FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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Family I'LEL RUNECTID.L". 

 287. Platophrys javanicus (Bleeker). Palad. 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 40-49: length 8.25 in.). Anal 51; scales 74. 



Rhombus javanicus Bleeker. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., IV, 502, Batavia. 



Pscudorhombus javanicus, Bleeker, Atlas, VI, 8, pi. ccxx.xn, fig. 3: Giinther, Cat., iv, 427 (Java); Day, Fishes India, 424, pi. 

 xi ii, fig. 2. 



288. Platophrys russellii (Gray). 



One specimen from Bnlun (no. 4069; length 9 in.). Anal 59; scales 74. 



Plau tta russellii Gray, III. Ind. Zool., fig. 2. 



Pscudorhombus russellii, Giinther, Cat., IV, 424 (Umbilo River. Port Natal). 



289. Platophrys neglectus (Bleeker). Vguerangueray. 



Three specimens from San Fabian (no. 3390, 3619 and 3620: length 3.5 to 6.75 in.). Anal 57: scales 81. 



Pscudorhombus neglectut Bleeker, Ned. Tijds. Dierk., m, 45, and Atlas, VI, 8, pi. < cxxxiv. fig. l. 



290. Platophrys pantherinus (Ruppell). 



Two specimens from Bacon (no. 3409 ami 3494 : length 5.2 and 6 in.). 



Rhombus pantherinus Ruppell, Atlas. 121, pi. 21, fig. I. 1828, Red Sea. 



Platophrys pantherinus, Bleeker, Atlas, VI, 11, pi. << xxxm, Ok . ;;; I> ; , v. Fishes India. 42."., pi. xc n. figs. 3 and 4; Jordan a 



Everniann, Hull. 1'. S. Fish Comni., xxm. I'.ki.i I'.ki.".), 512. 

 Rhomboidiihthys pantherinus, Giinther, Cat., iv, 4.10 (Mauritius; Madagascar: Ambnyna; Fiji). 



291. Platophrys palad Evermann & Seale, new species. Palad. 



Head 3.75 in length: depth 2.4: eye 1) in head; snout I: maxillary 2.3, its distal end under middle of •■}•■: 

 dorsal 77; anal 60j scales 85; tnterorbital a very narrow trenchant ridge slightly higher than eye: jawB equal; 

 canine teeth in anterior of jaws; gillrakers short and blunt, broader than long, 9 on lower limb, the curved 



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Fig. 21.— Platophrys naiad Evermann & Seale, new species. Type. 



portion of lateral line 3.5 in straight, the depth of the curve 3.1 in its length: longest dorsal ray 2.75 in head; 



longest ii lay 2.1 in head; colored pectoral 2 in head; caudal rounded, 1.25 in head. Color on left side. 



Color in spirits, brownish; on each side of lateral line 2 large ocelli, each inclosing 2 large black sp (P is; 2 

 very indistinct dusky blotches on the lateral line, oneal | losterior curve of lateral line, the other at the beginning 



