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ang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes; Uki, Buro; Talisse Island, 

 Dutch East Indies). — Herre and Montalban Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 

 34, No. 1, Sep. 1927, p. 86, pi. 17, fig. 2 (copied). 



Depth ly^ to IM; head 2^ to 3}4, width IH to 2. Snout 2)4 to 

 Sli in head; eye 2% to 2%, slightly longer than snout or interorbital; 

 maxillary reaches opposite front nostril, to eye in young, 3^ to 3^^ in 

 head; interorbital 3% to 3;^^, broadly convex; preopercular spine 

 along upper edge 2% to 3^4- Gill rakers 4 + 11, robust, lanceolate, 

 y^ of gill filaments, which 3^ of eye. 



Scales 33 to 46 between gill opening and caudal base; 7 or 8 scales 

 above lateral line, 20 or 21 below. Scales v.ith 5 to 7 basal marginal 

 striae; apical denticles 16 to 18, each with long slender rootlet; circuli 

 fine. 



D. XIII, 16, 1 or 17, 1, last spine 13<C to IV3 in head, fifth ray Iyo 

 to 13^; A. Ill, 16, 1 or 17, I, third spine 13^ to 12,5, sixth ray 1 to 

 13^; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^5 to 23/^; caudal rounded con- 

 vexly behind, 1 to 1%; pectoral 23^ to 33^ in combined head and 

 body; ventral 23/^ to 2^. 



General color pale brown, inclining to whitish, especially below. 

 Ten seal-brown regular transverse bands, wide as interspaces and 

 extending on soft dorsal and anal. In young but 7 transverse seal- 

 brown regular bands, also equally wide as interspaces. All dark 

 bands slightly broader above. Median seal-brown front band. 

 Caudal with about 6 transverse seal-brown bands, much narrower 

 than body bands, all more or less broken variable and several of outer 

 series with appearance of spots; caudal with broad pale uniform 

 border behind. Ocular seal-brown band crosses iris, which otherwise 

 pale, below much broader than above eye and diffuse. Paired fins 

 and spinous anal whitish or uniformly pale. 



Known from the East Indies and Philippines. Our series shows 

 the species variable in color pattern, sometimes anterior bands broken 

 or irregular. In small examples a tendency to form small black 

 ocellus at apex of soft dorsal. 

 4-19 [2022] (67355 U.S.N. M., type), 4708. Port Galera, Mindoro. October 27, 



1909. Length 67 to 93 mm. 

 4825. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length 66 mm. Dark bars seal 

 brown, interspaces pale olive, become gray below; dark becomes yellow through 

 cadmium. Circumoral band yellow, tinged with cadmium above. Tips of 

 dors-.il spines and soft dorsal white, edges of incised spinous membranes black. 

 Anal posteriorly tipped with dusky; spines and membranes sulphur yellow; 

 produced rays white. Pectoral dusky hyaline with greenish tinge. 

 8886, 9661, 9662, 2016. Mabul Island. September 29, 1909. Length 72 to 85 

 mm. Ground color pearl gray, slightly paler below, crossed by bars slightly 

 wider above than below, not quite equal to orbit in widest part and about 

 equal to interspaces; bars dark brown, below merging into orange. Circum- 

 oral ring orange, snout and chin dusky; short stripe of brown between eyes; 

 ocular bar with orange below e.ve, joined at breast inunediately before ventral 

 short stripes at bases of l)r;uichiostegals; third bar from third dorsal mem- 



