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18957. Tilig, Lubang. July 14, 1908. Length, 181 mm. 



14138. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 10, 1909. 



Length, 114 mm. 

 A1257. Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Length, 240 mm. 

 21195. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 84 mm. 

 20838. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 74 mm. 

 14492, 14493, 21479, 21480. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length, 79 



to 99 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52362. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 172 to 193 



mm. Three examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65515. Mangareva. A ibaiross collection, 1904-1905. Length, 103 



to 228 mm. Ten examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71973. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. Albatross collection, 1906. 



Length, 180 to 182 mm. Two examples. 



PENTAPODUS NUBILUS Cantor 



Pentapodus nubilus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, p. 1031, 1849 

 (1850) (type locality : Pinang). 



Penta'pus nubilus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 382, 1859 (com- 

 piled). — Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 13, No. 3, p. 53, 

 1873 (compiled). 



Head 3. Eye Kttle posterior of head center, little less than 3 in 

 head; canines of both jaws very small, 4 above, 6 below, of which 2 

 outer largest and slightly arched outward. 



Scales 47 in lateral line, very distinct, follows outline of back. 

 Number of minute pores on infraorbitals, cheek, preopercle edge and 

 lower jaw. Scales very finely ciliated. 



D. X, 9; A. Ill, 8; pectoral reaches anal spine. 



Head above and back light reddish brown, paler on sides. Cheeks, 

 gill covers, and abdomen silvery white. Indistinct blacldsh oblique 

 band from nape of neck to point of opercle; second similar in front of 

 dorsal, ending beneath lateral line in large rounded spot. Few in- 

 distinct clouded blackish spots along sides. Body scales indistinctlj^ 

 edged brownish and minutely dotted with brown. Dorsal, caudal, and 

 anal pale yellowish. Paired fins white, hind half of latter blackish, 

 fin membranes minutely dotted with brown. Iris pale golden. 

 Length, 107 mm. (Cantor.) 



Pinang, 



PENTAPODUS SETOSUS (Valenciennes) 



Pentapus setosus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 270, 1830 (type 

 locality: Batavia). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 382, 1859 

 (compiled).— Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 60, 1865 (Madras, Singapore). — 

 Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 60, pt. 1, 

 p. 559, 1 870 (Singapore). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, p. 101, 

 pi. (46)324, fig. 1, 1876-1877 (Sumatra, Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Biliton, 

 Duizend Islands, Java, Celebes, Batjan).— Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New- 

 South Wales, vol. 5, p. 385, 1881 (north coast. Port Jackson). — Karoli, 

 Term^sz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 154, 1881 (Singapore). — Pellegrin, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, p. 84, 1905 (Bale d' Along, Tonkin).— 

 Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 84, 1906 (1907) (Bulan, 



