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D. X, 9, 1, first and second rays elongate filaments of which 1% to 1% 

 in combined head and body to caudal base, first spine 1% to 2 in head, 

 seventh ray 1% to 1%; A. Ill, 7, i, third spine 3 to 3%, sixth ray 1% 

 to 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to Zji; lower caudal lobe l}i 

 to 1 Yi, fin deeply emarginate, upper lobe 1% to Sji in combined head and 

 body to caudal base; pectoral IK to 2%; ventral 3, Ijito 1% in head in 

 young. 



Back pale brown, with silvery- white sheen. Iris yellovidsh. Upper 

 edge of spinous dorsal narrowly sulphur-yellow. Axillary ventral 

 scale sulphur-yellow. 



East Indies, Philippines. A brilliant species, though alcoholic 

 specimens fade to largely silvery white. Unlike Bleeker's figure they 

 show both the long filamentous dorsal spines and the upper caudal 

 filament sulphur-yellow. 



D. 5442, 1338, 1341, 1343 to 1346, 1348, 2526 [1541], 9759, 9760 to 9767, 9770, 



9771, 10566 to 10568, 10571, 10573 to 10584. San Fernando Point Light, N. 



39°, E. 8.4 miles (lat. 16° 30' 36" N., long. 120° 11' 6" E.), Luzon. May 11, 



1909. Length, 55 to 250 mm. 

 4228, D. 5655. Cape Tobako, N. 7°, E. 13 miles (lat. 3° 34' 10" S., long. 120° 50' 



30" E.), Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 18, 1909. Length, 210 mm. 

 D. 5358. 1831, 1832. Sandakan Light, S. 34°, W. 9.7 miles (lat. 6° 6' 40" N., 



long. 118° 18' 15" E.), Jolo Sea. January 7, 1909. Length, 160 to 175 mm.? 



Subgenus Odontoglyphis Fowler 



SYNAGRIS TOLU (Valenciennes) 



Dentex iolu Valencihnnes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 248, 1830 (type locality: 

 Pondicherry; New Guinea). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), 

 vol. 25, p. 38, 1853; Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, p. 52, 1852 (Singa- 

 pore); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 7, pi. (37)315, fig. 1, 1873-1876; 

 vol. 8, p. 88, 1876-1877 (Sumatra, Banka, Java, Sumbawa, New Guinea). — 

 Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 627, 1904 

 (Padang); Mem. Bishop Mas., vol. 10, p. 220, 1928 (copied Day); Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 645 (Padang material). 



Synagris tolu Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 767, 1870 

 (Red Sea).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 91, pi. 23, fig. 6, 1875 (types); 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 528, fig. 159, 1889.— Sauvage, Hist. 

 Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 179, pi. 7, figs. 5-5a, 1891. — Zugmayer, Abh. 

 Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. KL, vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 11, 1913 (Mekran, 

 Oman). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1915-1918, p. FIO. — Malpas, 

 Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1921, p. E8. 



Scolopsis tolu Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 657 (Muscat). 



Nemipterus tolu Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 22, 1906 (1907) 

 (Cavite). 



Cantharus guliminda Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 344, 1830 (on 

 Lama guliminda Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 6, pi. 107, 1803, 

 type locality: Vizagapatam) . 



Spondyliosoma guliminda Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 

 p. 1032, 1849 (1850) (Pinang Sea). 



Dentex guliminda Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 38, 1853. 



Dentex obtusus (Van Hasselt and S. MtJLLi;^) Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. 

 Amsterdam, vol. 13, No. 3, p. 21, 1873 (name in synonymy). 



