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pi. 42, fig. 2.— Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 58 

 (Singapore), p. 690 (Wahai), p. 718 (Tandjong Berikat at Koba, Banka), 

 p. 741 (Boeloekomba); vol. 7, 1854, p. 361 (Batjan); vol. 8, 1855, p. 393 

 (Amboina); vol. 9, 1855, p. 259 (Siboga); vol. 10, 1856, p. 347 (Rio, Bin- 

 tang); vol. 12, 1856, p. 214 (Nias); vol. 13, 1857, p. 284 (Tjirutjup, Bili- 

 ton); vol. 15, 1858, p. 200 (Gorain); vol. 18, 1859, p. 360 (Blinju, Banka); 

 Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Nal. Ichtb. Bengal), vol. 25, 1853, p. 38.— 

 Peters, Arch. Naturg., 1855, p. 247 (Mozambique). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. 

 Ind. Neerland., vol. 1, No. 3, 1856, p. 7 (Macassar); vol. 2, No. 7, 1857, 

 p. 5 (Amboina). 

 Monodactylus rJiomheua Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malay 

 Fish.), vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849 (1S50), p. 1154 (Pinang, Malaysia, Singapore).— 

 Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 240 (Obi). 



Depth 1% to IH; head 2% to 3, width 1% to 2. Snout 4 to 4^ 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 2%, greater than snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young to equal to interorbital with age; maxil- 

 lary reaches beyond front eye edge, or to front pupil edge in adult, 

 2% to 33^ in head; interorbital 2}/^ to 3, broadly convex. Gill rakers 

 6 + 22, lanceolate, l}4. hi gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Tubes 53 to 65 in lateral line to caudal base; 14 or 15 scales above 

 lateral hne to soft dorsal origin, 44 or 45 below. Scales with 2 basal 

 radiating striae in young, disappearing with age; about 30 apical 

 denticles in young, largely disappearing with age or becoming very 

 minute and irregular; circuli basal, 42 to 50. 



D. VIII, 29, 1 to 31, 1, last spine IJ^ to 3 in total head length, second 

 branched ray 1 to 1%; A. Ill, 28, i to 30, i, third spine \y^ to 1%, 

 second branched ray 2 to 33^3 in combined head and body; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3 in head; caudal emarginate, 2)4 to 

 2 4^; pectoral 13/^ to 1%. 



Back brown, below whitish, everywhere with brilliant silvery 

 white reflections. Iris pale on silvery white. Fins all pale brownish, 

 soft dorsal and anal lobes duslw brown terminally. In young deep 

 brov.ai band narrow from occiput joining its fellow, then down across 

 middle of eye to cheek, where little wider. Second vertical brown 

 line, usually diffuse from side of predorsal down along hind edge of 

 opercle across pectoral base to anal origin. In very small examples 

 tail contrasted white. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Iviauritius, Rodriguez, Madagascar, 

 India, Ceylon, East Indies, China, Philippines, Queensland, New South 

 Wales, Polynesia. Abundant in collections. According to Day it is 

 silvery v/ith purplish reflections and the back yellovvish green, fading 

 leaden. Caudal j^ellow with black narrov/ posterior edge and paired 

 fins colorless. In preserved examples we find the dark vertical bands 

 indistinct or absent. 



14028. Baganga Bay, Mindanao. May 13, 1908. 5 examples. Length 63 to 

 175 mm. 



