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Depth ?,% to 3/3; head 3)^ to 3%, width 1% to 2. Snout 2% to 2% 

 in head; eye 3}8 to 3}^, IK in snout, little greater than interorbital ; 

 maxillary nearly reaches eye, expansion 2% to 3 in eye, length 2)^ to 3 

 in head; lips rather wide, fleshy; inner band of minute teeth in each 

 jaw with outer series of enlarged ones, becoming enlarged toward 

 mouth corners; 6 upper front canines; interorbital 4 to 5, slightly 

 concave. Gill rakers 3 or 4 + 6, compressed, short, spinescent tuber- 

 cles, 1)4 in gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 48 or 49 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 

 4 above, 11 below, 12 predorsal forward opposite last % in eye, 3 rows 

 on cheek; caudal largely covered with small scales. Scales with 7 

 basal radiating striae; 54 to 67 small obtuse apical denticles, with 2 

 transverse series of basal elements, circuli y&yj fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fifth spine IK to \% in head, third ray 2% to 2%; A. Ill, 

 7, I, third spine 3, first ray 2)i to 2%; caudal 1?, well forked; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2)^; pectoral l)i to 1%; ventral V/a. 



Uniform brown above or on upper half of body. Lower half pale to 

 whitish with brassy luster. Iris brass white. Fins pale or light brown. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Singapore, East Indies, 

 Philippines. 



U.S.N. M. No. 32732. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum of Leiden. Length, 

 151 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 27605. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. HiUer. 

 Length, 207 mm. When fresh in arrack pale rosy red, more or less silvery, 

 inclining to white below. Cheek rosy. Traces of longitudinal yellowish bands 

 along sides, one above lateral line and several below. Scales below front of 

 lateral line slightly darker. Fins more or less tinted orange-red and spinous 

 dorsal and caudal pale orange. Ventral base sulphur-yellow. Iris golden. 



SYNAGRIS MULLOIDES (Bleeker) 



Dentex mulloides Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, p. 576, 1852 



(type locality: Siboga, Sumatra); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 89, 



pi. (48)326, fig. 5, 1876-1877 (Sumatra). 

 Synagris mulloides Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 374, 1859 (copied). — 



Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 15, 1885 (North 



Celebes) . 

 Nemipterus mulloides Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, art. 2, 



p. 36, 1922 (Takao). 

 Synagris tolu (not Valenciennes) Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 



p. 179, 1891 (part). 

 Nemipterus ovenii (not Bleeker) Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 



vol. 26, p. 82, 1906 (1907) (Bulan; part). 



Depth 3 to S%; head 3 to 3%, width l%o to 2. Snout 2% to 3 in 

 head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3)4 greater than snout in young to 

 1% with age, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches to or K in 

 eye, expansion 2% in eye, length 2}^ to 2% in head from snout tip; 

 teeth fine, in narrow bands in jaws, outer row enlarged as 4 to 6 

 front upper canines and 6 to 8 lower front ones, less distinct in young, 



