308 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



(Boleling, Bali); vol. 21, 1860, p. 138 (Muntok, Banka); vol. 22, 1860, p. 



108 (Muntok). — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland., vol. 1, No. 3, 



1856, p. 4 (Manado); vol. 3, No. 5, 1857-58, p. 2 (Macassar); vol. 3, No. 



9, 1857-58, p. 6 (Siboga); vol. 8 (Sumatra), 1859, p. 12 (Benculen). 

 Teuthis dorsalis Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malay Fish.), vol. 



18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 1191 (Pinang).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 



1861, p. 318 (Pinang). — Karoli, Termesz. Ftizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, 



p. 158 (Singapore). 

 Teuthis albopunctatus (not Schlegel) GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 



3, 1861, p. 318 (part). 



Depth 2J^ to 2>^; head SJ/g to 4K, width 2 to 2}^. Snout 2}4 in 

 head; eye 3}/^ to 3;^, 13^ to 1% in snout, 1 to 13^ in interorbital; teeth 

 about 40 in each jaw; maxillary 3% to 4 in head; interorbital 2^ 

 to 33^, broadly convex; opercle and preopercle limb striate, scapular 

 arch nearly smooth. Gill rakers 4 + 18, short, cuneate points, small, 

 spinescent. 



Scales minute, ovoid, cycloid, circuli 45 to 68. Cheek with only 

 anterior half rather sparsely with small scales, much fewer and 

 anterior in young. 



D. XIII, 10, 1, fifth spine 2^ to 23^ in head, fifth ray 2)4 to 2}4; 

 A. VII, 9, 1, third spine 2 to 23^, third ray 23^ to 3,^; caudal deeply 

 forked, lobes slender and sharp, 33/^ to 3^ in combined head and 

 body; least depth of caudal peduncle 43^ to 5 in head; pectoral 134 

 to 1%; ventral 1^^ to 1^. 



Back heliotrope purple fading to gray-white below. Whole back 

 and upper surface of head finely spotted or blotched paler, mark- 

 ings more or less irregular, though ensuing reticulating areas sub- 

 equal with size of markings. Iris pale or yellowish- white. Dorsals, 

 anals and caudal pale brownish, former blotched with dusky brown 

 irregularly and rays of soft fins with brown spots; in young caudal 

 with 6 or 7 transverse deep brown bands. Pectorals pale uniform 

 yellowish. Ventrals whitish, with dusky cloudings more or less as 4 

 or 5 dusky blotches in young. 



Arabia, Natal, Madagascar, India, East Indies, Philippines. 



Our smaller examples show a tendency to longitudinal streaks on 

 lower sides, the reticulations breaking. We have compared this with 

 Schneider's figure and believe it to be the same. Giinther says "the 

 black cross-bands on the caudal fin, perhaps, have been added by 

 Bloch," but our smaller specimens show them distinctly, much as in 

 Schneider's figure. 



Day" under Teuthis oramin says "in specimens over 7 or 8 inches 

 in length . . . the white spots decrease in number and have a blue 

 tinge. The shoulder spot becomes dark, but the spot on the upper 

 edge of the eye remains. The black shoulder spot has been omitted 

 in Bl. Schneider's figure, which otherwise is not incorrect; when 



» Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 168, pi. 40, fig. 6. 



