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Back brown, sides and below paler to light, with silvery white 

 reflections. Sides with 7 rather diffuse longitudinal dark bands, wide 

 as interspaces which appear well contrasted and following along 

 junctures of scales. Opercle with diffuse neutral dusky or gray shade. 

 Iris pale yellowish-white. Spinous dorsal with terminal half blackish. 

 Soft dorsal with grayish terminally, each membrane from base with 

 4 or 5 whitish spots and subbasal dark basal area darker or dusky. 

 Caudal grayish terminally. Anal whitish with several rows of deep 

 brown spots subbasally. Paired fins uniformly pale. 



India, East Indies, Philippines. 



2645 (D. 5381). Corregidor Light, S. 89° W., 7.2 miles (14° 24' 15" N., 120° 

 41' 30" E.), Manila Bay, Luzon. In 12 fathoms. February 8, 1909. Length 

 84 to 121 mm. (1137). 3 examples. General color dusky brown, darker 

 on head, lighter below, with metallic tints. Upper part of spinous dorsal 

 blackish. Row of dusky brown spots near bases of second dorsal membranes 

 and other less distinct spots of same color scattered over membranes further 

 out. Blotches composed of very fine blackish spots in the membranes of the 

 anal and outer part of anal membranes and rays yellowish. Caudal mem- 

 branes dusky. Pectoral rosy hyaline. Ventral margins white. 



Five examples. Manila market. December 4, 1908. Length 104 to 126 mm. 



4523. Manila market. December 12, 1907. Length 113 mm. Body silvery, 

 with lines of zigzag stripes. First dorsal white, with black spot. Second 

 dorsal with several irregular lines of spots. Caudal dusky posteriorly. Anal 

 plain pale yellow. Pectoral dirty white. Ventral yellowish. 



1726. (D. 5208.) Taratara Island, S. 53° W., 1.8 miles (11° 45' 25" N., 124° 

 18' 05" E.), off western Samar. In 20 fathoms. April 14, 1908. Length 

 115 mm. 



Genus MIONORUS Krefft 



Mionorus Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 942. Type Mionorus 

 lunalus Krefft, monotypic. 



Eye less than snout, equals interorbital. Mouth cleft oblique. 

 Teeth all villiform, without canines, on vomer and palatines, tongue 

 smooth. Preopercle ridge and edge entire. Opercle with spine. 

 Branchiostegals 7. Scales moderate, 30 in lateral line. Two dor- 

 sals, first with 6 spines, second with spine and 9 rays. Anal with 

 2 spines and 8 or 9 rays. Caudal truncate. 



MIONORUS MYDRUS Jordan and Seale 



Mionorus mydrus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, 

 p. 778, fig. 4. Negros; Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 17 

 (Manila). 



Mionurus bombonesis Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 26, 1925, p. 341, 

 pi. 1. Lake Taal, Laguna de Bombom, Batangas Province, Luzon. 



Depth 23^; head 2 34, width 2^. Snout b% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 2% in head, greater than snout, subequal with interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches opposite eye center, expansion 3 in eye, length 2}/$ 

 in head from snout tip; teeth minute, uniform, in narrow bands in 



