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maxillary not quite reaching eye, 3 to 3% in head; interorbital 3j^ 

 to 3^, convex. Gill rakers 9 + 12, short points. 



Scales in lateral line 27 or 28 + 2; 3 or 4 scales above lateral line, 

 10 or 11 below, 7 or 8 predorsal; cheek scales in 10 rows. Scales 

 with 25 to 29 basal radiating striae; 62 to 112 feeble apical striae; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 8, third spine 4^ in head, seventh ray 2^ to 3; A. Ill, 

 10, third spine 4^ to 53^, eighth ray 2 3^ to 24^; caudal 1 %, truncate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2^ to 2%; pectoral 13^ to \%; 

 ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back brown, sides and below httle paler, but uniform. Brown 

 horizontal streak at lower eye edge, extends back to preopercle and 

 short brown bar forward from eye to nostrils, also small postocular 

 brown spot. Iris pale yellowish. Below soft dorsal back slightly 

 paler or same color as tail below, color at spinous dorsal not greatly 

 contrasted. Spinous dorsal brown like back anteriorly; soft dorsal 

 pale like taU below; upper edges of both dorsals little brownish, 

 though fins without spots. Anal pale like belly, though with some 

 pale gray submarginal ocelli, irregular and much faded. Other fins 

 all pale brown. 



57864 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 151 mm. Type. 

 61154 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 49 mm. Paratype. 



CHOERODON MARGARITIFERUS, new species 



Depth 33^; head 2%, width 2. Snout 33^; eye 5, 1^ in snout, 

 1% in interorbital; maxillary reaches ^ to eye, concealed, length 

 3% in head; 4 front canines in each jaw, outer one each side flares 

 backward; interorbital 2,% in head, slightly depressed, only little 

 elevated. Gill rakers 6 + 10, lanceolate, rather stiff, inner edge with 

 several flexible points, 3^ of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 27 + 2 in lateral line, 4 above, 8 below, 7 predorsal; head 

 scaly, 3 or 4 rows across cheek to angle of preopercle ridge; cheek 

 scaleless anteriorly and on preopercle flange. Lateral line of simple, 

 slender, well exposed tubes, complete. Scales with 13 or 14 basal 

 radiating striae and apically about 45 parallel, obsolete circuli fine. 



D. XII, 8, I, spines stiff, last 43^ in head, fifth ray 4; A. Ill, 9, i, 

 last spine b%, first ray 3%; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; 

 caudal 2, truncate, corners pointed; pectoral 1%; ventral 1^. 



Dull brown generally, paler to whitish below. Gray white line 

 from snout tip to lower eye edge and on postocular broken as row of 

 small white spots to white blotch in pectoral axil and white bar 

 across pectoral base; also above on postocular another similar 

 whitish streak, broken as spots or dots on opercle; they appear as 

 if continued on upper front side of back far as depressed pectoral fin 

 and those from pectoral axil back till above middle of anal base as 



