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predorsal scales. Gill-rakers, 3-++8, lanceolate, one-fourth of gill- 
filaments, which 24 in eye. Cheek scales cycloid. Scales with 7 
radiating basal striae, apical denticles 44 to 47 and circuli mod- 
erately fine. Color in alcohol faded largely pale uniform brownish. 
Soft dorsal gray-white, with few obscure grayish spots. Spinous 
dorsal with dusky dots terminally. Iris slaty. Length, 125 mm. 
Cebu. 
SILLAGO JAPONICA Schiegei. 
Head, 32 to 33; depth, 6 to 64; D. XI, 21 or 22; A. I, 22 or 28; 
scales, 66 to 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 or 6 more on 
latter; 8 or 4 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 10 
below to spinous anal origin; 21 to 23 predorsal scales. Gull-rakers, 
3+10, lanceoltate, slightly less than gill-filaments, which 3 in eye. 
Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiating striae, apical denticles 33 to 35, 
circuli moderate. Cheek scales ctenoid. Color in alcohol faded 
largely dull brownish, back, dorsals and caudals shghtly darker. 
Length, 87 to 104 mm. Ten from Takao. 
Though this species appears to differ in the alleged fewer scales 
above the lateral line to the spinous dorsal! origin and the ctenoid 
cheek scales, it is very close to S. sthama. . 
Family OPHICEPHALIDAE. 
OPHICEPHALUS STRIATUS Bloch. 
Head, 33 to 84; depth, 54 to 62; D. 43; A. 26; scales, 54 or 55 in 
lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 4 scales above lateral 
line to dorsal origin, 7 below from posterior division of lateral line 
to anal origin; 14 or 15 predorsal scales; snout, 44 to 54 in head 
from upper jaw tip; eye, 5 to 6; maxillary, 24 to 23; interorbital, 
4to 44. Gill-rakers, about 11 low broad tubercles; gill-filament, 2 in 
eye. Scales with 17 or 18 basal radiating striae, 5 to 10 pronounced 
apical convergent circuli and other circuli moderate. Color in alco- 
hol with sides and above chestnut-brown, darker above. Along sides 
of trunk mostly two parallel rows of rather large dark blotches of 
darker. These blotches variable, many as oblique streaks along sides 
of trunk. Fins grayish-brown with darker or dusky streaks on dor- 
sal and anal. On caudal five or six transverse dark streaks, broader 
and darker basally. Pectoral pale brown, with dull olive tints and 
obscure dusky streaks. Ventral white, ike lower surface of both 
head and trunk. Dark brown streak from infraorbital edge back 
toward preopercle angle. Length, 88 to 121mm. Twenty-two from 
fresh water canal of St. Maria, Zamboanga. February 27, 1914. 
