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markable for the combination of characters it exhibits, in many ways 

 it resembles Sciaena i^sseli (Cuvier), but differs at once in the long 

 gill-rakers. S. rmseli, like S. dussumieri (Valenciennes) , is evidently 

 quite variable. It apparently has a much longer mental barbel, lower 

 spinous dorsal, and usually longer maxillary. In the last character 

 we find an example in the academy from the Philippines showing it 

 only reaching opposite to the eye center, whereas in smaller examples, 

 which Fowler lists as S. dicssumieri,^ it reaches the hind eye edge. 

 These examples, all in the Academy of Natural Sciences, show : Head 



3 to 3|, or 2§ in young; depth 3 to 3^, or 3^ in young; D. X, I, 25 

 to 27, i ; A. II, 7, i ; scales close above and along lateral line 50 to 56 

 to caudal base ; tubes about 48 in lateral line to caudal base ; 7 scales 

 above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin ; 39 or 40 predorsal scales ; 

 snout 3J to 3|- in head, 4 in young; eye 4^ to 5, 3 in young; maxillary 

 2^ to 2|, 2| in young; interoribital 3f to 4. Contour elongately ovoid, 

 back but slightly elevated ; length of caudal peduncle four-fifths its 

 least depth, which 3 to 3j^o ^^ head, 3f in young. Head width 2 to 2^ 

 in its length. Snout convex, length f to f its width. Eye little ele- 

 vated, 1 to 1^ in snout; snout length three-fourths of eye in young; 

 hind eye edge about midway in head length, little advanced in half 

 grown and little backward in young. Maxillary reaches eye center, 

 but little short of hind edge in half-grown and young; expansion If 

 to 11 in eye. Teeth fine, m bands in jaws, outer upper little enlarged ; 

 lower fine, small. Snout end with 6 porelike slits, of 3 uppermost 

 median highest, alike ; each lower lateral cleft to upper lip ; chin with 



4 pores, small one on front of barbel at base ; barbel If to 1^ in eye. 

 Front nostril at least two-fifths in snout; hind one three times as large, 

 slightly inclined slit midway between front one and snout. Interor- 

 bital convex. Hind preopercle edge rather weakly denticulated, little 

 larger denticles in young. Gill rakers i, 54-8, ii, short points, barely 

 one-fourth of filaments, which are If in eye ; pseudobranchiae large. 

 Scales ctenoid, in oblique rows crossing lateral line ; smaller on pre- 

 dorsal, along soft dorsal base and out in caudal ; both latter fins largely, 

 also soft anal, with small scales; basal radiating striae 10 to 16 ; apical 

 denticles 31 to 54 ; circuli fine ; 10 rows of cheek scales ; lateral line 

 largely concurrent with dorsal profile at first, falls until horizontal 

 close behind anal; tubes trifid or bifid. Third dorsal spine 1^ to 2 in 

 head; first anal ray 2% to 3f ; second anal spine 2^ to 2f ; second anal 

 ray 2 to 2^ ; caudal with median rays forming obtuse point behind, 1^ 

 to li; pectoral 1^ to If; ventral 1| to If. In alcohol dull brown, 

 paler below. Spinous dorsal dusted with dusky, paler dots on soft 

 dorsal. Iris slaty. Length 63 to 173 mm. 



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