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19202, 19204. Maagnas, Lagonoy Gulf, Luzon. June 7, 1909. Length 145 to 



167 mm. 

 16949. Mahinog, Camiguin Island. August 3, 1909. Length 184 mm. 

 18580, 18581. Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. 



Length 145 to 148 mm. 

 9380, 15609. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 152 to 193 mm. 

 A1542. Doc Can Island, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 230 mm. 

 56205 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries (3278). Length 170 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS PHAEOPS (Bennett) 



Scolopsldes phae&ps Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 165. Mauritius. 



Scolopsides phoeops Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 176, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2 (Reunion, Seychelles, Madagascar). 



Scolopsis phacops Gtjnther, Oat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 358 (type).— 

 Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 85, pi. 22, fig. 2; Fauna Brit. India, 

 Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 521. — Johnstone, Rep. Pearl Oyster Fisher. Gulf 

 of Manaar, pt. 2, 1904, p. 221 (off Aripu reef). — Peaeson, Ceylon Administr. 

 Rep., 1912-1913, pt. 4, p. E15 (Gulf of Manaar).— Zugmayer, Abhandl. K. 

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



8colopsis nototaenia Playfaib, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 29. Aden. 



Seolopsis nototaenia Platfaie, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, pi. 5, fig. 2. (Misprint.) 



Depth 21/2 to 2% ; head 2% to 3, width 1% to 1^% Snout 23/5 to 

 2% in head; eye 31/5 to 31/3, I14 to 1% in snout, 1 to IVs in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches to or % in eye, expansion 2% to 2% in 

 eye, length 2% to 2% in head; teeth in broad villiform bands in 

 jaws, about 7 irregular rows anteriorly; interorbital 3 to 3i/^, very 

 slightly convex; infraorbital spine 2 to 2% in eye; preopercle edge 

 with minute wide set, bony expansion at angle. Gill rakers 4+5, 

 low tubercles, ^ of gill filaments or y^ of eye. 



Scales 46 to 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 to 6 more on 

 latter; 7 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below, 29 to 34 predorsal 

 forward above nostrils, 8 or 9 rows on cheek of which 2 on preopercle 

 flange. Scales with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 

 120 to 122, minute, with 9 to 12 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2% to 3 in head, first ray 21/5 to 21/3; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 31/3 to S%, first ray 2% to 2% ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2^% to 2%; pectoral 1^/4 to 11^; ventral II/5 to 

 114 ; caudal 2% to 2% in combined head and body to caudal base, 

 deeply forked, upper lobe longer. 



Dull olivaceous brown on back, sides and below nearly buff. Along 

 lateral line anteriorly or from head till below middle of soft dorsal 

 diffuse pale band. Pale or gray streak or narrow band along side of 

 snout close along lower eye edge on infraorbital and then upward 

 over postocular to opercle above and finally down along its postero- 

 superior border toward pectoral axil. Snout little darker brown 

 above than rest of head. Iris yellowish brown. Dorsals paler brown 



