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Teuthis albopunctatus (not Schlegel) Alleyne and Macleat, Proc. Linn, 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 1, 1877, p. 338 (Cape Grenville). — Macleat, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 1881, p. 443 (on Gunther). — 

 Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 286. 



Siganus consohrinus Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 1. 1912, p. 54, pi. 

 13. Moreton Bay. 



Known chiefly by its color which olivaceous with several irregular, 

 diffuse, yellowish longitudinal Hues and difl^use brownish cross bands. 

 Body and fins often clouded or spotted with darker. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodriguez, Natal, East 

 Indies, Philippines, Queensland, New South Wales, Micronesia. 



SIGANUS TETRAZONUS (Bleeker) 



Am'phacanthus tetrazona Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol, 8, 1855, 



p. (436) 441. Manado, Celebes. 

 Teuthis tetrazona Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 323 



(copied). 

 Siganus tetrazonus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 



p. 35 (Manila). 



Yellow, with 4 pairs of undulated brownish bands across back. 



SIGANUS DOLIATUS (Valenciennes) 



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

 132. Buru and Vanicolo; Regne Animal Cuvier, Poiss., 111. 1839, pi. 71, 

 fig. 1 (Moluccas). — Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, 1853, 

 p. (596) 605 (Ternate); vol. 7, 1854, p. 361 (Batjan).— Kner, Reise 

 Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 209 (Pujuipat Island). 



Siganus doliatus Guerin, Iconogr. Poiss., 1829-44, pi. 35, fig. 1 (Buru). 



Teuthis doliata Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 323 (copied); 

 • Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 90 (New Hebrides, 

 Pelew Islands, Fiji, Ponape). — Meyer, An. Soc. Espafiola, Hist. Nat, 

 Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 21 (Rubi, New Guinea). 



Depth 2 to 2J^; head 3% to 3^, width 2 to ly^. Snout 2 to 

 2yo in head; eye 3 to 3%, 1% to 1^ in snout, 1 to 13^^ in interorbital; 

 teeth about 40 in each jaw; maxillary 3 to 3^ in head; interorbital 2J^ 

 to 2J^, broadly convex; preorbital, preopercle limb, opercle and 

 scapular arch striate. Gill rakers 5 + 17, short, bifid cuneate. 



Scales small, ovate, cycloid, circuli fine though rather imperfect, 

 30 to 40. Cheek largely covered with small scales. 



D. XIII, 10, I, fifth spine \% to 1% in head, fourth ray \}4 to 

 \]/2', A. VII, 9, I, third spine \% to \%, third ray 1% to 1^; cau- 

 dal emarginated moderately or lunate, 33^ to 33^ in combined head 

 and body; least depth of caudal peduncle 3^ to 3^ in head; pec- 

 toral ItV to li/g; ventral 1% to \%. 



Back brown, pale or light grayish below. Head above with ver- 

 miculate bluish lines, often transverse across front and sometimes 

 may extend on opercle below; usually on opercle oblique blue lines 

 all sloping backward toward gill-opening. On side of breast number 

 of longitudinal gray lines. On side about 30 vertical blue fines all 



