ART. 2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—-FOWLER AND BEAN. 67 
paler or slightly darker, many markings as rings. At least five 
rings nearly large as eye, two above and same below lateral line and 
posterior just before caudal peduncle. Also each sprinkled with 
minute white dots. Length, 108 to 130 mm. Five from Takao. 
P. ocellifer Regan * is said to have the eye 34 to 32 in head, the 
main character of distinction from the present species. 
SCAEOPS GRANDISQUAMA (Schlegel). 
Head, 3% to 384; depth, 14 to 18; D. 81 to 83; A. 60 to 62; scales 
(pockets) about 42 ? in lateral line to caudal base; snout, 43 to 52 
in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 3 to 34; maxillary, 34 to 34; 
interorbital equals or slightly greater than eye; pectoral, 1 to 14. 
Gill-rakers, 0+6 left, 0--5 right, lanceolately robust, equal gill-fila- 
ments or about 3 in eye. Scales very caducous, with about 56 to 58 
basal parallel fine striae, minute apical denticles 36 to 88, circuli fine. 
Arch of lateral line about 3% in straight section. Color in alcohol 
with left side nearly dull snuff-brown, obscurely speckled or clouded 
with darker or nearly bister tints. Fins grayish, speckled with 
darker. Right side very pale, tinted somewhat pinkish-buff. Fins 
grayish, with trace of a blackish blotch on each of upper and lower 
caudal rays medially. Length, 50 to82 mm. Seventeen from Takao, 
Quite likely Scacops kobensis Jordan and Starks ** based on a 
single example, 83 mm. long, from Kobe, is synonymous. 
PARDACHIRUS PAVONINUS (Lacépéde). 
Head, 44; depth, 24; D. 64; A. 50; tubular scales 80 in lateral line 
to caudal base; about 33 scales above lateral line to dorsal base, 37 
below to anal base; snout measured to upper eye, 34 in head; upper 
eye, 64; maxillary, 24; interorbital, 5. Scales with 34 to 42 radiating 
basal striae, apical denticles 5 to 7. Color in alcohol with right side 
nearly warm sepia, marked with innumerable dusky to blackish vari- 
able rings, many with black central dot. Rings smaller and more 
crowded along fins marginally. Left side pinkish-buff, fins becom- 
ing grayish marginally. Length, 180 mm. Zamboanga. 
LIACHIRUS NITIDUS Gunther. 
Head, 33 to 44; depth, 24 to 24; D. 50 to 62; A. 45 to 48; tubular 
scales 72 to 80 in lateral line to caudai base; 22 to 25 scales above 
lateral line to dorsal base, 30 to 33 below to anal base; snout meas- 
ured to upper eye, 3} to 44 in head; eye, 54 to 64; mouth gape, 34 to 
52; interorbital, 44 to 6. Scales cycloid, with 387 to 44 basal radiating 
striae and circuli moderately fine. Color in alcohol with right side 
nearly fuscous with innumerable fine close fuscous-black to black 
45 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London (7), vol. 15, 1905, p. 25. Inland Sea, Japan. 
40 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1907, p. 170, fig. 2. 
