FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 15 



Depth 1%; head 3 to 31^5; width I1/2 to 1%. Snout 3 to 31/3; 

 eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches front eye edge or front pupil edge, 2% to 3 in head ; an outer 

 series of enlarged conic, simple teeth and an irregular biserial inner 

 band of minute teeth; interorbital 2% to 2%, broadly convex; pre- 

 orbital and antero-infraorbitals free, lower edges minutely serrated; 

 preopercle edge minutely serrated. Gill rakers 6+ IT, slender, rather 

 long. 



Tubes in lateral line 19 or 20, pores in straight section 8 or 9, some- 

 times somewhat tubular, to caudal base and to 2 more on latter; 4 

 scales above lateral line, 11 or 12 below, 28 to 30 predorsal forward to 

 snout end; preorbital with 2 or 3 rows of scales, 1 row on infraor- 

 bitals and 5 more rows on cheek. Scales with 5 to 7 basal radiating 

 striae, edges scalloped; apical denticles 78 to 143, basal elements 

 in 2 to 4 transverse series ; circuli very fine. 



D. XI or XII, 15, I, third spine 1% to IV2 in head, sixth ray ll^ 

 to 1% ; A. II, 13, 1, second spine 1%, fourth ray ly^ to 1% ; caudal 3 

 in combined head and body, little emarginate and upper lobe slightly 

 longer; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 1% in head; pectoral 

 3 to 3l^ in combined head and body; ventral 2% to 2%. 



Bister to olive-brown, each scale with slightly paler center. Often 

 some walnut brown shades on head or front of bod}'^, sometimes on 

 caudal peduncle. Iris deep brown. Round white spot, size of 

 pupil, above lateral line and below seventh and eighth dorsal spines. 

 Vertical fins and ventrals seal-brown to blackish. Pectoral brown, 

 like body color, with small dusky brown spot at origin. 



Red Sea, East Africa, Mauritius, India, East Indies, Melanesia, 

 Micronesia, Polynesia, Haw^aii. The young often have a white 

 blotch extending well down on the side of the body, besides a white 

 blotch at the nape. Some also have the soft vertical fins whitish. 



11122. Alibijabau Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon, March 6, 1909. Length, 115 mm. 



1 example, Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length, 98 mm. 



1 example, Bagacay Bay, Escarpada Island, Maranjos Group. March 13, 1909. 



Length, 132 mm. 

 1 example, Bollnao Bay. May 10, 1909. Length, 35 mm. 

 1 example, Buauy- Bay, Talajit Island. March 15, 1909. Length, 114 mm. 



1 example, Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length, 64 mm. 



2 examples, Burias Island, Alimango Bay. March 5, 1909. Length, 71 to 102 

 mm. 



1 example, Bu.^in Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length, 90 mm. 



7 examples, Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf. March 11, 1909. Length, 36 to 120 



mm. 

 12741. 9 examples, Capulaan Bay, Pagbilao Island. February 24, 1909. Length, 



30 to 97 mm. 

 1 example, Capunuypugan, Mindanao. May 9, 1908. Length, 80 mm. 



3 examples, Caxisigan Island. January 2, 1909. Length, 75 to 112 mm. 



