226 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



27617 to 27619 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. HiUer. 



Length 210 to 237 mm. When fresh in arrack rich olivaceous brown above, 

 sides and lower surfaces deep rosy. Narrow lines, deep rosy below, but 

 turning dark brown above, extend in courses of scales obliquely to dorsal 

 base. Iris dull orange. Dorsals mostly olivaceous, submarginally broadly 

 dusky gray, deepest or almost pure black along edges. Caudal base yellow- 

 ish, becoming grayish and dusky, then deepens into blackish along edges. 

 Anal and ventral deep citron yellow. Pectoral bright orange, axil pale. 



Genus MIROLABRICHTHYS Herre 



Mirolabriclithys Hekee, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 32, No. 3, March 1927, p. 413. 



Type Mirola'brichthys tuka Heree, monotypic. 

 Entonanthias Jordan and Tanaka, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 17, 1927, p. 385. 



Type Entonanthias pascalus Jordan and Tanaka, orthotypic. 



Body moderately long, compressed. Head moderate, compressed. 

 Snout produced in flexible, conic, pointed papilla, with age extended 

 little forward of maxillary. Eye moderate, along hind edge with 

 row of small papillae. Maxillary long, reaches below hind part 

 of eye. Teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, 2 pairs of canines an- 

 teriorly also 1 each side below. Palate and tongue toothless. Gill 

 rakers lanceolate, rather fine. Scales small, ctenoid, each with small 

 auxiliary basal scale. Dorsal fin deeply notched, appearing as 2 

 nearly separated fins. Soft dorsal, anal and ventrals sometimes with 

 filaments. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o^ Snout with pointed conic papilla, extends slightly forward of maxillary; 



soft dorsal, anal and ventral filamentous tuka. 



a-. Snout without papilla, jaws even in front ; fins without filaments waitei. 



MIROLABRICHTHYS TUKA Herre 



Mit'OlaVrichthys tuka Hebre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 32, No. 3, March 1927, 



p. 413, pi. 1. Maricaban Island. 

 Entonanthias pascaUis Jordan and Tanaka, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 17, 1927, 



p. 385, pi. 34, fig. 2. Naha, Okinawa. 



Depth 2% to 3l^ ; head 3 to 3^^, width 2^^ to 2ys. Snout 3% to 

 5 in head, with age a pointed, flexible, conic papilla like point extend- 

 ing beyond premaxillary for space half of eye diameter; eye 3^4 to 

 41/^, its edge along posterior half of orbit with single row of small 

 fleshy points or papillae, much greater than snout in young to li^ 

 with age, 1 to li^ in interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite hind 

 pupil edge in young till opposite or little behind eye edge with age, 

 (expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 1% to 2 (with age includes rostral 

 papilla) in head; bands of fine teeth in each jaw anteriorly, narrow- 

 ing laterally, 2 pairs of canines anteriorly in jaws, often each double 

 and directed more or less anteriorly, also mandible with median 

 lateral recurved canine each side; tongue and palate toothless; in- 

 terorbital 3% to 2%, broadly convex; preopercle edge finely dentic- 



