36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of 

 Philadelphia. 



Only the type known. 



[Miyati^ large; ^4', eye.) 

 Nemipterus luteus (Bloch). 



A single example which agrees with the smaller one figured from 

 Cavite by Jordan and Scale. ^^ Though they state '^scales about 44" 

 their figure shows 48 tubes in the lateral line, a point in agreement 

 with my example. 



MESOPRISTES Bleeker. 



Mesopristes Bleeker, Nat. Genees. Arch. Ned. Indie (Topogr. Batav.) II, 

 1845, p. 523. Type M. macracanthus Bleeker ( = Dalnia argentea Cuvier), 

 monotypic. 



This genus has been described under Datnia Cuvier by Day,^^ 

 but as Cuvier's type is Coius datnia B. Hamilton by tautonomy, 

 Datnia merges with the sparoids. 



Mesopristes plumbeus (Kner). Ayungen. 



Datnia plumbea Kaer, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien (May 12) 49, 1864, p. 484. 



Vom Capoder der Insel S. Paul. 

 — Kner, Reise. Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 48, PL 3, fig. 2. "Fundort unsicher, 



angeblich von Java." 

 Therapon brevispinis (non Steindachner) Peters, Monatsb. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 



1868, p. 256. Quingoa flum., Provinc Bulacan, Luzon, P. I. 

 T. brachycentrus Peters, 1. c, 1869, p. 705. 

 ? T. knerii Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., VII, 1873-6, p. 115. Based on 



T. argenteus (non Cuvier) Kner, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 58, 1868, p. 299, 



PI. 1, fig. 1. Kandavu, Fiji. 



Head 3 to 3^; depth 2^ to 2f ; D. XII, 8 to 10; A. Ill, 8; scales 

 43 to 50 in lateral line to caudal base, and 3 or 4 more on latter; 

 7 or 8 scales above 1.1. to spinous dorsal origin; 13 to 15 scales below 

 1.1. to spinous anal origin; 16 to 20 predorsal scales; .snout 3j to 3| 

 in head; eye 3f to 4; maxillary 3 to 3^; interorbital 3f to 3|. Body 

 compressed, deepest at front of spinous dorsal. Head compressed, 

 upper profile slightly concave. Snout convex, length f its width. 

 Eye rounded, close to upper profile, hind edge little posterior from 

 middle in head length. Maxillary slightly beyond front eye edge, 

 not to pupil. Teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer row little enlarged. 

 Mouth roof toothless. Tongue free, elongate, rounded in front. 

 Jaws about even. Front nostril slightly nearer eye than snout tip, 

 hind one slit above eye. Hind preopercle edge finely serrate. Inter- 

 orbital nearly flat. Rakers 9 or 10+18 or 19, lanceolate, 2 in fila- 

 ments and latter If in eye. Scales small, mostly uniform, smaller 



15 Bull. Bur. Fisher., XXV, 1906 (1907), p. 21. 



16 Fishes of India, I, 1875, p. 71. 



