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Cuvier compares his Pempherls vanlcolensis with Russell's Man- 

 gula kutti and says it has the same colors, red coppery on the body, 

 fins yellowish, no dark pectoral spot though a black spot at the apex 

 of the dorsal. D. VI, 9. A. Ill, 40. Length 180 mm. 



Bleeker's figure of Peiri'pheris vanicoletisis shows scales along lat- 

 eral line 53 + IT, the anal without a dark margin and but 5 rows of 

 scales on the cheek, though of these 2 rows are on the infraorbital. 



Pempheris nesogaUica Cuvier is noted with the dorsal black 

 apically, chest silvery and not coppery as over rest of body, fins yel- 

 lowish and caudal apparentlv without blackish border. D. VI, 9. A. 

 Ill, 38. Length 127 mm. 



9213. Camp Overton, Mindanao. August 6, 1909. Length 159 mm. 

 22256. Canimo Island near Daet. June 15, 1909. Length 158 mm. 

 11380, 11381. Mahinog, Camiguiu Island. August 3, 1909. Length 171 to 184 



mm. Smaller example damaged. 

 22215. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length 132 mm. 

 7075 [1755]. San Roque, Leyte. July 29, 1909. Length 124 mm. Usual 

 bronzj color. Dorsal tip with black blotch. Raised front of anal black, 

 color continued as marginal line on low fin; rays orange red. Caudal 

 blackish. Pectoral yellow, dusky at base. 

 6377. Santo Domingo de Basco, Batan. November 7, 1908. Length 196 mm. 

 14144. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island, Dutch East Indies. December 10, 1909. Length 



175 mm. 

 14.0M, 18189. Uki, Bouro Island. December 9, 1909. Lengtli 160 to 195 mm. 

 17921, 17924, 18102. Tanakeke Island, Flores Sea. December 21, 1909. Length 



149 to 189 mm. Upper portion olive. Lateral line pale. Dorsal tip and anal 



edge black. Edges and tip of caudal blackish. Pectoral yellow. Ventral 



orange red. 

 19953 U. S. N. M. Mauritius. Col. Nicholas Pike. Length 135 to 185? mm. 



13 examples. 

 52354 U. S.N. M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries (02359). Length 160? to 



179 mm. 2 examples. 

 56087 U. S. N. M. Bacon, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3213). Length 



160? mm. 



PEMPHERIS OUALENSIS Cuvier 



Petnpheris oualensis Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 299. Oualan.— 

 Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, Nov. 12, 1831, p. 168 (Oualan).— 

 Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 1876-1877, p. 6, pi. (1)383. fig. 5 

 (Java, Celebes, Timor, Halmaheira, Amboina). — Steindachneb, Sitz. Ber. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 115, pt. 1. 1906, p. 1376 (Savaii; Upolu ) .—Jordan 

 and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 236 ( Samoa ) .—Jordan 

 and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 254 (Calayan).— 

 Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 497 (Okinawa).— Ogilby, 

 Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dec. 10, 1913, p. 366 (Moluccas, Malaysia, 

 Carolines, New Guinea, South Sea Islands). — Weber. Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

 1913, p. 192 (Macassar; Gisser; Binongka). — Fowler, Bull. Bishop Mus., 

 No. 22, 1925. p. 32 (Samoa) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 

 633 (Apia). 



