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1906(1907), p. 83 (San Fabian). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 259 (Manila). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4. 1917, p. 450 (Ceylon, Aden, Philippines).— 

 Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 63 (Philippines). — Fowleb and 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 36 (Takao).— Fowler, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 230 (Delagoa Bay) ; 1927, p. 279 

 (Orani) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 207 (compiled). 



Poihadasys maculatum Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, Oct. 

 1917, p. 679 (Natal, Delagoa Bay, Chinde). 



Pristipoma caripa Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 261. 

 Pondicheiry, Malabar, Batavia, Mahe. — Rxjppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 

 1835, p. 124 (Massaua). — Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 

 1849, p. 1057 (Pinang). — Bleekek, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, 

 p. 31 (Manila Bay). 



Depth 2% to 2% ; head 2% to 3, width 1% to V/g. Snout 3 to 

 31/8 in head; eye 3% to 3%, li/s in snout, IVs to 11/5 in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eye or i/g in eye, expansion 21/2 to 2% in eye, 

 length 3 to 3i^ in head; lips moderately fleshy, narrow; teeth fine, 

 conic, simple in jaws, in 4 or 5 irregular rows above and 6 or 7 below, 

 outer row little enlarged; interorbital 3% to 414, broadly convex; 

 preopercle edge with 31 to 33 small marginal denticles. Gill rakers 

 6+ 13, lanceolate, half of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 49 or 50 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 to 10 more on 

 latter; 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below, 26 predorsal 

 forward opposite nostrils, 12 rows on cheek. Suprascapula entire. 

 Scales with 8 to 11 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 33 to 45, 

 weak, small points, with 5 to 11 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 13, I or 14, I, third spine 1% to 1% in total head length, 

 first ray 21/5 to 2%; A. Ill, 7, i, second spine 1% to 2V8, first ray 

 21^0 to 22/5 ; caudal 1% to 11/2, slightly emarginate behind ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3 to 31/3; pectoral 1 to 1^^; ventral 1^/3 to 1%. 



Back dull brown, sides below and under surface whitish, every- 

 where with silvery reflections. On sides of back 4 large dusky or 

 blackish blotches, variable, usually more or less as broad, transverse 

 bands, narrower than paler interspaces; first from predorsal down 

 over suprascapula; second from just before middle of spinous dorsal 

 base; third from junction of dorsals; fourth from last dorsal rays. 

 Sometimes dark blotch on back along middle of soft dorsal base. 

 Spinous dorsal brownish, darker or blackish medially. Soft dorsal 

 with upper half brown, basally pale, though with deep brown bar in 

 white area along each front basal border of ray. Other fins all 

 uniformly pale. Iris pale brown. 



Red Sea, Arabia, East Africa, Delagoa Bay, Natal, Seychelles, 

 India, Ceylon, Andamans, Siam, Singapore, Pinang, East Indies, 

 Philippines, Formosa, China, Queensland. Day mentions an abnor- 

 mal example with an extra spine on one side of the second dorsal 



