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about half the size of eye on the first 3 membranes in middle ; posterior 

 portion of dorsal brownish orange, marginal yellow fading out after first 

 3 membranes ; caudal pale, rays dusky, upper lobe yellowish, lower orange ; 

 anal pale yellow, tipped with white; ventral same with white front; 

 pectoral still paler, becoming whitish terminally below ; iris brown. 



21921. Cebu market. September 1, 1909. Length 60 mm. 



16336, 16337. Chase Head, Endeavor Strait. December 22, 1908. Length 80 

 to 93 mm. 



136. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 23, 1908. Length 110 mm. 



6805. Gigoso Point, Quinapundan Bay, Samar. July 28, 1909. Length 106 mm. 



16907. Makesi Island, Palawan. April 5, 1909. Length 98 mm. 



12753. North end Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 22, 1908. Length 

 100 mm. 



22529 [812]. Port Uson, west of Pinas Island. December 17, 1908. Length 

 80 mm. Black lateral stripe from snout to base of caudal, above oliva- 

 ceous ; more dusky just above front half of lateral line ; side of head and body 

 under axial lateral line with lemon yellow shades, brightest on head ; 

 breast and belly silvery, with some yellow ; dorsal similar to adjacent body ; 

 black blotch on first 3 membranes below center; soft fin with orange mem- 

 branes, hyaline ; caudal rays dusky, membranes hyaline yellow ; lower fins and 

 pectoral hyaline yellow. 



14177. Santa Cruz Island. April 24, 1908. Length 80 mm. 



20974. Usada Island, Jolo. March 3, 1908. Length 120 mm. 



20033. Bumbum Island, Borneo. September 25, 1909. Length 68 mm. 



21326. Great Tobea Island. December 15, 1909. Length 89 mm. 



30655 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 135 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS TRILINEATUS Kner 



Scolopsis trilineatus Knee, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 57, pt. 1, 1868, pp. 

 27, 30, pi. 2, fig. 5. Savay, Samoa. — GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 

 2-3, pts. 5-6, 1874, p. 31, pi. 25, fig. A (Samoa, Fiji).— Bleeker, Atlas 

 Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, 187&-1877, p. 5, pi. (53)331, fig. 2 (Ternate, 

 Amboina).— PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884, p. 27 (Savaii).— 

 Fowler, Bull. Bishop Mus., No. 22, 1925, p. 33 (Samoa) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 10, 1928, p. 208 (Fat6 and Apia) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1929, p. 641 (Apia; Fate). 



Scolopsis trilineata Jordan and Seai.e, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905(1906), 

 p. 268 (Apia and Pago Pago). 



Depth 3 to 31/5; head 31/5 to 3l^, width 1% to 2. Snout 31/5 to 

 3% in head; eye 3 to 3^^, greater than snout, equals interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches opposite eye, expansion 3% to 3% in eye, length 3 

 to 3% in head; teeth fine, simple, conic, in about 5 irregular series 

 with outer row little enlarged; interorbital 2% to 3, broadly con- 

 vex; preopercle edge with 13 or 14 rather irregular large denticles. 

 Gill rakers 6 + 6, tubercles, I/2 of gill filaments which i/^ in eye. 



Scales 38 to 42 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 4 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 16 to 20 predorsal extend- 

 ing forward opposite middle of eye, 5 rows on cheek to preopercle 

 flange. Suprascapula serrate. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating 

 striae ; apical denticles 92 to 106, small, with 1 or 2 transverse series 

 of basal elements ; circuli very fine. 



