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width equaling base of pectoral and If in istlimiis. End of tail rather 

 blunt and little compressed. 



Ground color, in spirits, light olivaceous; round brown spots in four 

 series on the sides, extending on the dorsal but becoming fainter on the 

 fin; second series on lateral line, the spots of third mostly smaller; the 

 spots of the different series sometimes alternating regularly, sometimes 

 without definite order ; the diameter of most of the spots in upper two 

 series exceeding the snout ; a fourth series of much smaller spots (not 

 half the diameter of the largest ones) along sides of belly, almost dis- 

 appearing on tail; small, irregular, more or less confluent spots on 

 upper half of dorsal, the fin narrowly margined with whitish. Anal 

 plain, ligiit olivaceous. Pectorals with one or two small, obscure brown 

 spots. 



One fine specimen (26817 U. S. Nat. Mus.), 24^ inches in length. 



o._GYMNOMUIliENA TIGEINA (Lesson) Bleeker. 



IcUlujopVis tigrhms "Lesson, Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nixt. Paris, iv, 399, and Voy. Coq. ZooL 

 ii, 129, Atl. Pois. pi. 12 ; Richard's Voy. Ereb. and Terr. Fish, p. 96 ; Bleek. 

 Versl. Ak. Wet. Natuurk. xv, 463." 



Murccnolhnna iigrina Kaup, Cat. Apod. Pish. Brit. Mus. 98, 18.56 (Strong Island, Havre, 

 Carteret, Moluccas, Celebes) ; Blkr. 8th Bijdrage der Vischfauna van Aniboina, 

 p. 93, 1857 (Java) ; Blkr. Index Pise. Actorum Sci. Soc. Indo-Mer, 5 (name only). 



Gymnomurwna iigrina " Blkr. Atl. Ichth. Mur.p. 113, pi. 21, fig. 3 ; Kuer, Novara Fisch, 

 p. 387"; Gthr. Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. viii, 133, 1870 (Mauritius, Zanzibar. 

 East Indian Archipelago, India). 



EaUtaf. — Java, Mauritius, Zanzibar, East Indian Archipelago, India, 

 Strong Island, Havre, Carteret, Moluccas, Celebes, Johnston's Island. 



Head 4| in trunk. Head and trunk together exceed the tail by the 

 width of the gape, the length from the tip of snout to vent being 

 greater than that from vent to extremity of tail. Snout 8 in head. 

 Eye Ih in snout, its position being over the middle of the gape. Gape 

 3| in head. 



Teeth pointed, recurved, some of them depressible; in two series on 

 upper jaw; anteriorly iu two series in lower jaw, only one at the corner 

 of the mouth ; a few teeth on front of vomer. Posterior nostrils with 

 tubes more conspicuous than anterior. 



Color, in spirits, brownish, everywhere irregularly covered with 

 nearly round blackish spots, varying in size from the orbit to f of the 

 gape ; in front of the occiput the head is thickly covered with very 

 small, dark spots; the spots on the body run together in places, form- 

 ing blotches. 



One specimen (2G823), 17^ inches long. 



3.— AULOSTOMUS CHIXEXSIS (L.) Lacep. 



Fistularia cMnensis (iu part) L. Syst. Nat. i, 515, 1766. 

 Anlostomus chinensis (iu part) Lac6p. v, 357, 1803. 



