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extended over halfway back along each side of mandible, outer row 

 enlarged all along mandible and medianly 4 or 5 of teeth slightly 

 larger; interorbital 3% to 3%, but slightly elevated, broadly level; 

 preopercle edge entire, flange together with preorbitals, suborbitals 

 and interorbital, venulose. Gill rakers 5 + 5, short, low, spinescent 

 tubercles, ji of gill filaments, which 2}^ in eye. 



Scales 43 or 44 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 

 4 above, 11 below, 12 or 13 predorsal forward midway in eye, 3 rows 

 on cheek. Suprascapula with jagged edge. Scales with 7 basal 

 radiating striae; 36 to 93 apical denticles, small, weak, with 1 to 5 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2 to 2}^ in total head length, first ray 2% 

 to 2%; A. II or III, 7, i, last spine 3)^ to 3%, first ray 2% to 3; caudal 

 1 to 1^8, well forked, with slender pointed lobes, lower slightly shorter 

 and apparently neither ending in filament; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3)3 to Sji; pectoral IK; ventral 1% to Iji. 



Back warm brown, lower sides and below silvery white. Back shows 

 some slightly darker cloudings. Iris golden. Fins all light brown, 

 without traces of markings. 



East Indies, Philippines, Formosa. yLy examples agree with 

 Bleeker's figure in almost everj'^ respect, except that they do not show 

 the dark blotches along the back. From Synagris mulloides it may be 

 known by the shorter dorsal spines, the fourth of which at least alv/ays 

 distinctly over half length of head. The young of the present species 

 are greatly like those of Synagris mulloides, and apparently the spinous 

 dorsal is not with so deep notches on the membranes marginally. 



7653, 11336. San Roque, Leyte. July 29, 1909. Length, 155 to 174 mm. 



The following are probably the young : 



22093. Abuyog, Leyte. July 26, 1909. Length, 103 mm. 



20736. Balayan Bay (Toal). January 19, 1908. Length, 87 mm. 



12826. Cavite and San Roque, Masbate. June 27, 1908. Length, 95 mm. 



SYNAGRIS LUTEUS (Schneider) 



Coryp/mena Zuiea Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloeh, p. 297, pi. 58,1801 (type locality : 



Eastern Sea at Tranquebar). 

 Dentex luteus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 250, 1830 (Pondicherry). — 



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



Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 283 (Orion; Philippines). 

 Synagris luteus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 377, 1859 (copied). — 



Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, pi. 8, fig. 5, 1875. 

 Synagris lutea Martens, Prenss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 387, 1876 (Bangkok). 

 Nemipterus Ivteus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 21, fig. 7, 



1906 (1907) (Cavite). 

 Dentex striatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 252, 1830 (type 



locality: Tranquebar). — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., 1851, p. 134. 

 Synagris striatus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 90, 1875 (Vizagapatam) ; Fauna 



Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 626, 1889. 



