FISHES OF THK PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 67 



Family I-tJlTLID.-E. 



75. Leiognathus virgatus Fowler. 



Two specimens from Bulan (no. 391(3: length 2.5 and 2.75 in.). 

 Lt tognathua > Irgatus Fowler, -lourn. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser.. xii, 1904 (June 10) , 515, pi- xv, fig. 4. Pedang, Sumatra. 



76. Leiognathus dussuniieri (Cuvier & Valenciennes Malaway. 



Two specimens from Sun Fabian i no. 3210 and 3212: length i> and 6.2 in.). 



Head 3.2 in length: depth 1.9; eve 3.1 in head: snout 3.1; .-pine-shaped eresl on nuchal region not 

 reaching halfway to base of lirst dorsal -pine 



Equuht dussumieri Cuviei & Valenciennes, Hist. Xat. I'oiss., x. 56 (77), pi 283, 1835, Coromandel; Gilnther, Cat., n, 500. 

 77. Leiognathus splendens (Cuviei Warn 



Two specimens from San Fabian (no. 3! 155 and 3!»5!l; length 2.5 and 3.75 in. . one from "Philippines" 

 (no local label, No. 37*15: length 275 in. . and 3 from Bacon (no. 4030; length 2.5 to 2.75 in 



Breast scaled; supraorbital serrate: lateral line not so strongly arched a- in /.. edentidus, the anterior 

 part slightly concave; tip of dorsal black. 

 Equula tpli nit n» Cuvier, Kegne \ aim., it. 212, 1829, Indies; GOnther, Cat., n 



78. Leiognathus stercorarius Evermann & Seale, new Bpecies. 



Head 3.7 in length: depth 3; eye 3 in bead snout 3; interorbital 3; dorsal vtii. 17: anal m. 1 1 : scales 57. 



Body oblong; leratelj compressed, the upper and lower profiles al si evenly curved: jaws equal; 



depth of caudal peduncle 4.(1 in head: entire body covered with thin deciduous scales; check and breast 

 scaled: lateral line complete, with a long low curve from caudal peduncle to head: mouth very protractile; 

 the groove for the processes of the maxillary extending to b line with posterior margin of eve, the length of 

 the bony spine-shaped crest extending hack from the groove 2.6 in head; upper jaw heavy; minute teeth 





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Fig. 6. — Leiognathut stereoraritu Evermann & Scab', new specii 3. Type. 



in jaws, none on vomer, palatines or tongue: no canines: twelve gillrakcr- on lower limb, the longest about 2 

 in pupil; maxillary ending on a line with anterior margin of eye, scarcely one-half exposed; mandible 2 in 

 head, at angle "I 30 : width of preorbital 1.S5 in snout: lower limb of preopercle denticulate on its inferior 

 border; opercle entire; eye with slight adipose eyelid. 



Origin of dorsal slight h posterior to origin of ventral-, longest dorsal spine 1.75 in head, about one-half 

 depth of body (in another specimen a cotype— this spine measures 1.4 in bead and is greater than one-half 

 depth of body), the lirst dorsal spine minute, the second longest, the dorsal continuous, none of the spines or 



