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Ground color pale brown. Nine longitudinal dark brown bands, 

 slightly narrower than pale interspaces; in many specimens, especially 

 smaller ones more or less alternately paler where often little narrower, 

 especially so on head; above lateral line dark bands follow longitu- 

 dinally at scale junctures, but below lateral line extend midway over 

 scale exposures. Young often with contrasted median blackish spot 

 at caudal base, often size of pupil, usually with age whole base of 

 caudal fin becoming diffuse dark brown, even extending out on upper 

 and lower caudal edges as narrowly dusky. Iris whitish, except as 

 crossed by dark lateral band extending from side of snout. Fins all 

 pale except dusky brown spinous dorsal, which darker terminally. 

 Front edges of soft dorsal and anal little darker than rest of fin. 

 Pectoral pale, base brown and axil pale or dark. Ventrals dusky, 

 variably paler in some examples. 



Red Sea, Arabia, East Africa, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Reunion, Mad- 

 agascar, India, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, Polynesia. 



15158, 16293. Alibijaban Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon Island. March 6, 1909. 



Length 78 to 83 mm. 

 23491. Balikias Bay, Lubang, southern Luzon. July 14, 1908. Length 90 mm. 

 17028. Bisucay Island, near Cuyo, Cuyo Islands. April 9, 1909. Length 163 



mm. 

 7489. Bolalo Bay, Palawan. April 22, 1908. Length 128 mm. 

 23061, 24095, 24096. Bolalo Bay. December 21, 1908. Length 58 to 92 mm. 

 8875. Buang Bay, Talajit Island. March 15, 1909, Length 145 mm. 

 14804, 15557, 15559. Bugsuk Island, Balabac. January 5, 1909. Length 92 



to 104 mm. 

 17849, 17850. Bumbum Island, vicinity of Jolo. September 15, 1909. Length 



101 to 103 mm. 

 208. Busin harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length 90 mm. 

 16776, 16803. Busin Harbor. March 7, 1909. Length 78 to 95 mm. 

 7485, 23571, 23574. Busin Harbor. April 22, 1908. Length 90 to 140 mm. 

 16411. Cagayan Island, Jolo Sea. March 31, 1909. Length 203 mm. 

 14249. Candaraman Island, North Balabac Strait. January 4, 1909. Length 



63 mm. 

 17068, 23090 to 23092, 24093. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 11, 



1909. Length 73 to 132 mm. 6 examples. 

 15078, 15088, 15090, 15093, 15095, 15097. Capulaan Bay, Pagbilao Island. 



February 24, 1909. Length 61 to 86 mm. 

 11842, 23647, 23648. Caracaran, Batan Island. June 8, 1909. Length 79 to 154 



mm. 

 6 examples. Cataingan Bay, Masbate Island. April 18, 1908. Length 46 to 



83 mm. 

 24055. Cataingan Bay. April 17, 1908. Length 62 mm. 



7982 to 8008, 8497. Catbalogan, Samar. April 16, 1908, Length 84 to 160 mm 

 12257. Caxisigan Island, north Balabac Strait. January 2, 1909. Length 165 



mm. 

 17723, 17725. Cuyo, Cuyo Island. April 9, 1909. Length 160 to 192 mm. 

 23493 to 23495, 23074 to 23076. Endeavor Strait, northwest coast of Palawan. 



December 22, 1908. Length 66 to 108 mm. 15 examples. 

 132, 133, 15743, 16310 to 16313, 16317 to 16319. Endeavor Strait. December 23, 



1908. Length 66 to 105 mm. 



