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pale with 5 or 6 dark gray transverse bands, usually faded in large 

 specimens or only marginal above and below. Pectoral pale or light 

 brown, uniform. Ventrals more or less gray-white to whitish, usually 

 with several deep or dusky-brown blotches. 



India, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan. Similar to Siganus 

 oramin in the elongate body, but with fine white spots usually 

 sharply defined and the caudal fin less forked. We follow Giinther 

 in the statement: "No brown spot on the shoulder." Day says "a 

 dark oval shoulder mark" and also figures the same. We find it 

 largely or usually in the young of our specimens though seldom in 

 large examples. Our materials are very variable; often the entire 

 general color may be clouded with darker, sometimes even with dusky 

 spots here and there or between the white ones. In young examples 

 the vertical fins are frequently speckled with dusky. 



One example. Atulayan Bay, Luzon. June 17, 1909. Length 41 mm. 



20133. Bacoor, Luzon market. June 15, 1908. Length 108 mm. 



20487. Bataan Island, tide pool. June 5, 1909. Length 34 to 44 mm. Two 



examples. 

 One example. Bataan Island, tide pool. July 22, 1909. Length 20 mm. 

 6776. Beach at viUage near Chase Head, Endeavor Strait, Palawan Island. 



December 22, 1908. Length 218 mm. 

 Eleven examples. Below mouth of Mindanao River, Cotabato, Mindanao. 



May 20, 1908. Length 43 to 72 mm. 

 20588. Bohol Island. April 9, 1908. Length 62 mm. 

 18477, 19769. Bolalo Bay, Palawan Island. December 21, 1908. Length 50 



to 143 mm. 

 5669, 5672, 5677. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. April 23, 1908. Length 240 



to 255 mm. 

 11707, 11708. Cagayan, Sulu Island. January 8, 1908. Length 208 to 240 mm. 

 20262. Cataingan Bay, Masbate. April 18, 1908. Length 50 to 128 mm. 



Three examples. 

 16956, 16957. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length 198 to 200 mm. 

 17485, 22206. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf. March 11, 1909. Length 46 to 



165 mm. Six examples. 

 5997 [742]. Cavite market. December 1, 1908. Length 109 mm. 

 12815, 12816. Cavite and San Roque markets. June 27, 1908. Length 106 to 



119 mm. 

 5314, 18361, 18362. Cebu market. April 4, 1908. Length 126 to 244 mm. 

 7548 to 7550, 7552 to 7555, 10684, 10685, 12883, 12884. Cotabato, Mindanao. 



May 20, 1908. Length 80 to 143 mm. 

 Ten examples. Cotabato, below mouth of Mindanao River, Mindanao. May 



20, 1908. Length 45 to 103 mm. 

 5841, 21344, 22876, 22878. Davao, Mindanao. May 16, 1908. Length 31 to 



215 mm. 

 Ten examples. 20586, 20587. East side Tagbilaran Strait, Bohol Island. 



April 9, 1908. Length 56 to 62 mm. 

 17004, 17015. Galvaney Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 



108 to 122 mm. 

 13814, 13815. Guijulugan, Negros Island. April 2, 1908. Nineteen examples. 



Length 24 to 153 mm. 



