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Ceylon, Formosa. Described without comparison, though evi- 

 dently allied with Scolopsis townsendi. Though Boulenger's speci- 

 mens were much smaller, with fewer gill rakers and the preopercle 

 flange scaly, possibly the latter were rubbed off in Scolopsis eriommay 

 and the apparent differences really only of age. 



SCOLOPSIS INERMIS (Schlegel) 



Scolopsides inermis Schegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pts. 2-4, 1843, p. 63, pi. 28, 

 fig. 1. Japan. — Bleekeb, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., No. 4, vol, 26, 1857, pp. 5, 

 83 (Nagasaki) ; Nat. Tijds. Nederland Indie, vol. 20, 1859-1860, p. 235 

 (Nagasaki). — Jobdan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 33, 1901, p. 751 

 (Yokohama).— Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 31, 1907, p. 477 

 (Kagoshima). 



Scolopsis inemvis Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 357 (copied). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 4, pi. (63) 341, 

 fig. 5 (Sangir; Nagasaki). — Steindachneb and DoDEBLiaN, Denkschr. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 48, pt. 1, 1883, p. 14 (Kagoshima). — 

 Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 32, pi. 7, fig. 3. — Boulengek, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 656 (Muscat). — Ishikawa and Matsuxtra, 

 Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 54. — Fbanz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., vol 4, Suppl. Band 1, 1910, p. 47 (Aburatsubu). — Jobdan and Thomp- 

 son, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 555 (Nagasaki). — Zugmayer, 

 Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-physik. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 11 

 (Mekran; Oman). — Izuka and Matsux^a, Cat, Zool. Spec. Tokyo Imp. 

 Mus., Vertebr., 1920, p. 150 (Tateyama, Boshiu). 



Heterognathodon guUminda (not Cuvieir) Ishikawa and Matstjura, Prelim. 

 Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 54 (Kagoshima). 



Heterognathodon doderleini Ishikawa and Matsuuba, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. 

 Tokyo, 1897, p. 10, pi. 4. Kagoshima, (On above example.) 



Depth 2% to 22/3 ; head 3 to Si/g, width 1% to 2%. Snout 31/3 to 

 3% in head from upper jaw tip; eye 3^ to 3l^, greater than snout 

 to subequal, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to 14 in 

 eye, expansion I/2 of eye, length 2% to 2% in head from upper jaw 

 tip; teeth villiform, outer row little enlarged; interorbital 3% to 

 334, little convex ; infraorbital edge with 4 or 5 posterior denticles of 

 which upper largest ; preopercle edge finely denticulate. Gill rakers 

 6 + 5, short tubercles. 



Scales 35 or 36 in lateral line to caudal base and to 2 more on 

 latter; 5 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 13 predorsal to occiput 

 and 5 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Scales with 10 to 12 basal 

 radiating striae ; apical denticles 88 to 132, small slender points, with 

 11 to 15 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2i/^ to 2^ in total head length, fourth 

 ray lyg ; A. Ill, 7 or 8, third spine 2% to 6 ; caudal li/g to 11/5, hind 

 edge concave; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral I1/5 

 to 114 ; ventral I14 to 1%. 



Brown, with 5 or 6 ill defined vertical bands on back. Fins uni- 

 form pale brown. 



