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D. X, 9, I, tliird spine 2% to 2% in total head length, first ray 

 21/3 to 21/2; A. Ill, 7, I, third spine li^ to 22/5, first ray 1% to 2; 

 caudal ll^ to 1%, well forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% 

 to 23/5 ; pectoral II/3 to 1% ; ventral 11/5 to li^. 



Back olivaceous to brown, sides little brown and under surfaces 

 little pale, evidently whitish in life. Median pale or whitish pre- 

 dorsal line to interorbital. Creamy band horizontallj'^ across snout 

 above nostrils, from one eye to another; above another band, less 

 distinct, from one upper eye edge to other eye; still another pale 

 band around snout end to each eye; pale line or band above eye 

 each side of median band; whitish band from upper hind eye edge 

 along back till below bases of front dorsal spines. Another band 

 extends from upper hind eye edge till below bases of last dorsal 

 rays, anteriorly little distinct. Lowest white line slopes from lower 

 hind eye edge up to lateral line below middle of spinous dorsal, 

 ending abruptly. Iris pale yellowish brown. Fins all uniformly 

 pale. 



East Indies, Melanesia, Polynesia. Most of my examples show 

 variation individually, as the light lines are not exactly alike in any. 



12448, 12449. Bugsuk Island. January 5, 1909, Length 157 to 170 mm. 



17404, 17405. Candaraman Island. January 4, 1909. Length 175 to 177 mm. 



19980. Cebu market. September 3, 1909. Length 94 mm. 



10554, 13206. Jolo Island. March 7, 1908. Length 143 to 203 mm. 



11281, 17650, 17651. Paudanon Island. March 23, 1909. Length 138 to 141 mm. 



15919. Pangasinan Island, Jolo. February 13, 1908. Length 179 mm. 



18605. Tambun Sigambul, Tonquil Island, south of Zamboanga. September 14, 



1909. Length 188 mm. 

 8216, 19830. Tataan. February 20, 1908. Length 108 mm. 



9950, 9951. Doc Can Island, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 128 to 138 mm. 

 52528 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 128 to 193 mm. 



4 examples. 

 75899 U.S.N.M. Borneo. H. C. Raven. Length 189 mm. 

 31668 to 31672 A. N. S. P. Apia. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 138 to 183 mm. 



SCOLOPSIS FRENATUS (Cuvier) 



Hcolopsides frenatus Cuvikr, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 343. Seychelles; 



Mauritius. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 175, pi. 28, 



fig. 3, o-b (type; Mauritius). 

 Scolopsi^ frenatus Gijntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol 1, 1859, p. 361 (copied).— 



Playfaib, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 30 (Seychelles). 



Depth 2^4; head 3%. Snout 3% in head; eye 31/^, subequal with 

 snout and interorbital; maxillary reaches jV ^^ ^je, length 3% in 

 head; interorbital little convex; preorbital depth above maxillary 

 expansion 2i/4 in eye ; infraorbital spine moderate, li^ in eye, with 4 

 denticles below; preopercle edge denticulate. Scales 45 in lateral 

 line (figure shows 50 but last 2 on caudal base) ; 14 scales above 

 lateral line, 15 below, predorsal apparently extend forward opposite 



