18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou. 62. 
the head, though they figure it much shorter. The axillary pectoral 
spot they mention is hardly evident in our example. 
Family HOLOCENTRIDAE. 
HOLOCENTRUS RUBER (Forsk8!). 
Head to hind edge of opercular membrane, 2% to 34; depth, 23 to 
28; D. XI, 138; A. ITI, 9, 1; tubular scales, 33 to 35 in lateral line to 
caudal base; 3 scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 7 or 8 
below to spinous anal origin; 6 predorsal scales; snout, 4 in head; 
eye, 24 to 34; maxillary, 22 to 22; interorbital, 32 to 34. Gill-rakers, 
v1, 1+6, rx, lanceolate, seven-eighths of filaments, 2 in eye. Pre- 
opercle spine long as eye, serrae along hind edge of preopercle vari- 
able. Color in alcohol, pale brown generally, with silvery reflections. 
Obscure brown blotch at bases of soft dorsal and anal, posteriorly on 
latter, also on caudal, though extending slightly along upper and 
lower edges of fin lobes. Ventral tip and first anal ray brownish. 
Two examples, 235 to 265 mm. (caudal damaged). Zamboanga. 
Our examples appear to agree with Holocentrum melanospilum 
Bleeker,!? which has been placed as a synonym of the present species. 
Family SCOMBRIDAHE. 
SCOMBER KANAGURTA Riippel!. 
Head, 33; depth, 4 to 44; D. X—1, 11 1, 5; A. un, 10, 5: snout, 
34 to 32 in head; eye, 4; maxillary, 24; interorbital, 32 to 34. Gull- 
rakers about 18-21, firmly and slenderly clavate, very slightly less 
than filaments, which equal eye. Scales with circuli vertical, fine, all 
more or less parallel, only slightly diverging at scale center, and 
circuli about 80 to 88 in horizontal or transverse count. Color in 
alcohol, back dark greenish or blue-gray to slaty, sides and lower 
surface whitish with silvery tints. Back marked with several rows 
of shghtly darker spots. Fins pale brown, hind edge of spinous 
dorsal dusky. Iris whitish. Length, 230 to 238 mm. Two from 
Takao. | 
These agree with Sumatran examples in the Academy. We accept 
Bean and Weed’s conclusions * from their study of Javan material. 
We take exception, however, to Russell as the authority for the 
species, as he is nonbinomial, and must be replaced by Riippell. 2as- 
trelliger, with the single species 2. brachysomus, has increased gill- 
rakers, 23-44, 
4 Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, 1877, pl. (5), 359, fig. 1. 
18 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 602. 
