ART. 2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN, 3 
interorbital slightly less than eye. Opercle smooth. Guill-rakers 
about 17--17, very fine, slender, elongate, much longer than fila- 
ments or nearly equal eye. Color in alcohol dull saccardo-umber. 
Several blackish dots on opercle, shoulder-girdle and row along 
lower side of abdomen and caudal base. Iris silvery-white. Fins 
pale uniform brown. Top of head whitish behind eyes. Twenty-five 
examples, largest 40 mm. Takao. 
Family SYNODONTIDAE. 
SAURIDA GRANDISQUAMIS Gunther. 
Head, 34 to 44; depth, 84 to 94; D. mz, 10,1; A. m1, 9, 1; tubular 
scales (according to pockets), 42 to 45 in lateral line to caudal base, 
and 3 to 4 more on latter; 3 (pockets) scales above lateral line to 
dorsal origin; 18 predorsal (pockets) scales; snout, 4 to 5 in head 
from upper jaw tip; eye, 3? to 5; maxillary, 1? to 22; interorbital, 5 
to 6, slightly concave. Apparently no adipose eyelid. Gill-rakers 
about 241-48, lanceolate, slender and somewhat irregular, about 3 in 
filaments and latter 3 in eye. Scales each with 3 short marginal 
striae and circuli moderately fine. Dorsal base three-fifths of fin, 
which is about long as head. Depressed pectoral not reaching within 
at least 2 scales of dorsal origin. Color in alcohol faded dull brownish 
above to pale or whitish beneath. Dorsal tinged dusky terminally. 
Tris whitish. Eight examples, 55 to 90 mm. Takao. 
Our examples all in poor preservation. Chiefly on account of their 
large scales we identify them with the present species, originally 
described from the Louisades and doubtfully Australia. Apparently 
not previously reported from Formosa. 
TRACHINOCEPHALUS MYOPS (Schneider). 
Eleven examples, 50 to 180 mm. Takao. 
Family PLOTOSIDAE. 
PLOTOSUS ANGUILLARIS (Bloch). 
Head 44; depth, 74; nasal barbels reach slightly beyond front 
eye edge; maxillary barbel to hind eye edge; body without pale 
longitudinal lines; color variably warm sepia; paler to tawny-olive 
below; vertical fins with dusky edges; mental barbels httle paler 
than upper, though dotted with brown. Length, 130 mm. Cebu. 
Also 33 examples, all young, from Zamboanga. Color in alcohol 
bister, often tinged dark grayish-brown on head. White lines from 
side of snout tip along each side of caudal base back to caudal. An- 
other from each maxillary end along middle of side of head, extends 
below eye and fades out behind along middle of side of trunk. 
Largest, 45 mm. 
