128 
across chesek to preopercle ridge; except spinous dorsal 
fine scales more or less over fins basally; scales small 
on most of head and breast; lateral line largely concurrent 
with dorsal profile, slopes down obliquely along caudal pe- 
duncle side to caudal base medially. Third dorsal spine 2 1/6 
in head; seventh dorsal ray 2; third anal spine 24; second 
anal ray 1 2/3; caudal 1 1/10; pectoral 1 1/5; ventral 1 1/3. 
Golor in alcohol dull umber-brown, scarcely paler below, 
marked everywhere with rounded deeper brownish,spots, most all 
little less than pupil. Sides and lower surface of head, and 
trunk with dull gamboge tint on many scales, Except uniform- 
ly dull brown pectoral and ventral dark spots extend over 
all other fins, where more crowded and pronounced, Only lower 
surface of head, bresst and abdomen somewhat uniform, Lips 
muddy=-brown. Iris Gull straw-color. Spinous dorsal edged 
dusky. Length 337 mm, (fish skinned out). Sulu, 
it differs a little from Bleeker's figurel?8 in that 
the suprascapula is only obsoletely serrate and the ventral 
apparently uniform dark brownish, 
Scolopsis monogrammse (Cuvier). Pare OY nie Hi 
Head 3 1/5 to 34; depth 3 to 3 2/5; ts eg Oy Bt Ae Bods 
7, 1; scales 44 to 48 in lateral line to caudal base, and l 
to 3 more on latter (10 to 12 non-tabular scales on caudal 
base); 6 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin; 
4 to soft dorsal origin, 11 below to spinous anal origin; 
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Atlas Ich, ,vol.7,1875<-6, Pl, 303, fig. 2 
