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EPraULUS INSIDIATOR (Pallas) 



Sparus insidiator Pallas, Spicil. Zool., vol. 8, 1770, p. 41, pi. 5, fig. 1. Java. 



Epihulus insidiator Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. (xiii) 

 110, pis. 398 and 399 (Java, Mauritius, Moluccas). — GtJNTHER, Cat, Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 135 (Amboina and China). — Bleeker, Atlas 

 Ich. Ind. N(5erl., vol. 1, 1862, p. 74, pi. 22, fig. 3 (Java, Duizend Islands, 

 Cocos, Singapore, Sumatra, Nias, Celebes, Batjan). — Kner, Reise Novara, 

 Fische., vol. 2, 1865, p. 252 (Singapore). — Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 

 1866, p. 91 (Zanzibar). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 

 443 (Mauritius). — Gtjnther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, 

 p. 250, pi. 137 (East Africa to South Sea). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, 

 Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 174 (Singapore). — Meter, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 36 (Macassar). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 42, 1912, p. 506 (Okinawa, Riu Kiu). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 Fische, 1913, p. 366 (Saleyer). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol, 62, 1922, p. 51 (Zamboanga) . — McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. 

 Queensland Mus., vol. 8, 1925, p. 168 (Port Denison). 



Epibulus aureus (Van Hasselt) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 

 1862, p. 75 (name in synonymy). 



Epibulus aureus var. flava Bleeker, Atlas. Ichth. Ind. N4erl., vol. 1, 1862, 

 p. 75 (name in synonymy). 



Epibulus striatus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, p. 697. Andaman 

 Islands; Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 395, pi. 87, fig. 2 (type) ; Fauna 

 British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 400, fig. 135 (type). 



Depth 2 to 23^; head 2}/^ to 2%, width 2^ to 3. Snout Z^ 

 to 33^; eye 4 to 6, 13^ to 2 in snout, \y^ to 13^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches opposite middle of eye, 2 to 23^ in head; man- 

 dible Ito to 134; interorbital 43^3 to 5, convex. Gill rakers 6 + 11, 

 lanceolate, moderate. 



Scales in lateral line 13 to 15 + 6 to 8 + 2 or 3; 2 scales above lat- 

 eral line, 6 below, 7 predorsal. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating 

 striae, with many as 7 incomplete auxiliaries; apical 24 to 36; circuli 

 very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 3 to 3J^ in total head length, seventh 

 ray 1^ to 1^; A. Ill, 8, i, third spine 3 to Z%, sixth ray 1% to 

 1%; caudal 1 to 13^, hind edge concave, truncate as expanded, up- 

 per and lower rays with exserted points; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2\i to 2%; pectoral \}4, to 1^; ventral 23^ to 2% in 

 combined head and body. 



Dusky brown or chocolate generally. Pectorals brownish, other 

 fins all dusky or blackish brown. Iris brown. 



East Africa and Mauritius to the East Indies, Riu Kiu and Tahiti. 

 We have no examples as small as Epibulus striatus which has been 

 placed as the young by Gunther. Our smallest examples show the 

 several transverse whitish or pale narrow bands as in Day's figure. 



10324. Balikias Bay, Lubang Island. July 17, 1908. Length, 178 mm. 



23729. Biri Channel. June 1-2, 1909. Length, 103 mm. 



15875. Bolalo Bay, Palawan. December 2, 1908. Length, 217 mm. 



