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gray spots and marginally gray or brownish tints. Caudal and anal 

 usually with less distinct though similar gray spots. Anal often 

 with gray edge. Paired fins immaculate. Ventral variously dusky 

 in young, paler with age. 



Zanzibar, Durban, South Africa, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, 

 Polynesia, Hawaii. Also in the Atlantic. Known chiefly by the 

 gill rakers less than 20 on the lower branch of the first arch and the 

 soft dorsal ra^'s 13. 



22573 [615]. Baganga Bay, east coast of Mindanao. May 15, 1908. Length 

 97 mm. Mottled silvery and reddish bronze. Silvery across eye to pupil 

 center. Fins like body. 



4719. Ligpo Point, Balayan Bay, Verde Island Passage. January 18, 1908. 

 Length 266 mm. 



Figure 8. — I'RiACANTHrs cruextatus (Lac£pi:de). Young 



3453 [D. 5406]. Ponson Island, S, 88° E., 10.2 miles (10° 49' 03" N., 124° 22' 



30" E.), vicinity Dupon Bay, Leyte, March 17, 1909. Length 145 mm. 

 14259. Port Palapag, June 3, 1909. Length 217 mm. 

 7097. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. Length 



265 mm. 

 4297 [D. 5574]. Simaluc Island, S. 66° E., 5.8 miles (5° 30' 45" N., 120° 07' 



57" E.), north of Tawi Tawi. September 23, 1909. Length 43 mm. 

 13900. Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 176 mm. 

 6696. Singaan Island, between Jolo and Tawi Tawi. September 21, 1909. 



Length 190 mm, 

 3139 [1188] [D. 5375]. Tayabas Light, N. 49° W., 18.2 miles (13° 42' 15" N., 



121° 50' 15" E.), vicinity Marinduque. 

 6774. Tictauan Island, east of Zamboanga. 

 6950, 6951. West coast of Sabtan Island. 



242 mm. 



March 2, 1909. Length 68 mm. 

 September 8, 1909. Length 248 mm. 

 November 8, 1908. Length 240 to 



