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p. 15; vol. 26 (Nal. Ichth. Jap.), 1857, pp. 5, 106 (Nagasaki); Nat. Tijds. 

 Nederland. Indie, vol. 20, 1859-60, p. 235 (Nagasaki).— Martens, Preuss. 

 Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 394 (Yokohama). 



"Teuthis fuscescens Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 321 

 (copied). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, p. 31 (Manila 

 Bay).— Kltjnzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, Heft 1, 1879, p. 

 393 (Queensland). — KXroli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 

 158 (Canton, Yokohama, Singapore). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. KL, vol. 48, 1884, p. 25 

 (Tokyo).— Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl. vol. 1, 1910, p. 

 50 (Yokohama, Aburatsubu). 



:Siganus fuscescens Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 

 1902, p. 560 (Tokyo, Yokohama, Misaki, Wakanoura, Kobe, Onomichi, 

 Hakuta, Kawatana, Nagasaki). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 

 26, 1906 (1907), p. 35 (Cavite; Panay). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 98 (Bacon, Jolo).— Seale, Philip- 

 pine Journ Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 284 (Sandakan, Borneo). — 

 Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 423 (Tokyo, Shimizu), 

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

 1922, p. 58 (Cebu, Philippines). — Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 

 1925, p. 13 (Guam); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 287 

 (Santa Maria, Vigan, Calapan). 



Teuthis albopunctatr/s (not Schlegel) Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 88 (Pelew Islands, Howland Island). 



Depth 2% to 23^; head 3}/^ to 4 1^, width 2 to 23/^. Snout 2}i 

 ■to 2}^ m head; eye 2'J/g to S}i, 1}^ to 13/^ in snout, equals or greater 

 ■than interorbital; teeth about 38 to 40 in each jaw; maxillary 33 3 to 



4 in head; interorbital 3 to 33/8, broadly convex; preopercle limb, 

 opercle and scapular arch with fine, inconspicuous striae. Gill rakers 



5 + 17, short, small, cuneate points. 



Scales very minute, ovoid, cycloid, circuli 50 to 60. Cheek usually 

 with but a very few small scattered scales, frequently entirely naked. 



D. XIII, 10, 1, fifth spine 13^ to 2 in head, third ray 1^ to 2; A. 

 YII, 9, I, third spine 1% to 23^, thu-d ray 23/^ to 2%; caudal deeply 

 emarginate, 33^ to 3^ in combined head and body; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3J^ to 4% in head; pectoral 13^ to 13^; ventral 

 iVs to 13^. 



Back and upper surfaces ecru-drab to dull brown, below gray- 

 white to white. Back and head above and sides, also sides of body 

 variably though finely spotted with whitish, and spots always smaller 

 in size than dark interspaces. Frequently spots much smaller about 

 ■edge of back. Often lower surface may be dusky, especially in 

 small examples, when spots are much larger than on flanks or back. 

 None of spots extend on fins. Iris pale or yellowish-white. Most 

 examples, especially darker ones, show 2 or 3 dark transverse bars or 

 bands across chin or lower surface of head. No distinct dark humeral 

 or shoulder blotch. Fins all pale or very light brownish. Spinous 

 dorsal with irrregular brownish cloudings which on soft fin confined 

 :to rays as several brown blotches to each. Anals similar. Caudal 



