Mugil ; Myripristis. 53 
indigo-blue, with narrow whitish margin ; ventral whitish. 
Described and figured from a specimen 40.5 cm. long as measured to tip of caudal, 
obtained at Tokyo Market, No. 2980, Science College Museum, Tokyo. 
XXV. Myripristis murdjan (Forskal). (Holocentride. ) 
Plate XIV, fig. 46 and 47; Plate XV, fig. 49. 
Aka-matsukasa (red pine-cone). 
Sciena murdjan Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 48; Dyjidda, Red Sea. 
Myripristis murdjan Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., XXIII pt. 
Ie tigo5, p. 152, ri. V5 Honolulu. 
Habitat.—In Shore; Hawaii; Simoa; Harvey Is.; Tahiti; Fiji; Paumotu 
Is.; Guam; Laysan; New Hebrides; Raiatea; Rarotonga; East Indies ; 
Philippines ; Formosa; Kagoshima to Nagasaki. 
Head 23, height of body 2} in total length without caudal. Eye 2}, interorbital 
42, snout 44, maxillary about 2, breadth of its distal end 43, height of caudal peduncle 
32, first spine of dorsal 31, fifth spine of ditto 24, third spine of anal 37, fourth spine of 


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