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over snout connecting upper parts of iris. Snout smoky purple, above yellow 

 bar, darker smoky purple below bar. Dorsal with olive yellow edge, mem- 

 brane in front of nearly every spine olive yellow, membrane behind each 

 spine blue, bordered with reddish ; membranes near outer edge of fin violet 

 hyaline. Hind caudal edge hyaline, rest of fin olive yellow. 



3262 to 3264 [D. 5360]. Corregidor Light, N. 74° W., 6.9 miles (14° 21' N., 

 120° 41' E.), Manila Bay. February 8, 1909. Length 94 to 113 mm. 



20449. Nato, Luzon. June 19, 1909. Length 85 mm. 



20501. Santa Maria. August 11, 1909. Length 77 mm. 



7845. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 310 mm. Pearl gray, 

 greenish shades above ; obscure brown stripes through centers of scale rows 

 above lateral line, similar but more yellowish stripes on middle of side 

 diagonally downward and forward ; yellow bar crossing upper portion of 

 snout from eye to eye, blue bar above dorsal hyaline purplish, margin 

 narrowly lemon yellow with dashes and dots of same color on body 

 membranes. 



6436, 6437. Tilig. July 14, 1908. Length 263 to 280 mm. 



A1124. Powati, Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length 248 mm. Pale 

 olive gray, with slight iridescence through middle, lower portions silvery 

 white; naked snout slaty purple; dusky spot appears in central base of 

 anterior spinous dorsal ; hinder edge of preopercle yellowish on teeth ; inside 

 of lower jaw with red wash ; dorsal mottled with lemon and pearly, dash of 

 purplish in upper portion of each portion forming definite oblique bar on 

 posterior spinous membranes and along inframarginal portion of soft fin ; 

 caudal cadmium, shading more or less on to peduncle, margin in fork dusky 

 hyaline ; anal hyaline with slight silvery shade in middle of soft part ; 

 ventrals hyaline with dash of yellowish ; pectoral membranes hyaline, upper 

 rays clear sulphur and first two dusky with some ochry coloration at base; 

 upper portion of orbit with dash of orange ; iris brown clouded with silvery 

 and little orange. 



12176. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 158 mm. 



56075 U.S.N.M. Bulan. Bureau of Fisheries (3277). Length 148 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS LONGULUS Richardson 



Scolopsis longulus Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 389. 



Torres Straits.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 363 (types; 



Torres Strait). 

 Scolopsidcs leucotaenia Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 



451. Banka or Lepar Island. 

 Scolopis leucotaenia Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 363 



(copied).— Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, pi. 



(16)294, fig. 4; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 4 (Banka, Celebes, Coram, Amboina, 



Nussa Laut).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 88, pi. 23, fig. 4.— 



Fowler, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 279 (Philippines) ; 



Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 1928, p. 208 (New Guinea). 

 Scolopsis leucotaenoides Bleeker, Naturk. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 8, 



1855, p. 439. Manado, Celebes. 

 Scolopsis leucotaenioides Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 263 



(compiled). 



Depth 2% to 3 ; head 3 to 31/5, width 2. Snout 31/2 to 41/8 in head; 

 eye 2% to 4%, greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 eye? 3l^ to 31/^ in head; bands of fine teeth in jaws, none on palate 



