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9357. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length, 213 mm. 



15696. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length, 220 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 25147. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. M. Hiller. 

 Length, 469 mm. Color in arrack brown, lower surface slightly lighter and 

 side with number of rather broad pale or indistinct longitudinal narrow bands of 

 drab-gray. Fins olivaceous-dusky. Iris pale brownish. Peritoneum black. 



One example, A.N.S.P. Madagascar. M. Lamberton. Length, 250 mm. 



KYPHOSUS BLEEKERI. new species 



Pimelepterus lembus (not Cuvier) GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 498, 



1859 (type locality: Moluccas). 

 Pimelepterus waigiensis (not Quoy and Gaimard) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



N^erland., vol. 9, p. 17, pi. (2)364, fig. 2, 1877 (specimen, definite locality not 



indicated) . 



Depth 2^^; head 3%. Snout 2% in head; eye 4, 1% in snout, 1% in 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches about % in snout, expansion 1% in 

 eye, length 3% in head; 9 teeth shown in profile of each jaw on figure; 

 interorbital moderately high ; lov, er half of hind preopercle edge, also 

 entire lower edge finely serrated. 



Scales 80 along above lateral line, 75 along below lateral line, 60 

 tubular in lateral line to caudal base, though figure shows about 70; 

 11 above, 16 below, predorsal extend forward halfway in snout, 7 

 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge, with 3 more across preopercle 

 flange; preorbital finely scaled nearly up to nostrils. 



D. XI, 14 or 15 (XI, 14, i on figure, seventh spine 2 in head, first 

 ray 2%; A. Ill, 13, i, second spine 4%, first ray 2%; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral IK; caudal 3K in combined 

 head and body to caudal base, hind edge emarginate). 



Blue-gray above, below pearl white. Iris rosy. Silvery streak 

 from above snout tip along lower eye edge back toward pectoral axil. 

 Each row of scales longitudinally on body with diffuse golden streak. 

 Fins violaceous-gray or pale pearly rose. Length, 410 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies. 



Diagnosis. — The above name is proposed for Bleeker 's figure and 



description, evidently not to be confused with Pimelepterus waigiensis 



Quoy and Gaimard. The species is known by its elongate or more 



slender body than in most species of the genus, its small scales, scaly 



preorbital, and the soft dorsal and anal subequal with or higher than 



the spinous fins. 



Subgenus Opisthistius Gill 



KYPHOSUS CINERASCENS (Forskil) 



Sciaena cinerascens Forskal, Descript. Animal., p. xii, 53, 1775 (type locality: 

 Arabia). — Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., p. 125, 1788 (Red Sea). — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1305, 1789 (Arabia). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 

 vol. 3, p. 312, 1792 (on Forskal). 



Pimelepterus cinerascens Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 143, pi. 35, fig. 3, 1875. — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, p. 15, pi. (2)364, fig. 4, 1877 

 (Sumatra, Banka, Cocos, Java, Bali, Solor, Flores, Celebes, Timor, Obi 

 Major, Amboina, Saparua, Philippines, Papua). — GxInther, Ann. Mag. 



