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with age also several anterolateral short canines; interorbital 3% 

 to SYi, very slightly elevated and greater median area flattened; 

 preopercle edge entire and membranous with age, both margin of 

 preopercle and preorbital with venules and young with hind pre- 

 opercle edge very minutely serrate. Gill rakers 5 to 7 + 5 to 7 short 

 finely spinescent tubercles, K of gill fdaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 47 or 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 to 4 more on latter; 

 4 above, 11 or 12 below, 15 predorsal forward opposite eye center, 3 

 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge and flange naked. Suprascapula 

 with slightly jagged edge. Scales wdth 7 or 8 basal radiating striae; 

 46 to 48 apical denticles, small, weak, with 2 or 3 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 1% to 1% in head, first ray 2 to 2%; A. Ill, 

 6, I, third spine 2% to 3, first ray 2% to 2%; lower caudal lobe iKo to 

 1%, fin deeply forked, upper lobe longer and ends in short filament, 

 length of upper lobe 2% to 3 in rest of body; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 3 in head; pectoral 1)^ to IK; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back and sides down till level with vertebral axis warm brown, 

 under surfaces whitish and whole body with silvery white sheen. 

 Iris silvery white. Fins all pale brownish, lighter than back. Inside 

 gill opening reddish. 



East Indies, Philippines, China, Formosa. Characterized by its 

 plain and more or less silvery coloration, the back, slightly contrasted 

 with the belly and uppercaudal lobe endingin short filament, evidently 

 broken in most of my^ specimens. 



19775. Caute Province. Length, 113 mm. 



18667 [1789]. Hiniinangan Bay, Leyte. July 30, 1909. Length, 157 mm. 



19595. Manila Harbor, Luzon. Januarj"^ 13, 1908. Length, 88 mm. 



20450, 20451. Nato, Luzon. June 19, 1909. Length, 145 to 147 mm. 



19926. Parang, Mindanao. May 23, 1908. Length, 150 mm. 



19418. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length, 123 mm. 



19693. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length, 148 mm. 



21598. Kowloon market, China. October 5, 1908. Length, 107 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 56247. Bulan, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 3371). 



Length, 159 mm. As Nemipterus ovenii. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76624. Takao, Formosa. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 193 to 255 



mm. Seven examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76637. Takao. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 73 to 117 mm. Six 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76638. Takao. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 68 to 83 mm. Three 



examples. 



Genus DENTEX Cuvier 



Dentex Cuvier, M^m. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, pp. 456, 486, 1815. (Type, 

 Sparus dentex Linnaeus, tautotypic.) 



Synagris (Klein) Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 586, 1792. (Atypic. On 

 Synagris Klein, Missus , vol. 5, p. 49, 1740.) (Type, Dentex vulgaris 

 Valenciennes^ Spar ws dentex Linnaeus, designated by Bleeker, Arch, 

 N^erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol 11, p. 278, 1876.) (Inadmissible.) 



