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4S26. Jolo market. February 10, 1908. Length 248 mm. 



A547. Sulade Island, Jolo. September 17, 1909. Length 338 mm. 



5991. Zamboanga market. May 26, 190S. Length 324 mm. 



0396. Zamboanga market. September 7, 1909. Length 429 mm. Stripes of 



(lark yellow, interspaces gray with dusky limiting lines ; breast and belly 



dusky, without stripes ; fins bright yellow ; mouth more or less scarlet 



internally and on outer membranes. 

 S4243 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. F. Baker. Length 295 to 301 mm. 2 



exanlples. 



PLECTORHINCHUS CINCTUS (Schlegel) 



Diagrnmma cinctum Schlegei., Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 2-A, 1843, p. 61, pi. 

 26. fig. 1. Japan.— RiCHAKDSON, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 229 (Coast of 

 China and Japan) . — Bleekek, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan) , vol. 26, 1857, 

 p. 5 (Nagasaki). — GtJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 325 (China 

 Japan, Nepal?).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1. 1875, p. 81, pi. 21, fig. 1 

 (remarks on GIInther's Nepal specimen likely from Ganges mouth). — 

 Maetens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 387 (Yokohama). — KIeoli, 

 Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 153 (Yokohama, Japan). — 

 STBINDACHNE3J and DoDEELEiN, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. 

 Klasse, vol. 48, 1883, p. 11 (Tokyo).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 1889, p. 517. — IsHiKAWA and Matsutjea, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, 

 p. 54. — Pellegkin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, 1905, p. 84 (Bale d' Along, 

 Tonkin).— Feanz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl. Band 1, 1910, 

 p. 46 (Yokohama). — Peaeson, Ceylon Administrat. Rep., 1912-1913, p. E14 

 (Gulf of Manaar). — Tieant, Service Oc^anogr. Peches Indo Chine, 6" Note, 

 1929, p. 168 (Cochin China). 



Plectorhynchus cinctus Bleekeb, Verb. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, 

 1879, p. 7 (Nagasaki, Kaiusiu, Simoda, Sekok). — Steindachnee, Ann. 

 Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, vol. 11, 1896, heft 2, p. 199 (Kobe, Hiogo, Naga- 

 saki). — JoBDAN and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 549 

 (Yokohama, Wakanoura, Misaki). — Izuka and Matsuxjea, Cat. Zool. Spec. 

 Tokyo Imp. Mus., Vertebr., 1920, p. 149 (Tokyo). 



Diagranima {Plectorhijnchus) cinctum Zugmayee, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., Math.-physik. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 11 (Mekran). 



fDia gramma macrolepidotum (Peters) MAETEOsrs, Preuss. Exped. Ost Asien, 

 1876, p. 386. Yeddo. (No description.) 



Depth 22/5 to 21/2; head 3, width 1% to 2. Snout 21/2 to 2% in 

 head; eye 3 to 4'%, 1% to 1% in snout, greater than interorbital in 

 3'oung to 1% in interorbital with age; maxillary not or to eye; length 

 3 in head; teeth minute, in narrow bands in jaws; interorbital 3% 

 to 4, convex; preopercle edge finely serrate. Gill rakers 7 + 15, 

 lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments. 



Scales 90 to 95 along above lateral line, 65 to 70 along below; 17 

 scales above lateral line, 23 below, 50 predorsal forward opposite 

 front nostril. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating striae; apical 

 denticles 45 to 47, small, with 8 or 9 transverse series of basal ele- 

 ments; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 15, fourth spine 1^^ to 1% in liead, fifth ray 1% to 2; 

 A. Ill, 7, second spine 1% to 1% ; caudal I14 to li/^, rounded in 



