Color in alcohol dull brown, paler below, with faint 
traces of lemon-yellow insude gill-opening. Broad band of 
lemon-yellow entire length of both dorsal bases, tower 
part of body paler than back, with faint silvery tints. 
Lerigth 45 to 158 mm. Two from Manila and 3 from "Sydney", 
the latter locality likely questionable, 
Piatetx macropthalmus (Bloch). 
Head 2f to 2 4/5; depth 2.1/5 to 2 2/5; D. XII, 10, 1; 
A. III, 8, 13; scales 50 to 55 in lateral line to caudal base 
and 5 to 8 more on latter; 9 or 10 scales above lateral line 
to spinous dorsal origin, 7 to soft dorsal origin; 14 to 16 
below to spinous anal origin; 40 predorsal scales; snout 3 
to 3 1/8 in head; eye 24 to 22; maxillary 2g to 2 2/3; inter- 
orbital 3 2/5 to 34. 
Body ellipsoid; compressed; least depth of caudal pe- 
duncle if to 1 1/3 in its length or 2 2/3 to 22 in head, 
Head width about half its length. Snout slightly compressed, 
long as broad. Eye elevated, hind pupil edge about midway 
in head,. Mouth small, jaws about even. Maxillary about 
to pupil; exoansion 3 in eye. Front of jaws with close-set 
pair of canines in front and 4 below; irregular, double row 
of small simple conic teeth above, becoming single behind; 
single row of similar uniform lower teeth, though little 
larger than upper and 1 or 2 of laterals slightly enlarged 
