276 BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



4 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge, flange naked. D. X, 9, third 

 spine 21/^ in head, fifth ray 1% ; A. Ill, 7, third spine 2%, first ray 

 21/^ ; caudal 1, well forked ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% ; pec- 

 toral ll^; ventral 1%. Back olive. Yellowish white band from 

 snout to bases of dorsal spines; second from above orbit to end of 

 dorsal fin base; third from snout, where arising in common with 

 one from opposite side, passes through upper part of eye and at 

 shoulder divides in two, one extending along above lateral line and 

 becomes lost on back of tail, other below lateral line lost on last 

 fourth of body ; fourth along preorbital and suborbital ring of lines 

 lost above pectoral base, which with black axillary spot. Most 

 scales below lateral line in front % of body with black basal spot. 

 Violet mark at base of either caudal lobe. Length 170 mm. (Day.) 

 Red Sea, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Zanzibar, India, Andamans, East 

 Indies, Melanesia. 



SCOLOPSIS XENOCHROUS Gunther 



Scolopsis xenochrous Gunthek, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 10, 1872, p. 423. 



Misol, Moluccas; Cruise of Cura^oa, Brenchley, 1873, p. (410) 420, pi. 31 



(type). 

 Scolopsis hulanensis Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 



(1907), p. 85, fig. 5. Bulan, Philippines. 



Depth 2% to 31/8 ; head 3 to 314, width 1% to 2. Snout 2^^ to 3 in 

 head; eye 3, 1 to 1^^ in snout, 1 to Ij^ in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches nearly opposite front eye edge, expansion 3 to 31/3 in eye, 

 length 314 to 3I/2 in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws; inter- 

 orbital 2% to 3l^ in head, very slightly convex with median depres- 

 sion; hind preopercle edge rather coarsely denticulate; infraorbital 

 spine about l^ of eye. Gill rakers 5 + 5 short, round, low tubercles. 



Scales 41 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 4 

 scales above lateral line, 9 below, 25 to 27 predorsal forward oppo- 

 site hind nostril, 5 or 6 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge and 1 

 row on preopercle flange. Suprascapula denticulate. Scales with 

 6 to 10 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 108 to 110 with 3 or 

 4 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2I/2 in head, first ray 2I/3; A. Ill, 7, i, 

 second spine 2l^ to 2%, first ray 21/5 to 2V3; caudal 1% to 1^4, 

 deeply forked, lobes sharply pointed and upper little longer; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3 ; pectoral 11/5 to 11/4 1 ventral li^ 

 to 11/3. 



Back olivaceous, under surface pale to whitish. White oblique 

 band on preorbital horizontally from maxillary. Narrow white line 

 along back above close to dorsal bases. Rather broad oblique short 

 white bar from suprascapula, bordered above and below broadly with 

 black. Posteriorly along middle of flanks 5 oblique rows of dusky 



