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of like color ; the dorsals are crossed by a number of longitudinal 

 rose or red stripes and the caudal has a broad red longitudinal 

 band near upper and lower margins. 



The above description is a compilation; I have not seen the 

 species. Two very small specimens from Bacon, Sorsogon, were 

 described by Evermann and Scale. This beautiful species occurs 

 from Java to Tahiti. 



30. VALENCIENNEA MURALIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Eleotris muralis Quoy and Gaimard, MS., CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. 12 (1837) 253, pi. 357; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes 

 Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 130; Fische der Sudsee 2 (1875) 189. 



Valenciennea muralis JORDAN and SNYDER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 24 

 (1901) 42 (in part). 



? Eleotris lineato-oculatus KNER, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. 56 (1867) 

 720, pi. 3, fig. 1. 



Valenciennesia muralis SLEEKER, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam 11 (1877) 

 96. 



Dorsal VI, 1-12, but the soft rays varying from 11 to 15 ; anal 

 I, 12 ; there are 80 to 90 scales in a longitudinal series from the 

 gill opening to the base of the caudal fin and 25 to 30 between 

 the origins of the second dorsal and anal fins. 



The body elongate, fusiform and subcylindrical, with caudal 

 peduncle laterally compressed; the depth contained from 5 to 

 nearly 5.5 times in the length; the head blunt, its length about 

 3.25 to 3 times in the total length; the snout convex, bluntly 

 rounded, and contained 2.5 to 2.7 times in head; the eyes high 

 up, oblique, their longest diameter directed diagonally down- 

 ward and forward; they are contained 4$ to 6 times in head 

 and If or 2 times in snout; the interorbital space narrow, vary- 

 ing from to almost an eye diameter ; the mouth slightly oblique, 

 its gape extending to front margin of eye or a little more; the 

 jaws subequal, with broad fleshy lips, the upper lip protractile; 

 the teeth in one row in upper jaw, with three to five unequal, 

 large, curved teeth anteriorly on each side ; in the lower jaw the 

 teeth in two rows anteriorly, one row posteriorly ; the outer row 

 ends laterally in one or two canines ; beginning in front of dorsal 

 fin is a low, rounded, fleshy, median scaleless ridge, which ex- 

 tends forward a distance equal to that from tip of snout to pupil ; 

 the dorsal spines have threadlike endings, second, third, and 

 fourth prolonged much beyond membrane; the interspace be- 

 tween dorsals very short; the last dorsal ray much longer than 

 the rest; the large pectoral as long as head without opercle; 

 the ventrals small, and the rather broad, obtusely pointed cau- 



