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maxillary extends back slightly beyond eye, expansion 1 to l}/$ in 

 eye, length 2 to 2 J^ in head from snout tip; teeth in villiform bands 

 in jaws, with some inner front upper ones elongated and depressi- 

 ble, outer maxillary row enlarged and wide set pair of upper front 

 canines; lower teeth in 3 or 4 series anteriorly, narrowing posteriorly 

 to 2 series, also inner row longest and hinged and pair of front canines 

 closer than upper; small band of fine teeth on vomer and palatines, 

 none on tongue; interorbital 6^5 to 6%, slightly convex; preopercle 

 edge minutely serrated, with few serrae at angle trifle enlarged. 

 Gill rakers 9 + 13, lanceolate, little longer than gill filaments or 1% 

 in eye; 7 upper and 5 lower rudimentary. 



Scales 104 to 117 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 13 more 

 on latter; tubes 62 to 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 12 

 more on latter; 22 or 23 above lateral line, 35 to 38 below, 62 to 68 

 predorsal forward opposite hind nostril, 33 rows across cheek to pre- 

 opercle angle; fins all with fine scales over greater portions basally; 

 moderate patch of very small scales over upper half of maxillary. 

 Scales with 4 basal radiating striae; 25 to 48 apical denticles with 

 3 or 4 transverse series of basal elements; obsolete rugosities in young; 

 circuli fine. 



D. IX, 15, i, or 14, 1, third spine 3% to V/% in total head length, 

 eleventh ray 2\i to 2^; A. Ill, 9, 1, third spine 3*4 to 3%, seventh 

 ray 2% to 2)4', caudal 1^3 to 1%, convex behind; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2% to 2%', pectoral V/2 to 1%; ventral \% 

 to W- 



Brown or pale yellowish brown, head often darker than rest of 

 body. Some examples show head and all anterior part of body 

 finely spotted paler, spots all greater in diameter than interspaces. 

 Often chest, prepectoral and abdomen pale spots greatly larger than 

 on head and therefore fewer. Sometimes body and fins with small 

 crowded gray white spots, often ill-defined to variably distinct in 

 preserved examples. 



Arabia, Zanzibar, Delagoa Bay, Natal, Madagascar, Mauritius, 

 Seychelles, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Australia, Mela- 

 nesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Boulenger gives a maximum length of 

 540 mm. though we have no examples so large. Most of our speci- 

 mens pale and in alcohol the markings only variably distinct. 



6290, 6291. Manila market. June 12, 1908. Length 340 to 377 mm. 

 5928. Zamboanga market. May 25, 1908. Length 277 mm. 

 5989, 5996. Zamboanga market. May 26, 1908. Length 228 to 342 mm. 

 9398. Zamboanga market. September 7, 1909. Length 338 mm. 

 A800. Zamboanga market. October 9, 1909. Length 312 mm. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS URODELUS (Schneider) 



Percam urodetam (Forster) Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 333. 



St. Christina, Waitaho. 

 Perca urodeta (Forster) Lichtenstein, Descr. Animal., 1844, p. 221 (St. 



Christina). 



