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above, though onlj^ outer enlarged row extends back on each side of 

 mandible, also pair of wide set outer front canines flaring outward; 

 interorbital 2% to 3, broadly but slightly convex; preopercle edge very 

 feebly denticulate behind, lower edge and rounded corner entire; 

 opercle ends in moderate flat spine. Gill rakers 5 + 5, short, flattened, 

 spinescent tubercles, % of gill filaments, which 2}^ in head. 



Scales 52 to 55 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 or 2 more on 

 latter; 4 above, 14 below, 34 to 36 predorsal forward above nostrils, 12 

 rows on cheek of which 3 on preopercle flange. Suprascapula entire. 

 Scales with 5 basal radiating striae; 108 apical denticles with 1 or 2 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2% to 2% in head, seventh ray 2 to 2%; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 3 to d}i, first ray 2^ to 2%; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1% to IK; ventral Ijio to 1%; 

 caudal 2% to 2}^ in rest of body, deeply lunate, each lobe ending in 

 long slender filament, apparently lower (broken) little shorter. 



Back drab-brown, fading paler on sides and under surface quite 

 light to whitish. Sulphur-yellow band, ill defined though little nar- 

 rower than orbit, extends from side of snout to eye, then follows back 

 from lower half of eye axial to bases of supero-median caudal rays, 

 crossing and including lateral line at middle of caudal peduncle. 

 Second narrower sulphury-yellow band, about half pupil in width, 

 extends upward from upper hind eye edge, along and above lateral 

 line its whole extent to end close below last dorsal rays. Fins all pale, 

 caudal with each lobe darker or slightly dusky brown. Iris yellowish. 



East Indies, Philippines. Kno^vn by its two golden longitudinal 

 bands and each caudal lobe ending in a long filament. 



A496. Balukbaluk Island. September 12, 1909. Length, 347 mm. 



17857. Bumbum Island. September 25, 1909. Length, 114 mm. 



8061. Busm Harbor, Burias Island. April 22, 1908. Length, 764 mm. 



7824. Caxisigan Anchorage. January 3, 1909. Length, 245 mm. 



18386. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 90 mm. 



10780. Dalaganem Island. April 8, 1909. Length, 190 mm. 



4815. Jolo market. February 9, 1908. Length, 285 mm. 



4848, 4849. Jolo market. February 12, 1908. Length, 248 to 283 mm. 



5170. Jolo market. March 6, 1908. Length, 336 mm. 



17531. Lampinigan Island, south of Zamboanga. September 11, 1909. Length, 

 250 mm. 



14689. Maculabo Island. June 13, 1909. Length, 220 mm. 



8983. Porongpong Island, Palumbanes Group. June 10, 1909. Length, 188 mm. 



9455 [1986], 16962 [1983], 16963 [1985]. Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. 

 Length, 193 to 292 mm. [1983.] With bright sulphur line from eye to caudal 

 and expanding in median body of caudal. Another from upper edge of orbit 

 somewhat parallel to dorsal base, ending under dorsal axil or obscurely con- 

 tinued along top of caudal peduncle. Caudal lobes purplish. Dorsal very 

 pale hyaline-sulphur, posterior rays slightly pinkish. Anal similar but paler. 

 [1985.] Similar to preceding, but caudal lobes not produced. [1986.] Has 



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