366 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



spine 2 to 2i/8 in eye. Gill rakers 7 + 16, lanceolate, I/2 of giU fil^.- 

 ments which 3% in eye. 



Scales 90 to 98 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to 8 more on 

 latter ; tubular scales 80 to 83 in lateral line and 4 to 8 more on latter ; 

 17 scales above lateral line, 19 or 20 below, 19 to 21 predorsal to 

 occiput, not crossing median line, 6 rows in cheek. Suprascapula 

 inconspicuous, entire. Scales with 13 basal radiating striae; apical 

 denticles 12 to 20, minute, with 11 to 13 transverse basal elements; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. XI or XII, 10 I, or 11, i, fifth spine 1% to 1% in head, first 

 ray 1% to 1%', A. Ill, 10, i or 11, i, third spine 2% to 3, first ray 

 1% to ly^ ; caudal 1, emarginate, with upper lobe little longer ; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3 ; pectoral li/^ ; ventral IV^ to II/3. 



Back brown, with steel blue and lilac reflections, sides and lower 

 surfaces white. Whole body with silvery reflections. Large dusky 

 brown blotch ellipsoid, little larger than eye, above suprascapula. 

 Four deep brown horizontal blackish bands; first from middle of 

 interorbital to soft dorsal origin; second from above nostrils, above 

 eye to middle of soft dorsal base; third from snout tip to eye and 

 back along caudal peduncle to bases of upper median caudal rays; 

 fourth from maxillary to pectoral axil and back to median lower 

 caudal rays basally. Iris yellowish white. Spinous dorsal broadly 

 blackish, basally whitish and spines burnished with silvery white. 

 Soft dorsal with front edge and apex dusky and medial horizontal 

 pale brown band, fin otherwise whitish. Caudal whitish, with 

 brownish edge above and behind, and 4 pale brown transverse diffuse 

 bands. Other fins whitish. 



Singapore, Tonkin, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, West 

 Australia, New South Wales. 



22361. Cavite market, Philippines. June 14, 1908. Length 90 mm. 

 9746, 21600. Kowloon market, China. October 5, 1908. Length 188 to 212 mm. 

 2 examples. 



