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anteriorly and posteriorly with white; snout yellow; the tip of 

 upper jaw black; a large black wedge-shaped mark on shoulder 

 from spinous dorsal to the white border of the ocular band ; this 

 black area has a narrow prong of black extending from its pos- 

 terior margin to upper tip of opercle ; a narrow black margin to 

 dorsal; a wide submarginal black band on posterior half of 

 caudal; tip of caudal white; 12 to 14 rather wide, indistinct, 

 brownish lines extending obliquely forward and downward on 

 rows of scales; anal yellowish, with a marginal brown band; 

 ventrals and pectorals yellowish. 



This species is related to C. lunula Lacepede (C. fasciatus 

 Bleeker), but differs in lacking the second black area on the 

 shoulders and the semilunar band of black on soft dorsal, our 

 specimen being without any black on the caudal peduncle, which 

 according to Gunther is present in C. lunula at all ages. 



Type is No. 6321, Bureau of Science collection, collected in 

 the Hongkong market by Seale, 1910. 



Microcanthus strigatus (Cuv. and Val.). 



Microcanthus strigatus Cuv. and Val., Hist. Pcis. (1831), 7, 25, PI. 

 120; Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1880), 11, 34; Jordan and 

 Fowler, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus. (1902), 25, 541. 



Color in alcohol yellowish with about 5 or 6 longitudinal, 

 slightly inclined, brown stripes, about the width of the eye. 

 Spinous dorsal blackish, stripes on body projected into anal fin, 

 ventrals with dusky tip ; pectorals and caudal yellowish. (6313.) 



SIGANID^E. (Siganids) 

 Siganus oramin (Bloch and Schn.). 



Scattered white spots over body, caudal indistinctly barred, 

 upper margin of eye serrated ; a distinct shoulder spot. Length, 

 from 80 to 205 millimeters. (6417, 6442, 6446, 6451, 6482, 6483, 

 6518, 6574, 6604, 6606, 6613, 6618, 6620, 6622, 7392.) 



MONACANTHID^E. (File fishes, hih pe yang) 



Monacanthus chinensis (Bloch). 



Monacanthus chinensis Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1870), 8, 

 236; Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1845 (1846), 201. 

 (6566, 6634.) 



Monacanthus setifer Bennett. 



Monacanthus setifer Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1870), 8, 239; 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japonica (1842), 290, PI. 130, fig. 1 (good). 



♦Dorsal, 32 ; anal, 32. The second dorsal ray produced. Color 

 in alcohol brown with obscure blackish spots or streaks. 



