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in head from snout tip; teeth in anterior viUiform bands of 6 or 7 

 irregular rows in jaws, with outer row of enlarged strong conic teeth; 

 interorbital 2% to 3K, broad and slightly convex; preopercle edge 

 entire, flange with vermiculate striae; preorbital with fine rugose 

 striae. Gill rakers 4 + 5, short tubercles, 2}^ in gill filaments, wliich 

 3 in eye. 



Scales 46 to 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 6 or 7 scales above, 15 to 17 below, 10 to 15 predorsal forward, 

 opposite hind eye edge; 4 rows on cheek. Suprascapula denticulate, 

 entire with age. Scales with 12 basal radiating striae; 60 to 75 apical 

 denticles, minute, rather slender points, with 1 to 10 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 10, I, fourth spine 2 to 2% in total head length, fifth ray 

 2 to 2%; A. Ill, 10, I, third spine 3 to 3^^, second ray, 2% to 2%; 

 caudal 1 to 1%, deeply lunate, lobes angular or broadly rounded, 

 lower usually little shorter; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; 

 pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral Iji to IK- 



Brown, below paler or whitish. Back with 5 to 8 transverse dark 

 streaks, irregular, variable, often obsolete in preserved examples. 

 Iris yeUowish brown. Dorsals and anals often clouded or spotted 

 obscurely with darker. Caudal often clouded darker, sometimes each 

 lobe with many as 7 oblique cross bands of darker. Pectoral pale 

 or dull brownish, base deeper brown. Ventral brown, dusky to 

 neutral dusky on membranes, especially terminally. 



Mauritius, East Indies, Philippines, Indo-China, China, Japan. 

 A very variable species. Young specimens often with a dark blotch 

 on the iris above, a dark interorbital line or band, also a broad dark 

 band transversely on cheek below eye or caudal with 3 or 4 dark 

 transverse bands. 



A516, A522. Bulan. September 13, 1909. Length, 293 to 295 mm. 



18679. Hinunangan Bay, Leyte. June 30, 1909. Length, 127 mm. 



7015. Port San Pio Quinto. November 10, 1908. Length, 380 mm. 



4897. Siasi Island Inlet. February 17, 1908. Length, 270 mm. 



7366. Tara Island, December 15, 1908. Length, 203 mm. 



6009, 6010, 6492. Zamboanga market. May 27-29, 1908. Length, 258 to 

 310 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 56020. Zamboanga. Bureau of Fisheries (4046). Length, 150 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 56021. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 324 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 71288. Misaki, Japan. Albatross collection (0893) . Length, 228 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 75485. Nagasaki. Albatross collection. Length, 241 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 75486. Nagasaki. Albatross collection. Length, 146 to 258? mm. 

 Three examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 84240. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length, 207 to 210 mm. 

 Two examples. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 27608, 27609. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. 

 Hiller. Length, 63 to 229 mm. Fresh in arrack dull olivaceous above, below 

 white washed with silvery. Side with five narrow vertical dusky bars, last 

 little obliquely forward to middle of anal. Vertical dusky bar across side of 



