96 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Scales 47 of which 4 on caudal base; 4 above, 11 below, predorsal 

 extend forward opposite eye center, 4 rows on cheek to preopercle 

 ridge and preopercle flange naked. 



D. X, 9, third spine 2}^ in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 6, i, third spine 

 2%, first ray 2%; lower caudal lobe 1, fin deeply forked with upper 

 longer lobe ending in short filament; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 1}^; ventral 1%. 



Upper half of body pale violet. Very faint violet band from hind 

 eye edge to caudal base and under half of band clear yellow or next 

 to silvery edge of belly. Narrow sulphur-yellow band along upper 

 edge of spinous dorsal. Ventral sulphur-yellow basally. Length not 

 given, but figure 150 mm long, (Steindachner.) 



Zanzibar, Seychelles. 



SYNAGRIS FILIFORMIS (Seale) 



Dentex fiUformis Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, p. 512, pi. 9, 1909 

 (type locality: Surigao, Mindanao). 



Depth 4:%; head 3%, wddth 1%. Snout 3Ko in head; eye 3, subequal 

 with snout and interorbital ; maxillary not quite reaching opposite eye, 

 length 3 in head; curved canines in each jaw, fourth anterior upper 

 largest, with patches of inner villiform teeth anteriorly; interorbital 3. 

 Gill rakers 4 below, short, thick asperities. 



Scales 47 in lateral line, 3 above, 16 below, in horizontal rows on 

 upper third of body and oblique rows below; 5 rows on cheek (6 on 

 figure to preopercle ridge and flange naked). 



D. X, 9, fourth and fifth spines longest or 2}^ in head, longest (first) 

 ray 2 (figure shows 2K); A. Ill, 7, third spine 3% (figure shows 4), 

 longest (first) ray 2% (figure shows 3); least depth of caudal peduncle 

 3; pectoral Iji; ventral Iji; caudal forked, outer upper rays filiform, 

 2% in rest of body. 



Yellowish. Wide brown band, slightly less in width than eye, from 

 eye to middle of caudal. Yellowish above lateral brown band. 

 Entire upper portion of back brown. Round dusky dot at hind end 

 of lateral line. Snout dark brown. Slight trace of additional but very 

 indistinct dusky band on upper sides of belly, fading out posteriorly. 

 Fins all uniform yellowish white. Length, 130 mm. (Seale.) 



Philippines. 



SYNAGRIS HYPSELOGNATHUS (Bleeker) 



Dentex hypselognathus Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 13, 

 No. 3, p. 9, 1873 (type locality : Java; Celebes); Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nderland., 

 vol. 8, p. 84, pi. (47)325, fig. 1, 1876-1877 (Java; Celebes). 



Nemipterits furcosus (?not Valenciennes) Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. 

 Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 48, 1930 (Naha, Okinawa). 



Depth 3K to 3%; head 3K to 3%, profile obhque. Snout 2^ in head; 

 eye 3 to VA, 1% in snout, 1 to IK in interorbital; maxillary reaches % 

 to eye, expansion 2K in eye, length 3 in head; jaws equal; 4 to 6 upper 

 front canines, 6 to 8 lower; bands of villiform teeth in front of jaws. 



