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15479, 17175. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. Length 191 to 193 mm. 



15153, 15154. Port Uson, Busuanga Island. December 17, 1908. Length 201 

 to 205 mm. 



5701, 5702. Pujada Bay. May 10, 1908. Length 186 to 197 mm. 



5086 to 5091, 20765. Pujada Bay. May 15, 1908. Length 147 to 193 mm. 



19924. Romblon Harbor. March 25, 1908. Length 155 mm. 



12016. San Miguel Harbor. April 21, 1908. Length 201 mm. 



12226. Santa Cruz Island. April 24, 1908. Length 210 mm. 



17826 to 17829 [143]. Simaluc Island, Sulu. February 19, 1908. Length 171 

 to 205 mm. Back greenish, central area of scales pale, margins much darker ; 

 below lateral line general color much lighter, becoming silvery on lower 

 side and belly ; dark areas on scales which olive above, become chrome below, 

 the whole forming oblique broken bands pointing backward along rows 

 of scales. Top of head greenish and olive ; greenish blue line from snout 

 above nostril around upper rim of orbit, breaking into scattered blue spots 

 on temporal region ; line of azure blue under eye, may be solid or series 

 of round dots; single spot on preorbital above. Dorsal variously shaded 

 with olive green and opalescent ; upper part of soft portion reddish brown ; 

 opalescence appearing as roundish spots or blotches on basal part; whole fin 

 narrowly tipped with chrome. Caudal citron above, purplish below, nar- 

 rowly tipped with white in crotch. Anal citron yellow, tipped with white. 

 Ventral and pectoral chrome ; spine and tip of first ray in ventral white. 

 Iris very dark golden, silvery shades above; inner angle of mouth orange, 

 lower lip and front of premaxillary white. 



5726, 5727, 9398. Surigao. May 8, 1908. Length 180 to 220 mm. 



15608, 16200. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 207 to 216 mm. 



9517. Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length 146 mm. 



5828. Tataibada Point. May 15, 1908. Length 208 mm. 



6594. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length 214 mm. 



13385, 16084 to 16086. Ulugan Bay, Channel north of Oyster Inlet, Palawan. 

 December 28, 1908. Length 131 to 206 mm. 



5361. Bumbum Island, Borneo. September 25, 1909. Length 188 mm. 



13462. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 170 mm. 



30607 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 184 mm. 



56032 U.S.N.M. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (3736). Length 208 mm. 



72673. U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 193 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS TAENIOPTERUS (Cuvier) 



Soolopsides taeniopterus (Kuhl and Van Ha8sei,t) Cttvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vol. 5, 1830, p. 345. Java. 

 Scolopsis taeniopterus Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, 



p. 10, pi. (65)343, fig. 5 (Banka; Java). 



Depth 3%; head 24^, width 1%. Snout 21/2 in head; eye 3%, 

 1^ in snout, 11/5 in interorbital ; maxillary not quite reaching eye, 

 length 2% in head; teeth villiform, in narrow bands in jaws; inter- 

 orbital 3l^, convex; hind preopercle edge with small denticles. Gill 

 rakers 5 + 5, short tubercles. 



Scales 44 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 more on latter; 5 

 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 28 predorsal forward above nos- 

 trils, 6 rows on cheek of which 2 on preopercle flange. Scales with 

 12 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 140 to 145, minute points, 

 with 12 to 15 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



