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187a-1876, pi. (16)294, fig. 1.— Meyee, Anal. Soc. Espau. Hist. Nat, Madrid, 

 vol. 14, 1885, p. 15 (Cebu). — Gorgoza, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, 

 vol. 17, 1888, p. 285 (Cebu).— Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 528 (Padang). »■ 



Perca frenata Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 357. No locality. 

 (Name in text.) 



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

 head from snout tip ; eye 2i/^ to 3, greater than snout or interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches to or little beyond front eye edge, but not to pupil 

 with age, length 314 to 31/^ in head; teeth minute, pointed, conic, in 

 bands in jaws; palate and tongue toothless; interorbital 3iA to 4, 

 slightly elevated, largely flattened above; preopercle edge rather 

 irregularly with 25 serrae ; small infraorbital spine directed forward ; 

 preorbital with several denticles, uppermost as rather large dagger 

 like spine directed backward, along upper edge 2i/^ in eye. Gill 

 rakers 3+5, short tubercles, i/^ of gill filaments, which 14 of ^J^- 



Scales 40 to 43 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 to 4 more on 

 latter ; 4 scales above lateral line, 10 or 11 below, 24 or 25 predorsal 

 forward opposite front nostril; cheek with 4 rows of scales to pre- 

 opercle ridge and 2 or 3 more on flange. Suprascapula denticulate. 

 Scales with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; 129 to 140 apical denti- 

 cles, with 1 or 2 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X, 9, 1, fifth spine 2 to 2% in total head length, first ray 2i/4 to 

 2% ; A. Ill, 7, 1, second spine 1% to 1%, third ray 1% to 3% ; caudal 

 1 to lYs, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1 to 

 1% ; ventral 1 to I14. 



Back brown, paler to whitish on sides and below. White line, usu- 

 ally broken as small spots, from above one hind nostril to opposite 

 one. Whitish medial line from interorbital to spinous dorsal and 

 another each side above eye up to front sides of back. Broad white 

 band from infraorbital obliquely up till opposite soft dorsal origin 

 on back, bordered each side its extent by dark line. Large diffuse 

 blotch at bases of last dorsal rays on back. Iris pale yellowish white. 

 Spinous dorsal whitish, terminally shaded with brownish. Soft 

 dorsal light brown, anteriorly with broad dusky margin, which offset 

 by pale line out to hind tip of soft fin. And with front half black, 

 hind half white. Other fins all pale. 



Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Melanesia. 



5688. Agojo Point, Catanduanes Island, Luzon. June 10, 1909. Length 1.'2 nmi. 



6515. Alibijaban Ishmd. March 6, 1909. Length 152 mm. 



11202, 16005, 16006, 17701, 22105. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. 



Length 104 to 152 mm. 

 14778. Bagacay Bay, Escarpada Island. March 13, 1909. Length 160 mm. 

 23723. Biri Channel. June 1-2, 1909. Length 106 mm. 

 9287. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length 130 mm. 



17700. Busin Harbor, Burias Island. March 8, 1909. Length 141 mm. 

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