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Pimelepterus altipinnoides Guichenot, Notes lie Reunion, vol. 2, p. 7 (26), 1862 

 (type locality: Reunion). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 271, 

 pi. 49o (not 59 as in text), fig. 4, 1891 (Reunion). 



Pachymetopon squamosum Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 1, p. 275, pi. 9, fig. 1, 1877 (type locality: Hall Sound, New 

 Guinea). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 62, 1879 

 (Solomons) ; vol. 5, p. 407, 1881 (reference) ; vol. 7, p. 246, 1882 (New Guinea). 



Opisthistius squamosus Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 320, 1931 (ref- 

 erence) . 



Scorpis vinosa Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 

 1, p. 277, pi. 9, fig. 2, 1877 (type locality: Darnley Island). — Macleay, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 398, 1881 (reference). — Vaillant, 

 Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 3, p. 85, 1897. 



Kyphosus waigiensis (not Qtjoy and Gaimakd) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur, 

 Fisher., vol. 25, p. 271, 1905(1906) (Apia). 



Depth 1% to 2%; head 3)^ to 3K, width 1% to 1%. Snout 2% to 3Ko 

 in head; eye 3}i to Z%, 1% to Iji in snout, 1}^ to IK in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches eye, ji in eye in young, expansion 2 to 2% in eye, 

 length 3 to 3% in head; teeth about 34 in jaws, uniserial, compressed, 

 end pointed, entire; interorbital 2% to 3, broadly convex; preopercle 

 edge minutely and feebly serrated, flange finely crenulated. Gill 

 rakers 9 or 10 + 18 to 20, lanceolate, 1% to IK in gill filaments, which 

 1% to 2% in eye. 



Scales 61 to 64 along above lateral line to caudal base; tubular 

 scales 48 to 56 in lateral fine to caudal base and 7 to 10 more on latter; 

 11 scales above, 18 below, 55 to 63 predorsal forward above nostrils; 

 11 transverse rows on cheek. Suprascapula crenulated, edge entire. 

 Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiating striae, edge scalloped; 87 to 90 

 apical denticles, with 4 to 6 transverse series of basal elements; circuli 

 very fine. 



D. XI, 12, I, fourth spine 2K to 3% in head, fifth ray 1% to P(o; A. 

 Ill, 11, I, third spine 3% to 3%, third ray 1% to 1%; least depth of cau- 

 dal peduncle 2 to 2%; pectoral 1% to IK; ventral V/i to 1%; caudal 2% 

 to 3% in combined head and body to caudal base, deeply emarginate. 



Back and head above olive to dusky brown, sides below lighter and 

 under surface whitish. Gray white streak from preorbital close along 

 and below eye. Iris pale brownish. Fins more or less dusky, paired 

 ones little paler. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Reunion, India, East 

 Indies, Philippines, Japan, Queensland, Melanesia, Polynesia, Easter 

 Island. Easily distinguished by the soft dorsal higher than the 

 spinous dorsal. 



6305, 11632, 12446. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length, 157 



to 202 mm. 

 8830. Malcochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December 19, 1908. Near Palag 



Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 204 to 220 mm. 

 14962. Port Ciego, Balabac. January 3, 1909. Length, 164 mm. 



