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or otherwise. On mandible, lower surface of head and belly, large or 

 broad cross bands of dull rosy brown. Marginal portions of vertical 

 fins sometimes little dusky, on anal grayish or dusky slate like greater 

 portions of paired fins terminally. In young paired fins pale with 

 large dusky gray blotches. 



India, Siam, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Riu Kiu, China, 

 Japan, Queensland, Melanesia. Boulenger gives the length as 350 

 mm., much greater than any of our specimens. It may usually be 

 known by its long pectorals and large spots. 



16656. Canimo Island near Daet, east coast of Luzon. June 15, 1909. Length 



172 mm. 

 5493, 5494, 15879. Catbalogan, Samar Island. April 14, 1908. Length 184 to 



259 mm. 

 9331 to 9333. Catbalogan. April 15, 1908. Length 96 to 190 mm. 

 5530, 6711. Catbalogan. April 16, 1908. Length 120 to 244 mm. 

 15489. Cebu market. March 26, 1909. Length 228 mm. (1484). 

 8858. Daet beach, Canimo Island, east coast of Luzon. June 15, 1909. Length 



266 mm. 

 6102, 6952, 6955. Iloilo market, Iloilo, Panay Island. May 31, 1908. Length 



122 to 225 mm. 

 11767, 11768. Iloilo market. June 2, 1908. Length 195 to 206 mm. 

 5212. Manila market. June 11, 1908. Length 134 mm. 

 17936. Manila market, June 13, 190S. Length 197 mm. 

 19618. Mansalay, Mindoro Island. June 4, 1908. Length 73 mm. 

 12757. North end of Endeavor Strait, northwest coast of Palawan Island. 



December 22, 1908. Length 111 mm. 

 6612. Northwest point Verde Island, vicinity southern Luzon. July 22, 1908. 



Length 230 mm. 

 5941. Zamboanga market. May 26, 1908. Length 243 mm. 

 One example. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 32 mm. 

 6698. Kowloon market, China. September 18, 1908. Length 272 mm. 

 11666. Kowloon market. October 5, 1908. Length 123 mm. 



SERRANUS FASCIATOMACULATUS Peters 



Serranus fasciatomaculatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865, p. Ill 

 (on 2 examples said to be reported in Bleeker's fourth contribution to Japan, 

 p. 8). 



Depth 3}/ 8 to 334; head 2]/ 2 to 2%, width 2K to 2%. Snout Qi 

 to 1% in head; eye 434 to 43^, subequal with snout, greater than 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, to hind pupil 

 edge in young, expansion \% to 2 in eye, length 2}/$ to 2}4> in head; 

 teeth fine, in rather narrow bands in jaws, biserial along sides of 

 mandible with inner row longer and depressible ; pair of small canines 

 in front of each jaw, often double; narrow bands of fine teeth on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 734 to 83^5, nearly level; hind pre- 

 opercle edge denticulate, with enlarged serrae little above angle; 

 opercular spines 3, equidistant, upper little advanced. Gill rakers 

 8+14, lanceolate, 13^2 in gill filaments, which one-half of eye; five 

 above and five below rudimentary. 



