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Trunk and tail with 6 dark transverse vertical bands, each of 3 

 scales width, pale interspaces narrow. Pale radiating lines from 

 eye. Sometimes vertical dusky streak on opercle posteriorly and 

 usually 1 across ventral base. Usually some dark blotches about 

 bases of scales above pectoral. Body most everywhere with crowded 

 pale spots, none on paired fins. Soft dorsal with blackish terminal 

 blotch and same basally. Caudal with hind edge broadly blackish 

 and subbasally transverse black band. Pectoral uniformly pale. 

 Ventral pale, with broad transverse black blotch. 



Mauritius, East Africa and Red Sea, to the East Indies and the 

 Riu Kiu Islands, Micronesia, and the Gilbert Islands. 



15171. Alibi jaban Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 6, 1909. Length, 203 mm. 

 7466, 9862 and 16111. Bolalo Bay, Palawan Island. December 21, 1908. 



Length, 152 to 238 mm. 

 8676. Batan Island. June 22, 1909. Length, 87 mm. 

 16359. Biri Channel. January 1, 1909. Length, 89 mm. 

 22253. Biri Channel. June 2, 1909. Length, 90 mm. 

 6118. Bolinao Bay. May 10, 1909. Length, 180 mm. 



19642. Bulan Island, Samales Group. September 13, 1909. Length, 74 mm, 

 7847 and 7848. Candaraman Island, Balabac. January 4, 1909. Length, 112 



to 130 mm. 

 7638. Capunuypugan, Mindanao. May 10, 1908. Length, 205 mm. 

 12723. Casogoran, Malhon Island. July 27, 1909. Length, 137 mm. 

 5328 and 5329. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length, 201 to 316 mm. 

 7434. Dalaganem Island. April 8, 1909. Length, 124 mm. 

 15870. Danawan Island. September 26, 1909. Length, 110 mm. 

 7499, 9250 and 21527. Endeavor Strait. December 22, 1908. Length, 135 



and 263 mm. 

 7368, 7376, 7377. Gigoso Island, Quinapundan Bay, Samar. July 28, 1909. 



Length, 95 to 278 mm. 

 14426. Gubat, Sorsogon, Luzon. June 23, 1909. Length, 115 mm. 

 5776 and 5779. Lianga Bay. May 12, 1908. Length, 240 to 290 mm. (D. 



5524.) 

 14354. Limbones Cove. February 8, 1909. Length, 165 mm. 

 21028. Little Santa Cruz Island. May 28, 1908. Length, 110 mm. 

 16920. Makesi Island. March 3, 1909. Length, 100 mm. 

 13539. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length, 109 mm. 

 12527. Malacochin Harbor, Linapacan Island. December 19, 1908. Length, 



185 mm. 

 16157. Mantacao Island, west coast of Bohol. April 8, 1908. Length, 107 mm. 

 15992. Maricaban Island. January 20, 1908. Length, 134 mm. 

 12147. Masamat Bay, Quinalasag Island. June 12, 1909. Length, 117 mm. 

 7238. Masinloc Bay, Zimbales. November 22, 1908. Length, 275 mm. 

 9337. Matnog Bay, Luzon. May 31, 1909. Length, 122 mm. 

 8067. Mompog Island, Anabayas. November 3, 1909. Length, 245 mm. 

 8963. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 20, 1909. Length, 157 mm. 

 9613. Pagapas Bay. February 20, 1909. Length, 147 mm. 

 6190, 8889, 15670 to 15672. Palag Bay vicinity, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length, 



95 to 256 mm. 

 11276 and 18815. Pandanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length, 125 and 158 mm. 



