anal rey 11/3 to 1 2/5; caudal slightly emarginate behind, 
little larger than head to 1 1/8 its length; pectoral 1 to 
11/10: ventral 4 iva te 1 1/4. 
Color in alcohol pale umber-brown generally. Edge of 
each scale denkes. forming a reticulate pattern. FYrectoral 
axil with small dusky-brown spot, much less than pupil. Fins 
dull brown, spinous dorsal and ventral blackish. Length 45 
to 78mm, Three without definite locality, tikety- from Meus, 
BLés--ePs git ee ee Ln, BN pe soe A ye “4 : fdr Ch. DA. Py a Fk Le OO! VR Ay Qe me AR 
taal Peay + f~ , 
We have also examined a series of Philippine examples in 
the Academy, which were wrongly recorded as b. trimaculatus by 
Lod 9 
Fowler. The figure of D. albisella of Jordan and Evermann* " 
is simply a copy of Bleeker's figure of D. trimaculatus’?° 
$e 
with the light spot at the twelfth and thirteenth scales of the 
lateral line darkened by the engrever. Although they contended 
D. albisella was apparently distinet no characters of fistinc- 
tion were given, and the inference would be setherea from their 
description that Db. albisella has a large white blotch on the 
side in youth, which disappears with age. Later Jordan and Seale 
state “it has a white vertical bar wheré the latter species 
D. trimaculatus has a white ae Kendall and Goldsborough 
ngs Copeia, No. 58, June 18 1918, p. 64. re 
rate Bull. U.S.Fish Com., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 267. 
193 Tetradrachmum trimaculatum Bleeker, Atlas Ich.,vol.9,1879, 
Pil, 407, Tic, 8. 
194 
Bull. Bur.Fisher.,vol.25,1905(1906), p. 290. 
