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fish than X. punctatum { Ji I amentosum), has thicker and less flexible, dorsals pines, 

 and has a dark spot on each scale above the lateral line, and four or Ave less dis- 

 tinct rows of such spots below it. 



Family SCLENID/E. 



198. Pseudotolithus brunneolus sp. nov. (Plate LXXI.) 



(Native name Ga bang he.) 



Head 3.40 ; depth 4 ; eye 4 in head ; nose 4 ; maxillary 2.2 ; interorbital 4 ; 

 dorsal X, 30-31 ; anal II, 7-8; scales 8-56-13. Body moderately elongate, com- 

 pressed ; head bluntly pointed ; mouth large, oblique ; jaws equal ; maxillary reach- 

 ing slightly past the middle of the orbit; interorbital space slightly convex, nearly 

 flat; opercle with a weak flat spine; upper and lower limb of preopercle each with 

 a few small and weak denticles ; gill-rakers on lower limb of outer arch twelve, 

 counting rudiments, the longest equal in length to the corresponding filaments, less 

 than one-half eye ; teeth of upper jaw in two series, the outer consisting of a single 

 row, strong, recurved, and canine-like ; the inner villiform teeth presenting the appear- 

 ance of a band in the posterior half of the jaw, but forming a single or nearly single 

 row anteriorly ; sides of lower jaw with canine-like teeth in a single row ; some 

 smaller teeth behind the canines at the symphysis. Origin of dorsal slightly be- 

 hind that of pectorals ; spinous and soft dorsals connected by a low membrane ; 

 third dorsal spine longest, 2.6 in head ; anal spines weak, the second spine half the 

 length of the longest rays ; origin of anal under middle of soft dorsal, its base 4.7 

 in head; ventrals 1.5 in head; pectorals 1.2; caudal rhomboidal, 1.4 in head. 

 Entire body and head scaled, except maxillary and lower jaw ; lateral line com- 

 plete, extending to end of caudal, the pores branched, 54 to 56 in number to base 

 of caudal. 



Color in spirits brownish above ; paler (silvery), more or less densely punctu- 

 lated with dusky on belly, breast, and lower parts of head and under jaws ; a large 

 diffuse dark blotch on opercle ; spinous dorsal dusky, darkest on outer two-thirds ; 

 soft dorsal dusky, somewhat darker along margin ; anterior part of anal brown- 

 specked ; posterior half of pectorals dusky ; ventrals plain. 



Described from three specimens, eight inches long, from Takao. We refer this 

 species to the genus Pseudotolithw Bleeker, as a provisional matter. It is not clear 

 that this genus differs from Pseudoscixna and it has much in common with Odon- 

 torcion and with Corvula. 



199. Corvula argentata Houttuyn. 

 Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 



