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Back brown, below much paler to whitish, entire body with silvery- 

 white sheen. Each row of scales on body longitudinally with slightly 

 darker ill-defined median band. Nebulous neutral dusky spot, less 

 than pupil, at upper front part of opercle and another above pectoral 

 origin. Iris yello^visll. Inside gill opening reddish. An underlaid 

 narrow yellowish line begins behind upper liind edge of gill opening 

 and extends back to bases of uppermost caudal rays, at first largely 

 parallel with lateral line, though posteriorly crosses lateral line on 

 caudal peduncle. Fins all pale brownish, dorsal edges with white 

 border, evidently yellow in life. Anal also with narrow submarginal 

 yellow line. Sulphur-yellow line from axillary scale of ventral fin out 

 along second ray to its tip. 



China, Formosa, Japan. Listed from the Philippines by Elera. 

 Distinguished chiefly by its coloration, longitudinal yellow line on 

 body extending from suprascapula crosses the lateral line, the yellow 

 lines marginally on dorsals, anal, and ventral, and by its caudal 

 filament. 



6456. D. 6305. China Sea (lat. 21° 54' N., long. 114° 46' E.). October 24, 



1908. Length, 238 mm. 

 22444. Port Binanga, Luzon. January 8, 1908. Length, 108 mm. Without 



trace of yellow on body or fins and caudal filament broken terminally. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 22677. Awa, Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 266 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 44917. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 292 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59741. Kochi. Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 220 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71094. Shimizu. Albatross collection. Length, 72 to 103 mm. 



Four examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71139. Tokyo. Albatross collection. Length, 290 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71367. Tokyo. Albatross collection. Length, 180 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76495. Wakanoura. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 190 mm, 

 U.S.N.M. No. 76496. Nagasaki. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 188 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 62865, 52880. Hong Kong. Henry W. Fowler. Length, 205 mm 



for both. 



SYNAGRiS AURIFILUM (Ogilby) 



Pentapus aurifilum Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 93, 1910 

 (type locality: South Queensland, 13 to 70 fathoms); Mem. Queensland 

 Mus., vol. 5, p. 161, pi. 20, 1916 (Queensland). 



Nemipterus (Euthyopteroma) aurifilum Waite, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 4, pt. 

 4, p. 184, 1916 (13 miles southwest North Reef, Queensland, 70 fathoms). 



Depth 3 to 3%; head Z)i to 3%, width 1%, upper profile inclined. 

 Snout 2,)i to Z)i in head; eye 2% to 3, little greater than snout or 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 2% in eye, length 2%o 

 to 3Xo in head; jaws equal; 3 pairs of small upper canines, outer 

 largest, mandibular vestigial; interorbital IK to 1% in eye, feebly 

 convex, low; preopercle edge entire or feebly crenulate; preorbital 

 depth 2% in eye. Gill rakers 4 or 5 + 8 or 9, short, claviform, 6 to 6% 

 in eye. 



