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21999. Near mouth of Tayabas River, Luzon. February 25, 1909. Length 88 

 mm. 



19465. Ragay River tidal, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. Length 97 

 mm. 



14972, 14978. Refugio Island, Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 59 

 to 100 mm. (1265, 1204). Olive with light brown red spots, lower surface 

 paler. Smaller example with five downward and forward directed dusky bars, 

 equal to interspaces; first passes through pectoral base and last across caudal 

 peduncle. Dusky stripe in front of cheek under flap of maxillary. Spots of 

 side of head behind eye and below almost form stripes in younger. Fins with 

 lemon yellow shades on soft portion, spots blackish. Pectoral spotted only 

 on base and on upper rays; none in smaller example. Ventrals immaculate. 



19448, 22326. River at Pasacao, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 88 to 101 

 mm. 



6317. San Roque market. June 27, 1908. Length 217 mm. 



8297. Sorsogon market, Luzon. March 12, 1909. Length 437. 



5475. Tacloban market, Leyte. April 12, 1908. Length 312 mm. 



7679. Ulugan Bay, Palawan. December 28, 1908. Length 278 mm. 



7820. Ulugan Bay near Bahcli River mouth, Palawan. December 28, 1908. 

 Length 77 mm. 



6083, 6084. Zamboanga market. May 29, 1908. Length 278 to 322 mm. 



6846. Kowloon market, China. October 21, 1908. Length 233 mm. 



Genus ANYPERODON Giinther 



Anyperodon Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 95. Type 



Serranus leucogrammicus Valenciennes, monotypic. 

 Anhyperodon Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 269. 



Type Serranus leucogrammicus Valenciennes. 



Body compressed, elongate. Eye small. Mouth large, protractile. 

 Maxillary exposed, with supplemental bone. Teeth in jaws in broad 

 villiform bands, inner movable, depressible, hinged at bases; small 

 upper front canines present; teeth on vomer but none on palatines 

 or tongue. Opercle with 3 spines. Preopercle edge finely serrated. 

 Gill membranes separate. Gill rakers long. Pseudobranchiae pres- 

 ent. Branchiostegals 7. Scales very small, ctenoid. Head entirely 

 scaly. Lateral line complete, tubes straight or directed upward. 

 Vertebrae 24, of which 14 caudal. Dorsal with 11 spines and 14 or 

 15 rays. Anal short, spines 3, rays 8 or 9. Caudal rounded. 

 Pectoral symmetrical, rounded, rays 16 or 17. Ventral below pecto- 

 ral, fins close together, spine strong. 



Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. 



ANYPERODON LEUCOGRAMMICUS (Valenciennes) 



Serranus leucogrammicus (Reinwardt) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 2, 1828, p. 347. Moluccas and Seychelles. 



Anyperodon leucogrammicus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 96 (Amboina). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 1 (Zanzibar 

 and Seychelles); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 846 (Seychelles). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 28 (Singapore, 

 Java, Flores, Timor, Ternate, Amboina). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagas- 

 car, Poiss., 1891, p. 83, pi. 7, fig. 4. — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische 



