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Scolopsis affinis Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876 (1877), p. 832. 



Carteret Harbor, New Ireland; New Britain. 

 Scolopsis dubiosus Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 282. Macassar. 



Depth 2% to 2% ; head 31/5 to 314, width 1% to 2. Snout 21/2 to 

 2% in head; eye S% to 4, li^ to is/g in snout, V/g to II/3 in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches opposite eye in young, not quite to eye 

 with age, expansion 2 to 3 in eye, length 24^ to 3 in head; teeth in 

 villiform bands in jaws, uniform; interorbital 3, broadly convex; 

 hind preopercle edge with 30 minute denticles, larger at angle and 

 lower edge entire. Gill rakers 5+5, clavate knobs, l^^ in gill fila- 

 ments, which % of eye. 



Tubular scales 45 or 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 

 more on latter ; 4 or 5 scales above lateral line, 11 or 12 below, 30 to 

 37 predorsal scales forward opposite nostrils, 6 rows on cheek. Su- 

 prascapula denticulated. Scales with 12 or 13 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 140 to 167, minute, with 9 or 10 transverse series of 

 basal elements; circuli very fine. 



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

 Ill, 6, I or 7, I, third spine 3%, first ray 2% to 2% ; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2i/^ to 2% ; pectoral ly^ to I14 1 ventral I14 to IV3 ; 

 caudal 2^4 to 2% in combined head and body to caudal base, fin 

 deeply emarginate, lobes pointed with upper longer, ending in 

 filament longer than lower. 



Back dull olive brown, lower sides pale brown, line of demarca- 

 tion quite contrasted with dark of upper surfaces just above flanks. 

 Dark brown streak across pectoral base obliquely. Iris light yel- 

 lowish brown. Fins uniform dull brown. 



Red Sea, Arabia, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, China, 

 Melanesia. The blue preocular band as shown in Bleeker's figure 

 has faded entirely in my specimens. 



7602. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 24, 1908. Length 255 mm. 



A1410. Tampiotana Island. December 21, 1909. Length 325 mm. 



47600 U.S.N.M. Red Sea. N. Y. Museum. Length 217 mm. As 8colopsis 



Uneatus. 

 58037 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 290? mm. 

 72671 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 198 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS MONOGRAMMA (Cuvier) 



Scolopsides monogramma (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cxjvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 5, 1830, p. 338. Java, Batavia. — Bleekek, Nederland. Tijds. Dierk., 

 vol. 2, 1865, p. 31 (Manila Bay). 



Scolopsis monogramma GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859 (Moluccas, 

 Amboina ) .— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 86, pi. 22, fig. 5. — Bleekeb, 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 11, pi. (57)335, fig. 3.— 

 GiJNTHER, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 6, 1880, p. 52 (Philippines). — 

 Kakoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 154 (Singapore). — 

 Meyee, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 15 (North 



