FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 79 



Jolo). — McCuLLOCH, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 108, 1914 (Rock 



Cod Shoal, Great Sandy Strait, Murray Island) . 

 Pentapodus setosus Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 16, No. 4, p. 216, 1928 



(Hervey Bay district). 

 Lahrusl iris (not Valenciennes, 1830) Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 11, p. 357, 1843 [type locality: Off Bustard Bay, New Holland (Queens- 

 land)]. 

 Pentapus paradiseus GUnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 383, 1859 (type 



locality: Sumatra; Australia; Moreton Island; Louisiade Archipelago). 



(Figure not published.) — Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 



South Wales, vol. 1, p. 272, 1877 (off Cape Sidmouth). — Macleay, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 385, 1881 (north and east coasts 



Australia; Cape Sidmouth).— Saville-Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 



284, 1893 (Queensland). 

 Dentex filifer Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austraha. (Victoria), Off. Rec. Philadelphia 



Exhib., p. 12, 1875 (type locality: Queensland). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 383, 1881 (Queensland). — Saville-Kent, Great 



Barrier Reef, p. 283, 1893 (Queensland). 



Depth 3K; head 3K, width 1%. Snout 3 in head; eye 4, 1^ in snout, 

 IK in interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 3 in eye, length 

 3 in head; teeth in villiforni bands in jaws, with pair of front canines 

 in each, lower canines wide set and flare outward somewhat; interor- 

 bital 2%, convex; preopercle edge membranous; opercle ends above 

 in small flat spine. Gill rakers 4 + 5, short low blunt knobs % of gill 

 filaments, which 2% in eye. 



Scales 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more on latter; 5 above, 

 13 below, 35 predorsal forward nearly to nostrils, 7 rows on cheek to 

 preopercle ridge and preopercle flange naked. Scales with 8 basal 

 radiating striae; 110 slender apical denticles, with 2 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2% in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 7, i, third 

 spine 3%, first ray 2%; caudal to tip of lower lobe 1%, to tip of upper 

 filament 1% in rest of body; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; 

 pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Back or upper half of body olivaceous, lower half whitish. Three 

 dusky or slate bands on snout, lowest from front end of maxillary to 

 lower eye edge, median from httle above snout tip close below front 

 nostril to front eye edge and upper band above nostrils to upper front 

 eye edge. Iris golden brown. Gray or whitish band postocular and 

 back httle above axis of body at first and then to upper part of caudal 

 peduncle. At caudal base at end of lateral line small, slate black, 

 round spot, much less than pupil. Fins all pale brown. 



India, Singapore, East Indies, PhiUppines, Tonkin, Queensland, 

 Melanesia. 

 13862 [1891]. Cebu marliet. August 31, 1909. Length, 210 mm. 



