128 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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

 to 2^ in head; eye 2% to 3^, IK to 13^ in snout, greater than 

 interorbital in young to nearly equal with age; maxillary 3^ to % 

 in snout, 33^ to 4 in head; interorbital 3}^ to 4, broadly convex. 

 Gill rakers 4+ 12, short points, 3^^ of gill filaments, which 1}/^ in eye. 



Scales 22 to 26 between gill opening and caudal base; tubes 30 to 

 35 in lateral line; 5 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below. Scales 

 with 16 to 24 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 101 to 185, with 

 8 to 14 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XII or XIII, 21, I or 22, i, fourth spine 13^ to 1% in head, 

 eighth ray 13.^ to 1%; A. Ill, 16, i or 17, i, third spine 13^^ to 1%, 

 third ray Iyo to 13^; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 33^; caudal 

 1% to 13^, hind edge straight; pectoral 13^ to 13^; ventral 1 to 13^. 



Brown, paler below and on tail and posterior vertical fins. Median 

 enlarged scales of body each with dusky border and large grayish or 

 pale spot, whole pattern reticulate; bounded forward by uniform scales 

 on predorsal and breast; bounded posteriorly by somewhat contrasted 

 uniform pale area on hind part of tail, line of demarcation arched from 

 ends of soft dorsal rays down and back to ends of longest anal rays. 

 Black saddlelike ocellus on predorsal medially, border whitish. Black 

 vertical band from occiput to eye, narrowed below eye across cheek, but 

 not reaching gill opening; above eye band with white bordering line in 

 front and behind. Soft dorsal and anal edged white, with black 

 submarginal line. Hind caudal edge gray, then narrow submargin 

 pale yellowish crescent with front edge with brown bordering line; 

 fin with median broad and very pale brown crescent, base light 

 yellowish. Paired fins uniformlj^ pale brown. 



Red Sea, Mauritius, Ceylon, East Indies, Melanesia, Polynesia. 

 Known by its greatly enlarged median scales of the body, darkh' 

 reticulated. 



792, 9654 [1630], 9655 [1633]. Agojo Point, Catanduanes Island. June 10, 1909. 



Length 92 to 98 mm. 

 854, 855. Atulayan Island. June 18, 1909. Length 84 to 95 mm. 

 920. Balikias Bay, Lubang. July 17, 1908. Length 85 mm. 

 167. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length 110 mm. 

 21584, 21585. Guiniyan Island. June 4, 1909. Length 56 to 84 mm. 

 3632. Maribojoc Bay, Bohol Island. March 26, 1909. Length 99 mm. 

 608, 609, 1093, 1228. Murcielagos Bay. August 9, 1909. Length 87 to 100 mm. 

 8225. Murcielagos Bay. August 20, 1909. Length 103 mm. 

 4858. Murcielagos Bay. August 21, 1909. Length 64 mm. 

 383 to 386. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 95 to 101 mm. 

 10405. Northwest of Verde Island. July 22, 1908. Length 105 mm. 

 737, 20567. Opol, Mindanao Island. August 4, 1909. Length 102 to 108 mm. 

 626. Port Banalacan, Marinduque. February 23, 1909. Length 101 mm. 

 707, 732. Port Galcra, Mindoro. June 9, 1908. Length 106 to 113 mm. 

 4814. Port Galera. October 27, 1909. Length 108 mm. 

 782, 783. Port Matalvi. November 23. 1908. Length 95 mm. 



