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A462. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length 275 mm. 



11689. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. Length 153 mm. 



A1513, A1514. Birabirahan Island, Borneo. December 31, 1909. Length 262: 

 to 300 mm. 



A715. Si Ami] Island. September 27, 1909. Length 257 mm. 



A1473. Kait Point, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 287 mm.. 



A892. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 264 mm. Ground, 

 color slate bluish on fading. Numerous small round bronzed spots about size 

 of number 8 shot cover top and back of head as well as body except breast 

 and belly, fusing more or less into stripes on cheek and lower opercle and 

 blotches somewhat on back anteriorly. Dorsal and anal olivaceous or dusky 

 on rays, membranes hyaline. Caudal more or less purplisli. Pectorals very 

 pale hyaline straw. Ventrals slate or gray, like body. 



SIGANUS ROSTRATUS (Valenciennes) 



Amphacanthus rostratus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 10, 1835, p.. 



158. Massauah, Red Sea. — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol.. 



21, 1871, p. 503 (type). 

 Teuthis rostrata Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 50, pi. 10, fig. 2 



(Zanzibar). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, 



p. 89, pi. 60 (Pelew Islands, Society Islands, Gilbert Islands). — Klunzin— 



ger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 76. — Steindachner, Denks. Akad. Wiss.. 



Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 71, 1907, p. 140 (Gischin, South Arabia) . 

 Siganus rostratus Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 27, 1907 



(1908), p. 271 (Fuga).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 



511 (Okinawa).— Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, 



p. 58 (Zamboanga). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1923, p* 



42 (Madagascar); Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, p. 34 (Samoa). 

 Teuthis oligostictvs Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 58, 1868, pp. 30, 



345, pi. 7, fig. 23. Kanathia, Viti Islands, Fiji. 

 Teuthis vitianus Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, vol. 6, ser. 7, 1882, p. 



173. Fiji. 

 Siganus fuscescens (not Houttuyn) Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 33, 1907, p. 247 (Zamboanga). — Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem.. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, No. 7, 1911, p. 313 (Kusaie, Caroline Islands). — 



Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 511 (Okinawa, Riu Kiu). 

 Siganus punctatus (not Schneider) Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem^ 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, No. 7, p. 313 (Makemo, Paumotus). 



Depth 2}4 to 2%; head 4K to 4^, width 1% to V/s. Snout 2% to- 

 2f4 in head; eye 3 to 3%, \}/i to 1^ in snout, 1 to ly^ in interorbita] ; 

 about 30 teeth in each jaw; maxillary 3% to 3% in head; interor- 

 bital 2% to 3; opercle, preopercle limb and humeral arch with rather 

 feeble striae. Gill rakers 6 + 20, short, flexible. 



Scales very minute, ovoid elongate, cycloid, circuli about 30 to 35. 

 Cheek entirely naked, or with only small patch of scales behind max- 

 illary or sometimes a few scattered scales in young. 



D. XIII, 10, I, fourth spine \% to 2}i in head, third ray 1% to 2;. 

 A. VII, 9, I, third spine IJ^ to 2}/^, second ray 2)^ to 3; caudal, 

 deeply emarginate, lobes sharply pointed and upper longer, 33^ to 

 3% in combined head and body; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 ta 

 5 in head; pectoral \}/i to l}/^', ventral 13^ to 1%. 



