in head; eye 4 to 56, with narow adipose lids; premaxillary 11⁄2 to 13/5; interorbital 4% to 6. Scales 48 to 52 in lateral line, 4 above, 5 or 6 below, 18 predorsal. Dorsal rays 11; anal 11 to 12; pectoral 12 or 13 and fin shorter than postorbital. Brown above, silvery white below, with usually 4 or 5 dark cross blotches on back. Fins with brown spots as transverse bands. Reaches 300 mm.

China. (Red Sea, East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, East Indies, Philippines, Riu Kiu, Melanesia*, Micronesia*, Hawaii*).

Saurida eso Jordan and Herre. Figure 6.

Suurida eso Jordan and Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, 1907, p. 520, fig. 1. Wakanoura, Kobe, Tsuruga.-Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 1925, p. 155 (Hong Kong).

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Depth 6 to 94; head 3 4/5 to 4%; snout 4 to 5 in head, eye 334

to 5, 1% in snout, equals interorbital; premaxillary 1 2/5 to 22/5 in head. Scales 45 to 49 in lateral line, 4 above, 5 below, 21? predorsal. Dorsal rays 11 to 13; anal 11 or 12; pectoral 12 or fin 1 2/5 in head, slightly less than cyc and postocular length. Dull brown above, mottled darker on back, sides and below whitish. Dorsal, caudal and pectoral dusky or grayish, other fins whitish. Pectoral brown. Reaches 260 mm.

Hong Kong Melanesia).

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(Natal*, Malacca, East Indies, Formosa*, Australia?

HARPADON Le Sueur. Bombay Ducks.

Harpadon Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1825, p. 51. Type Salmo microps Le Sueur, orthotypic.

Body elongate, compressed. Snout short. Eyes very small, far for- ward. Mouth cleft deep, edge of upper jaw formed by premaxillarics, which thin and tapering; no maxillaries. Teeth cardiform, recurved, unequal, depressible, largest in jaws more or less barbed. Gill opening wide, mem- branes free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 23 to 25. Skeleton well ossified. No air bladder. Intestinal canal short. Pyloric cacca 16. Scales thin, deciduous, not on anterior part of body. Dorsal short, premcdian. Adipose fin small. Anal moderate or long. Caudal forked or trilobate. fins moderate or long.

Species few.

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Figure 6. Saurida eso Jordan and Herre,

Depth 7 to 738; head 45/6 to 5; snout 31⁄2 in head; eye 45/6 to 5, with broad adipose lids; premaxillary 11⁄2. Scales 63 in lateral line, 5 above, 7 below. Dorsal rays 11; anal 10; pectoral 14 or fin 15/7 in head, equals postocular and eye-diameter. Dusky brown above lateral line, some scales with pale centers. Below more or less abruptly pale yellowish to silvery white. Dorsal, caudal and pectoral tipped with dusky. Anal and ventral yellowish. Reaches 338 mm.

China, Hong Kong.—(Japan*).

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Although Chu has credited this species to * Amoy (Wu 1929) ” I fail to locate it.

Saurida grandisquamis Günther,

Saurida grandisquamis Günther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 1864, P. 400. Australia? Louisade Archipelago.--Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 603 (Hong Kong).

The Hong Kong Naturalist.

Figure 7. Harpadon nehercus (Buchanan-Hamilton).

Harpadon nehereus (Buchanan-Hamilton). Figure 7.

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Kow too (a dog vomiting), Kow tza (dog's guts), Kau to u. Osmerus nehereus Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, 1822, pp.

209, 380. Ganges mouths.

Saurus nehereus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 301 (Sea of China, Chusan, Woosung, Canton).

December 1932.