art.2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN. 989 
to spinous anal origin; 27 predorsal scales; snout, 2% in head; eye, 33 
to 32; maxillary, 2%; interorbital, 2; to 3. Gill-rakers, 54-6, short 
tubercles, greatly less than gill-filaments, which 2 in eye. Scales with 
8 to 18 basal radiating strie, and 3 or 4 incomplete auxiliaries, apical 
denticles 111 to 119, circuli very fine. Four upper canines curved 
downward; two lower more wide set and greatly divergent. Cheek 
with 6 rows of scales to preopercle ridge. Color in alcohol dull 
brown, pale to whitish below. Obsolete pale band from supra- 
scapula backward, usually along lateral line until below soft dorsal 
when fading out, or sometimes sloping gradually up below front 
arch of lateral line, crossing latter and continued on back to last 
dorsal ray bases. From above axilla broad pale band to caudal base 
medianly, pale sulphury over hind coastal region. Iris pale yellow- 
ish. Fins all dull, lower ones ocharceous. Length, 164 to 176 mm. 
Two from Zamboanga. 
As shown in Bleeker’s figure, the narrow pale line above the lat- 
eral line, extending upward from above the eye, is not evident in our 
examples. 
PENTAPUS NEMURUS (Bleeker). 
Head, 32; depth, 32; D. X, 9,1; A. III, 7, 1; tubular scales 50 in 
lateral line to caudal base and 9 nontubular on latter; 3 scales above 
lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 15 below to spinous anal origin; 
36 predorsal scales; snout, 24 in head; eye, 44; maxillary, 2;%; inter- 
orbital, 8. Gill-rakers, 5-5 short tubercles, greatly less than gill- 
filaments, which 13 in eye. Scales with 9 to 12 basal radiating 
striae, apical denticles 125 to 150, circuli fine. Five upper canines 
forward; 2 lower more wide set and divergent. Cheek with 7 rows 
of scales to preopercle ridge. Color in alcohol dull brown, paler to 
whitish below. Narrow sulphury line from above eye over supra- 
scapula and lateral line to last dorsal ray base. Broader and brighter 
sulphury band from each side of snout tip from lower hind halt of 
eye over pectoral axil to caudal base and over median caudal rays. 
Fins all pale brownish, lower ones whitish. Length, 212 mm. to 
median caudal ray tips; 314 mm. to end of upper caudal filaments. 
One from Zamboanga. 
Also two younger examples, 108 to 110 mm. from Cebu. Head, 3 
to 84; depth, 34 to 34; D. X, 9,1; A. ITI, 7, 1; tubular scales 40 to 42 
in lateral line to caudal base and 1 more on latter; 2 or 3 scales above 
lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 3 or 4 above to spinous dorsal 
crigin, 11 or 12 below to spinous anal origin; 31 to 35 predorsal 
scales; snout, 8 to 34 in head; eye, 34 to 32; maxillary, 2g to 3; 
interorbital, 34 to 34. Gill-rakers, 5-4, short low tubercles; gill- 
filaments, 22 in eye. Scales with 9 to 11 basal radiating striae, 
apical denticles 90 to 92 and circuli fine. Color in alcohol largely 
