art.2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN. 55 
maxillary, 34 to 34; interorbital, 34 to 34. Gill-rakers, 5+-9, short 
conic points, 3 in gill-flaments, which 13 in eye. Scales with 2 or 
3 basal radiating striae, circuli fine, crescentic. Pectoral reaches at 
least to straight section of lateral line on caudal peduncle. Color in 
alcohol largely silvery. Back with light, obscure, shghtly darker 
brown vertical bands, alternately wide and narrow. ‘Two examples, 
178 to 193 mm. Takao. 
Family PLATACIDAE. 
PLATAX TEIRA (Forskal). 
Head, 24 to 3; length, 14 in depth; D. V, 35 or 36; A. ITI, 26; 
scales about 70 counted close along and above lateral line to caudal 
base; tubular scales 48 to 51 in lateral line to caudal base; scales 
53 to 55 from gill-opening to caudal base; 30 scales above lateral line 
to soft dorsal origin, 47 to 49 below to spinous anal origin; snout, 
23 to 2% in head; eye, 24 to 3; maxillary, 34 to 32; interorbital, 23 
to 23. Gill-rakers, 9-+-9, firmly lanceolate ceratobranchial 4 in gill- 
filaments, epibranchial uniformly obtuse. Scales with 4 or 5 basal 
radiating striae, also 1 to 3 auxiliary short marginals, apical 21 to 
24 short denticles and circuli moderately fine. Color in alcohol nearly 
light quaker-drab, more or less uniform to brownish, long dorsal and 
anal lobes dark quaker-drab. Ventrals sooty. Iris pale yellowish. 
Pectoral and caudal pale brownish. Vertical band through eye 
dark quaker-drab, another includes pectoral base and a third just be- 
fore caudal peduncle. Length, 128 mm. Zamboanga. 
Another, young example 33 mm. long from same locality. Head, 
22; depth, 1; D. V, 37; A. III, 27; tubes 46 in lateral line to caudal 
base; snout, 3 in head; eye, 22; maxillary, 34; interorbital, 27. Pre- 
opercle edge with 6 or 7 points. Color in alcohol with dark bands 
on body much narrower than in larger examples, second only dis- 
tinct on back, third as narrow dark band connecting front of soft 
dorsal and anal, fourth as two dark blotches at last dorsal and last 
anal rays, and fifth as basal caudal band. Caudal and pectoral 
whitish. 
Family CHAETODONTIDAE. 
CHAETODON CHRYSOZONUS Cuvier. 
Head, 32; depth, 14; D. XIII, 22,1; A. ITI, 18, 1; 32 scales between 
between gill-opening and caudal base; 7 scales above lateral line to 
spinous dorsal origin, 15 scales below lateral line to spinous anal 
origin; snout, 24 in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 34; maxillary, 4; 
interorbital, 34. Gill-rakers, 6+11 weak, slender points, about one- 
sixth of gill-filaments, which 1$ in eye. Scales with 11 basal radiat- 
ing striae, apical denticles 106 to 105, circuli very fine. Color in alcohol 
