430 
Scales 45 to 46 in lateral or axial series to caudal base and 3 
or 4 more on latter; 8 above, 2 belovf, 31 to 37 predorsal. Scaler with 3 
or 4 basal radiating striae, edge scalloped; circuli very fine, complete, 
D, 10 or 11, first branched ray 2 l/lO to 2^ in total head 
length; A, I, 7 or X# 8, first branched ray 3 2/5 to 4; least depth of 
caudal ped\mole 3 i/5 to 3^; pectoral rays I, 13 or 14, fin reaches ^ 
to 3/5 in dorsal base; ventral 3 2/3 to 3 7/8 in body from nmndible tip 
to caudal base, reaches beyond base of last anal ray though not to its 
tipi lower caudal lobe 3 l/lO to 3 l/s in rest of fish, upper lobe 1 I /3 
to in lower. 
Back and upper surfaces brown, si4#g and below silvery white. 
Sides of body-with coppery brown tinge, Iri§ brownish to whitish. Dorsal 
pale brownish, caudal little darker. Anal whitish. Pectoral largely 
blackish bfown above, narrowly along upper edge and broadly along lower 
portion whitfash; folded fin with median rsy^s edged with silvery gray, 
giving lighKer tint to fin medially. Ventral whitish, brownish submarginally 
in front. 
East Indies, Melanesia, An interesting and well marked species, 
known by the posterior insertion of the ventrals much nearer caudal base 
than gill opening. Its pectoral is also much more contrasted than the 
uniform brown pectoral of Bleeker’s figure, 
4904. Camp Overton, .Mindanao, August 5, 1909, Length 223 mm. 
8017, 8018. Catbalogan, Samar, April 16, 1908, Length 193 to 215 mm* 
