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simple, slender, imiserial in jaws, those on each side of mandible little 

 larger; row of small fine teeth on each palatine, none on vomer; in- 

 terorbital 4i^ to 5, level; side and top of head, finely and rather 

 feebly venulose. Gill rakers 15+25, finely lanceolate, 1/2 eye; gill 

 filaments % of gill rakers. 



Scales very caducous, fallen from most all specimens, 40 to 42 

 (pockets) in median lateral series to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 15 or IG transversely, 23 to 28 predorsal. Scales with basal 

 half with 3 or 4 short, marginal, basal striae; apically without fine 

 transverse parallel striae or circuli but membranous outer portion 

 with 25 to 30 horizontal parallel fine marginal striae. 



D. IV, 13, I or IV, 14, i, first branched ray 2 to 2l^ in total head 

 length ; A, 11. 11, i to n, 14, i, first branched ray 5i/^ to 6% ; caudal 

 1 to 1%, deeply forked and lobes sharply pointed; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 31/5 to 3i^ ; pectoral IY5 to 1% ; ventral 2% to 24^. 



FiGDKE 14. — Etrumeiis albuUna Fowler: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 93130). 



Back uniform drab brown till level with upper eye edge, line of 

 demarcation sharp from brilliant silvery white of body, sides of head 

 and body. Snout rather pale brown, tip and mandible tip dusky. 

 Dorsal and caudal pale brownish. Anal and paired fins whitish. 



Differs from Etrumeus micropus in its deeper body, its depth 4 

 to 4% compared with 5% to 7 in the Japanese species, in which it 

 approaches Eti^meus jacksoniensis, differing from both in about only 

 25 lower gill rakers. 



U.S.N.M. No. 93136, Iloilo. Bureau of Fisheries (14150). Length, 150 rum. 



June 1, 1908. Type. 

 21931. Caiholo River, Ulugan Bay, Palawan. Length, 75-80 mm. 

 5954, 5956. Cavite market. September 4, 1909. Length, 68-88 mm. 

 5 examples. Cebu market. September 4, 1909. Length, G8-88 mm. [1904]. 

 19404, 19407. Iloilo market. March 28, 1908. Length, 75-115 mm. 8 examples. 

 14150 to 1415G. Iloilo market. June 1, 1908. Length, 128-150 mm. [Type No. 



14150.] Paratypes. 

 5150 to 5152. Manila market, Luzon. December 12 to 18, 1907. Length, 137- 



142 mm. 

 22550 to 22553. Manila market. January 13, 1908. Length, 85-121 mm. 

 21930 and 21932. Manila market. April 16, 1909. Length, 130-136 mm. 



