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of eye, length 3^^ in head ; teeth fine, upper in 4 or 5 irregular rows, 

 lower in 5 or 6 and each jaw with outer enlarged row; interorbital 

 414 in head, convex; hind preorbital edge denticulate. Gill rakers 

 7+15, lanceolate. 



Scales 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 7 

 rows of scales above lateral line, 15 below, 37 predorsal. Scales 

 with 8 to 12 basal striae ; apical points 9 to 25, with 7 to 9 rows of 

 basal segments. 



D. XII, 13, I, fourth spine 1% in head, first ray 2l^ ; A. Ill, 8, i, 

 second spine 1%, first ray 2^^; caudal 11^, emarginate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Back brown, whitish below. On back 5 or 6 irregular longitudinal 

 rows of dusky brown spots, lowest level with eye. Spinous dorsal 

 dark gray, with basal neutral dusky blotch and membranes ter- 

 minally dark. Soft dorsal pale, terminal half and subbasal longi- 

 tudinal band dark. Anal dusky gray forward, pale behind. 

 Caudal dusky behind, otherwise brownish. Paired fins pale. 

 Length 170 mm. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Natal, Madagascar, Philippines. Described 

 above from an example from Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa, 

 in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 170 mm. long. 

 Also two others in the same collection, 84 to 87 mm. from Santa 

 Maria, Ilocos Sur. January 26, 1923. Dorsals with more or less 

 dusky terminally, also caudal. Rather obscure dusky blotch on hind 

 portion of opercle above. Dark lines on back generally longitudinal, 

 variable as spots or short bars, especially above lateral line. 

 Caudal little dusky terminally. Anal and paired fins pale. 



POMADASYS MULTIMACULATUS (Playfair) 



Pristipoma multimaculatum Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 23, pi. 3, 



fig. 3. Bagamoia. East Africa ; Port Natal. — Gilchrist and Thompson, 



Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 6, 1908-1911, p. 154 (Durban). 

 Pomadasys muJtimaculalum Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 1908, p. 244 



(Durban Bay).— Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 



4, 1917, p. 354 (references).— Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 



2, Oct. 1927, p. 679 (Natal). 



Depth 2%; head 2%. Snout 234 in head; eye 6, 2i/4 in snout, 

 less than interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite hind nostril, length 

 3% in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws; interorbital convex; 

 preopercle edge denticulate, teeth stronger around angle. (Gill 

 rakers 12 below — Barnard.) Scales 51 in lateral line, 7 or 8 above, 

 16 below. Suprascapula hardly serrated. Preorbital scaly. D. 

 XII, 13, third spine 2% in head, second ray 2-% ; A. Ill, 7, second 

 spine 2, first ray 2%; caudal 1%, hind edge slightly emarginate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral II/5; ventral 1%. 

 Silvery; head, back and upper part of sides thickly covered with 



