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along body edges and caudal base. Few small scales on soft dorsal 

 and anal basally, also pectoral. Cheek with 5 rows of scales. L.l. 

 concurrent with back and body scales in nearly parallel rows. Tubes 

 small, simple, greatly exposed. Fourth dorsal spine If in head, 

 fin edge deeply notched. Soft dorsal small, well back, first ray 2| 

 in head. Second anal spine usually longest, 2 in head, though third 

 often subequal. Caudal very slightly emarginate behind, 1 j in head. 

 Pectoral rounded, If in head. Ventral If in head, spine If in fin. 

 Color in alcohol pale olive brownish above, each row of scales with 

 slightly darker line. Spinous dorsal edge dusky, also soft dorsal, 

 anal and caudal tinted with dusky, other fins pale. Iris pale slaty. 

 Length 116 to 140 mm. PhiUppine Islands. 



A very large series of individuals in the present collection, and 

 they cover the discrepancies found in the accounts listed above. 

 Kner's figure of D. plufnbea does not show any small scales on the 

 soft dorsal and anal bases. Bleeker has separated T. kneri, as Kner 

 gives more numerous scales, and more pointed elevated dorsal and 

 anal, etc. Jordan and Scale entirely overlook^'' Bleeker's reference 

 and list T. kneri as 'T. argenteus Kner," and as the locality Kan- 

 davu is in heavy-faced type, they may have thought it distinct from 

 T. argenteus Cuvier, under which they place it. 



Upeneoides philippinus sp. nov. Fig. 15. 



Head 3f ; depth 3f ; D. VIII-I, 8, i; A. I, 6, i; P. ii, 14; V. I, 5; 

 scales 35 in lateral line to caudal base, and 4 more on latter; 3 scales 

 above 1.1. to spinous dorsal origin, and 7 below to spinous anal origin; 

 16 predorsal scales; head width If its length; head depth at occiput 

 1|; snout 2^; eye 4f; maxillary 2f; interorbital 3|; second dorsal 

 spine 1|; first branched dorsal ray 2|; anal spine 3; first branched 

 anal ray 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 2f ; pectoral 1^; ventral If. 



Body elongately ovate, deepest at spinous dorsal origin, edges 

 all broadly convex. Caudal peduncle well compressed, least depth 

 about 1| in its length. 



Head well compressed, flattened sides slightly converge below, 

 profiles convex and upper more inclined. Snout convex in profile 

 and over surface, nearly long as broad. Eye moderate, rounded, 

 close to upper profile, and hind pupil edge about midway in head 

 length. Mouth moderate, little inclined from horizontal, and lower 

 jaw slightly included in upper. Maxillary reaches about opposite 

 front pupil edge, expansion 1| in eye. Lips rather narrow, fleshy. 



17 Bull. Bur. Fisher., 1905 (1906), p. 266. 



