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rays basally and continues out over caudal horizontally and above 

 three oblique dark parallel bands which become horizontal as caudal 

 is expanded; fourth dark horizontal band extends out over caudal 

 similar to third and similarly three oblique dark parallel bands out 

 on lower caudal lobes as on upper, only reversed. In young third 

 and fourth dark bands only separated by a narrow whitish line on 

 the head and body and merge in the caudal, whose lobes with only 

 two black bands above and two below. Young also show pectoral 

 with two black blotches and basal brown blotch. Ventral uniform 

 pale yellowish. Anal with two dark horizontal bands, 



Ked Sea, Mozambique, India, East Indies, Philippines, Micronesia. 



Two examples. Cebu market. March 20, 1909. Length 88 to 134 mm. 

 21824. Cebu market. March 22, 1909. Length 95 mm. 



19053, 21742 to 21745. Cebu market. September 3, 1909. Length 94 to 157 mm. 

 5148. Jolo market. March 6, 1908. Length 189 mm. 



4894. Siasi Island and market. February 17, 1908. Length 144 to 158 mm. 

 2 examples. 



PLECTORHINCHUS GATERINUS (Forsk&l) 



Sciaena gaterma Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xii, 50, Djedda. — 

 BoNNATEEKE, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 124 (Red Sea).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 

 Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1303.— Waxbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 8, 1792, 

 p. 315, (on Foeskal). 



Holocentrus gaterina Schneidbb, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 320 (Red Sea). 



Holocentrus gaterinus Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 328, 348 

 (Arabia). 



Diagramma gaterina RtJppELL, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 124, 

 pi. 32, fig. 1 (Djedda).— CuviER, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 301 

 (Lohaja).— GttNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1858, p. 322 (Red 

 Sea). — GxnoHENOT, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 25. — Playfaib, Fishes 

 of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 27 (Zanzibar; Aden). — Martens, Verb. zool. bot. 

 Ges. Wien, vol. 16, 1866, p. 378 (Koseir).— Klunzingee, Verb. zool. bot. 

 Ges. Wien, vol. 20. 1870, p. 737 ( Koseir ).— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 437 (Mauritius). — Klunzingee, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, 

 p. 30.— ScHMELTz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884, p. 27 (Zanzibar).— 

 BotTLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudou, 1887, p. 656 (Muscat). — Jatzow and 

 Lenz, Abh. Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 21, 1899, p. 501 (Zanzibar). 



Diagramma gatherina Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, pi. 125. — Pbttebs, 

 Arch. Naturg., 1855, p. 242 (Mozambique). 



DiagrammM gatterina Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 6, 1877, p. 12 (Zan- 

 zibar) ; No. 7, 1879, p. 39 (Zanzibar). 



Diagramma (Plectorhyrwhus) gaterina Zugmayer, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., Math.-physik. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 10 (Oman). 



Plectorhynchus gaterina Bamber, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 31, Zool., 

 1915, p. 481 (Sudanese Red Sea). 



Sciaena abumgaterin Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 51. Arabia. — 

 Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 315 (on Forskal). 



Depth 22/5; head 31/5. Snout 21/3 in head; eye 31/2, II/2 in snout, 

 equals interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite hind nostril, length 

 3^ in head; interorbital little elevated. (Scales 70 to 80 in lateral 



