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Depth 2 to 2}^; head 2% to 3%, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2}^ to 3% in 

 head, eye 3 to 5, 2% in snout, greater than snout in young, 2 in inter- 

 orbital, greater than interorbital in young; maxillary reaches below 

 second nostril in adult, slightly beyond front eye edge in young, 

 length 2% to 3 in head with age; about 32 low, rounded teeth developed 

 along each jaw edge with age; interorbital 2% to Sji, convex; pre- 

 opercle edge finely serrated. Gill rakers 5 + 13, lanceolate, IK in gill 

 filaments, which 1}^ in eye. 



Scales 90 to 122 along lateral line to caudal base; tubes 70 to 80 

 in lateral line to caudal base; 30 or 31 scales above lateral line, 60 to 

 62 below, 28 to 30 predorsal forward to occiput and 25 to 33 more still 



Figure Q.—Oplegnathm faaciatus (Schlegel), young 



forward opposite hind nostril, 17 to 23 rows on cheek. Scales with 2 

 to 9 basal radiating striae, also 2 to 4 other incomplete auxiliaries; 

 11 to 15 rather long apical denticles, with 2 or 3 transverse rows of 

 basal elements; circuli rather coarse. 



D. XI or XII, 17, I or 18, i, sixth spine 2 to 2% in head, third 

 ray 1% to 1%; A. Ill, 13, i, third spine 2% to 2%, third ray 1% to 

 1%; caudal 1}^ to 1%, moderately emarginate; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1% to IK; ventral IK to 1%. 



Generally light brown to whitish, with 7 strongly contrasted black 

 vertical bands; in young bands more or less bent forward and with 

 advanced age obscure with largely uniform appearance. First band 

 through eye; second from front of spinous dorsal; third from middle of 



