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Elongate ovoid. Snout blunt; eye high; mouth large. Six canines 

 in each jaw with small villiform teeth behind. Scales large, ctenoid, 

 exposures deeper than wide; jaws and caudal base scaly. Lateral 

 line arched high. D. X, 10; A. Ill, 8; caudal forked, rays 17; pec- 

 toral rays 17. Body rosy, nearlj^ uniform and silvery. Eye golden. 

 Length, 190 mm. (Quoy and Gaimard.) 



A doubtful species, imperfectly described, and known only from 

 the type. Valenciennes says the suborbital is deep, scales on cheek 

 larger than those on body, 45 scales in lateral line. D. X, 9 and A. 

 Ill, 7. 



SYNAGRIS WORCESTERI ( Evermann and Scale) 



Nemipterus worcesteri Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. SU 

 jBg. 14, 1906 (1907) (type locality : Bacon, Philippines). 



Depth 3K; head 3%, width 1%. Snout 2% in head from snout tip; 

 eye Z%, Iji in snout, IK in interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to eye; 

 5 or 6 small front canines in each jaw; band of inner vilhform teeth 

 all around above and below in front; upper jaw with outer row of 

 slightly enlarged simple conic teeth and below give place to single row 

 of slightly larger conic teeth; interorbital Z% in head from snout tip, 

 slightly convex, with median depression; preopercle edge membra- 

 nous, entire. Gill rakers 5 + 5 low tubercles, ji gill filaments, which 

 1^ in eye. 



Scales 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 8 more on latter; 4 

 above, 12 below, 15 predorsal forward opposite eye center, 3 rows on 

 cheek to preopercle edge and flange naked. Scales with 5 or 6 

 basal radiating striae; 55 to 126 low conic apical points, with 1 to 4 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X, 9, I, spines flexible terminally and membranes entire mar- 

 ginally, fourth spine 2% in total head length, first ray 2%, last ray Z%; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 3%, first ray Z%; caudal (damaged) (IK on 

 figure) forked, lobes rather broad and pointed; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle Z%; pectoral 1^; ventral 1%. 



Back pale brown, sides and below still paler to whitish. Iris pale 

 yellowish. Fins uniform brownish. 



Only loiown from the type. This evidently has the caudal peduncle 

 stained, toward and inclusive of the caudal base, blackish brown. 

 Known by its general resemblance to the smaller Synagris metopias, 

 but that species with a narrower preorbital, no lower canines, high 

 course of lateral line and the maxillary reaching beyond front of eye. 

 Points in common, however, are the comparatively small pectoral, 

 entire dorsal fin and short hind dorsal and anal rays. 



U.S.N. M. No. 55917. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries. Length (caudal broken), 

 213 mm. Type of Nemipterus worcesteri. 



