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and ending under anterior third of eye, its distal end formed by the supplemental bone, pointed and directed 

 slightly upward: base of mandible under middle of eve: teeth in jaws in a single row. rather strong, triangular, 

 about 14 to 17 on each side; minute teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue: gillrakers rather bluntly pointed, 

 15 on lower limb, the longest 3 in snout; opercle and preopercle entire, the posterior margin of preopercle 

 with a wide anterior curve in its middle portion; cheek and opercle with fine scales; body entirely covered 

 with fine, thin deciduous scales: lateral lines 2. the upper beginning at upper edge of opercular opening and 

 running approximately parallel with the back to below the sixth dorsal finlet, where it curves downward and 

 unites with the lower branch; lower branch originating under base of third dorsal spine, running nearly 

 vertically downward to level of lower edge of pectoral, where it curves backward and extends along lower 

 third of side to middle of caudal peduncle, where it again unites with the upper branch; no corselet; breast 

 scaled; caudal peduncle with a median keel and a smaller one above and below it. 



Fig. 3. — Nesogrammus piersoni Evermann & Seale, new species. Type. 



Origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout and third ray of soft dorsal; dorsal spines connected, 

 except t he 2 posterior ones, which do not protrude, the longest spine 2.75 in head, the 2 dorsals entirely separate : 

 origin of soft dorsal slightly in advance of vent, its longest ray 2.75 in head; dorsal finlets 7; origin of anal 

 midway between base of caudal and origin of ventrals, its longest ray 3.75 in head; anal finlets 7; no free 

 spines in front of anal; origin of ventrals below axil of pectoral, their length 3 in head; caudal deeply forked. 



Color in spirits, brownish above, silvery below: a large dusky blotch at origin of lateral line and in axil 

 of pectoral; top of snout dusky; a dusky area through eye; membranes of spinous dorsal dusky: ventrals 

 darker on posterior third; other fins with very slight wash of dusky. 



One specimen (field no. 4178), the type, no. 55899, U. S. National Museum, 16 inches long, from Bulan, 

 Sorsogon, P. I.; collected by Prof. Charles J. Pierson, for whom (he species is named. 



Family TKlCHll R1D.J-:. 



55. Trichiurus haumela (Forskal). Pirika. 



Head 7.5 in length; depth 14; eye 6.1 in head, 2 in snout: interorbital 2.5 in snout; dorsal 129; anal 

 represented by 106 minute spines; teeth large, 18 in upper jaw, 20 in lower; no teeth on vomer, a few minute 

 teeth on palatines; gillrakers consisting of small, sharp spines, about 14 on lower limb. 



Color in spirits, silvery, bluish above; 2 bright yellow longitudinal stripes on lower half of body; dorsal 

 yellow, with dusky margin. 



One specimen from San Fabian (no. 3381; length 19.75 in.). 



I lupea haumela Forskal, Descr. Anim., 72. 1775. Red Sea. 



l'n, Hums haumela, Giinther, Cat., II, 348 (Malayan Peninsula; Amboyno I. 



Family CAKWCIDl:. 



56. Scomberoides toloo-parah. (Ruppell). Cassisung. 

 Two specimens from San Fabian (no. 3716 and 3717: length 6. 25 and 6.5 in.). 



oho-parat Rilppell, Atlas, Fische, 91, 1828, Massowah, Red Sea. 

 nemus loloo, Giinther, Cat., u. 473. 



