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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family DTODONTID.E. 



165. DIODON HOLACANTHUS Linnaeus. 



One specimen from Hokoto, No. 277, f^imilar to Japanese examples. 

 Family SILLACHNID.F. 



166. SILLAGO SIHAMA (Forsk^l). 

 One specimen. No. 2!tli, from Formosa, F. I. 



167. SILLAGO iEOLUS Jordan and Evermann, new species. 



Head 3.4; depth 5.0; Q\e 3.6; snout 2.5; interorbital 5.5; D. XI-I, 

 19; A. II, 17; scales 5-76-8. Body long, slender, and compressed; 

 anterior profile gently arched from tip of snout to origin of spinous 

 dorsal; ventral outline. nearh^ straight; head long, the snout pointed; 

 mouth small, low, somewhat obli(|uc, the lower jaw included; teeth in 



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broad villiform l)ands on each jaw and on vomer; hea4 ver^' rugose, the 

 muciferous structure strongly marked; eye large, lateral; snout long 

 and pointed; caudal peduncle moderate, compressed, its least depth a 

 little more than one-half snout. Scales rather thin, somewhat irregular, 

 weakl}" ctenoid; lateral line complete, slightly arched al)Ove the pectoral; 

 nape scaled, head naked, except on cheek,' where there arc about two 

 rows of large scales. Dorsal fins two, the first of long, slender spines, 

 its origin alwve middle of pectoral; interspace between fins short; 

 anal similar to soft dorsal, its origin somewhat more posterior; pec- 

 toral and ventrals moderate; caudal slightly forked. 



Color in alcohol, pale straw-color; middle of side with two series of 

 large, oblong, blackish blotches, about six or seven in each series; a 

 plumbeous silvery band along middle of side below lateral line, most 

 distinct posteriorly ; fins all somewhat punctulate. 



Type. — A specimen 5.25 inches long from Keerun, Formosa, No. 

 7135, Stanford Universit}^ Museum. 



