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of which 14 caudal. Scales very small, cycloid. Head entirely scaly. 

 Lateral line complete, extends on caudal; tubes straight or directed 

 upwards. Dorsal with 10 spines, rays 18, spinous part nearly long 

 as soft. Anal spines 3, rays 10, fins short. Caudal rounded. Pec- 

 toral rays 17 or 18, symmetrical, rounded. Ventral with strong spine, 

 below pectoral, fins close together. 



Indian and western tropical Pacific Oceans. 



CROMILEPTES ALTIVELIS (Valenciennes) 



Serranus altivelis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 324, pi. 

 35. Java. — Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 230 (copied). — 

 Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fish., 1850, p. 10 (PinangSea). — Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 152 (East Indies, China, Port Essing- 

 ton). — Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 (Singa- 

 pore). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, 

 p. 8 (Macassar, South Celebes; Cebu). — Gorgoza, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. 

 Nat., Madrid, vol. 17, 1888, p. 282 (Manila Bay; Nasugbu, Batangas). — 

 Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1,1895, p. 463 (Luzon, Manila Bay, Cavite, 

 Santa Cruz, Nasugbu, Batangas). — (Regan) Bedot, Rev. Suisse Zool., 

 vol. 17, 1909, p. 169 (Amboina). 



Cromileptes altivelis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, p. 201 

 (name only). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 30 (Singapore, Pinang, Bintang, Java, Duizend Islands, Celebes, Batjan, 

 Amboina). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 9, pi. 1, fig. 2 (Nicobars). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (44) 322, fig. 3 — 

 Day, Fauna Brit. Ind., vol. 1, 1889, p. 441, fig. 139. — Bottlenger, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895 p. 271 (Cebu, China, Pinang, Macassar, East 

 Indies, Port Essington). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 28, 1905, p. 781 (Negros); Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 19 

 (Manila).— Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 

 p. 78 (Bacon).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 206 

 (Gisser Island and Elat, High Key). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 vol. 2, 1913, p. 90 (Darnley Island and Cairns Reef); vol. 6, 1918, p. 100 

 (Moreton Bay). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 

 1922, p. 29 (Cebu). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 2}(o to 2%. Snout 4 to 

 53^ in head from snout tip; eye A.% to 7}i, l}4 to 1% in snout, 

 greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite middle of eye, 

 expansion 1)4 to 1% in eye, length 2% to 2% in head from snout 

 tip; teeth villiform, in rather wide bands, in young inner row in each 

 jaw slightly longer, present on vomer and palatines but none on 

 tongue; interorbital 7 to 7% in head from snout tip, nearly level; 

 hind preopercle edge denticulate, with 2 points at angle little enlarged, 

 become small with age; opercular spines 3, median nearer lower and 

 most posterior. Gill rakers 6 + 14, low knobs half of gill filaments, 

 which 13^ in eye. 



Scales 74 to 100 in lateral line to caudal base and 12 to 20 more on 

 latter; tubes 44 to 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to 7 more 

 on latter; 21 to 24 scales above, 34 to 37 below, 80 to 90 predorsal; 



