APOGONID FISHES OF THE ESTDO-PACIFIC — LACHNER 607 



U.S.N.M. Nos. 150451, 17 specimens, April 1908, Catbalogan, Samar, 

 Philippine Islands {Albatross expedition) ; U.S.N.M. Nos. 142450 to 

 142454, totaling 104 specimens, 1946 and 1947, northern Marshall 

 Islands (Brock, Donaldson, Emmory, Herald, Kohler, Schiiltz) (also 

 28 specimens, not cataloged, from northern Marshall Islands collected 

 by same party) ; U.S.N.M. Nos. 114977 to 114980, 40 specimens. May 

 to July, 1939, Tutuila and Canton Island (Schultz) ; U.S.N.M. Nos. 

 52296 and 126286, totaling 10 specimens, 1902, Apia, Samoa (Jordan 

 and Kellogg) ; U.S.N.M. No. 65976, 1 specimen, 1899-1900, Papeete 

 Island, Society Islands {Albatross expedition). 



Description. — The following counts and measurements were taken 

 from 7 specimens, 32 to 76 mm. : Dorsal rays VI-I, 9 ; anal rays II, 8 ; 

 pectoral rays ii, 8 or 9, ii; vertical scale rows 24 or 25; scale rows 

 above lateral line 2 ; scale rows below lateral line 6 or 7. 



Body depth 3.3 to 3.8; head length 2.4 to 2.5; length of caudal 

 peduncle 3.7 to 4.0; length of longest pectoral ray 4.5 to 5.0 all in 

 standard length; eye 3.0 to 3.3; length of upper jaw 2.0 to 2.1; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3.0 to 3.2; snout 3.5 to 3.7; width of bony 

 interorbital 6.3 to 7.2 all in length of head ; eye in snout 0.9 ; second 

 spine of spinous dorsal longest, about 3.1 to 3.4 in length of head in 

 adults; gill rakers 4 or 5+1+12, the longest raker about equal to 

 length of longest filament. 



Caudal fin moderately forked; outline of rays of soft dorsal and 

 anal fins slightly convex; free edge of preopercle serrated; scales 

 ctenoid on body and head. 



Color in alcohol. — Body and head light tan with six sharply defined 

 brownish-black horizontal stripes extending from areas of the snout 

 to the base of caudal fin ; stripes located laterally on body about one- 

 third width of lateral line scale taken from midbody area, and 5.5 to 

 7 in eye ; width of area between stripes on lateral side of body II/2 to 

 2 times width of stripe; a dorsal stripe begins just posterior to inter- 

 orbital area of midhead and extends dorsally to procurrent rays of 

 caudal fin, dividing at origin of spinous dorsal and uniting at end of 

 base of soft dorsal fin ; a dorsolateral stripe extends from snout, dor- 

 sally, just touching dorsal margin of eye and anterior lateral line 

 pores on body and passes posteriorly on dorsolateral portion of caudal 

 peduncle ; midbody stripe begins on tip of snout, passes through mid- 

 dle of eye and along midbody, extending almost to spot at base of 

 caudal fin; a ventrolateral stripe extends from tip of lower jaw, along 

 anterior portion of dentary, thence through upper jaw and just below 

 eye, through base of pectoral fin and ventrolaterally to caudal base ; 

 another ventrolateral stripe passes from symphysis of lower jaw ven- 

 trally along inner edge of mandibular bones and lower edge of inter- 

 opercle, passing just above base of pelvic fin and posteriorly near anal 



