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apparent on chin or lips. Iris dark olive green to brown, included with dark 

 area on top of head. Dorsal pale orange, lemon yellow on posterior base. Anal 

 orange, spinous portion very pale; blue stripes and spots on sides of spines, 

 these spots fusing into blotches and stripes along anal base. Lower part of 

 caudal peduncle bluish drab. Caudal like dorsal, lemon yellow on caudal 

 peduncle and base of crotch, both with blue spots. Pectoral dusky lemon 

 yellow. Ventral very pale with slight orange tinge on front of spines. 



5825. Tataidaga Point. May 15, 1908. Length 255 mm. 



15426, 15427. Ulugan Bay near Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length 180 

 to 192 mm. 



A684. Bumbum Island. September 25, 1; 09. Length 237 mm. 



21324. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 94 mm. 



A1407. Tampotana Island. December 21, 1909. Length 248 mm. 



84241 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. Fred Baker. Two examples. Length 183 

 to 188 mm. 



SIGANUS SUTOR (Valenciennes) 



Amphacanthus sutor Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p. 148. 



Seychelles, Burbon, Malabar. — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genoot. (Nal. 



Ichth. Bengal), vol. 25, 1853, p. 48. 

 Teuthis sutor GiJyiTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 317 (copied). — 



Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1866, p. 126; Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 



167 (Playfair's example). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. 80, Heft 1. 1879, p. 393 (Port Darwin).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 



2, 1889, p. 91. fig. 42.— Satjvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, 



p. 289. 

 Siganus sutor Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, p. 13 (Guam). 

 Buro brunneus (Commerson) Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1802, pp. 



421. 422. 

 Teuthis margaritifera (not Valenciennes) Playpair, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1867, p. 855 (Seychelles). 



Depth 2ys to 2K ; head 3% to 4, width 2 to 23^. Snout 2 to 2^ in 

 head; eye 2}/^ to 4^, 1 to 2}/^ in snout, 1^ in interorbital to greater 

 than interorbital in young; teeth about 32 to 36 in each jaw; maxillary 

 35^ to 4 in head; interorbital 2J^ to 3 1^, broadly convex; opercle, pre- 

 opercle limb, scapular arch and suborbitals striated finely, with opercle 

 and suborbital nearly smooth in young. Gill rakers 5 + 16, short, 

 weak, cuneate points. 



Scales minute, ovoid, circuli 70 to 120. Cheek covered with small 

 scales, present also in young. 



D. XIII, 10, 1, fifth spine 1% to 2 in head, fifth ray 1% to 1%; 

 A. VII, 9, I, third spine iVe to 2, third ray 13^ to 2, caudal emarginate 

 in young, becoming deeply forked with slender pointed lobes with age, 

 upper slightly longer, 2% to 3^ in combined head and body, though 

 shorter than head in young; least depth of caudal peduncle 33^ to 4 

 in head; pectoral 1}^ to 13^; ventral 13^ to 1%. 



Back gray-brown, also upper surface of head. Whole head and 

 body with very numerous thick-set gray-white spots, with age larger 

 than reticulating darker interspaces though much more numerous, 

 smaller and crowded on sides of abdomen and belly. Thus in young 

 but 2 or 3 rows of pale spots on cheek, with age 6 or 7. Also on trunk 



