FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 1 1 



18620, 18623 [1285]. Sabooii Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. 

 Length, 140 to 168 mm. Olive and silver gray, olive forming oblique streaks 

 on side of head, more or less pai'allel to upper contour; on sides as irregular 

 blotched bars more or less connected as network. Vertical fins very pale 

 olive; dorsal more or less blotched with translucent reddish, becoming quite 

 bright on tips of hind spinous rays; anal yellowish with paler blotches; caudal 

 olive, with vermilion shades at edge in fork. Pectorals very pale clear yellow. 

 Ventrals white externally, internally olive. No red about gill opening. Roof 

 of mouth inside posteriorly red. 



4899. Siasi Island Market. February 17, 1908. Length, 360 mm. Generally 

 dull silvery, clouded with olive. Maxillary and adjoining membranes scarlet, 

 also vipper back part of mouth inside. Iris silvery, mottled with dusky. Dorsal 

 clouded with dusky, blotch of pale vermilion on each membrane, becoming 

 brighter posteriorly. Anal pale, with dusky and orange mottlings on mem- 

 branes. Caudal dusky, with pale purplish shades, with four transverse rows 

 of dark spots on membranes in crotch and tips of rays pinkish. Pectorals 

 very pale straw yellow. Ventrals dusky. 



6160. Tonquil Island, east of Gumila Reef. September 14, 1909. Length, 

 190 mm. 



A461. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length, 475 mm. 



A699. Si Amil Island, Borneo. September 26, 1909. Length, 390 mm. 



13535. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length, 160 mm. 



A1403. Tampotana Island. December 21, 1909. Length, 257 mm. 



20957. Tomahu Island. December 11, 1909. Length, 112 mm, 



A1332. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length, 328 mm. 



A1215. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length, 357 mm. 



A876, A877. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length, 288 to 533 

 mm. 



A 1606. Nafa, Okinawa, Riu Kiu. February 7, 1910. Length, 533 mm. Oliv- 

 aceous whitish below. Mouth scarlet. Dorsal and anal membranes reddish 

 with round gray spots on soft dorsal and anal, but on anal red shows more as 

 spots. Caudal reddish at tip. Ventrals dusky above. 



U.S.N. M. No. 58022. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length, 232 to 278 

 mm. Two examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 65557. Lat. "53° 59' 11" N., long. 166° 25' 09" W." (evidently 

 erroneous locality?). Albatross collection 1910 (No. 3312). Length, 575 mm. 

 As Lethrinus rostraius. 



U.S.N.M. No. 65898. Tuamotu Islands. Albatross collection. Length, 447 

 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 27632. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. M. Miller. 

 Length, 300 mm. When fresh in arrack grayish brown above, whitish below. 

 Narrow gray longitudinal lines along body, line to each row of scales. Four 

 large ill-defined or diffuse gray-brown blotches alon^ side. Inside gill opening 

 orange red. Iris yellowish. Fins dilute olivaceous, slightly grayish dusky. 

 Edges of caudal and anal pale. Pectoral pale olive, axil pale orange. Ventral 

 pale olive-gray, dusky terminally. 



Subgenus Lethrinichthys Jordan and Thompson 



LETHRINUS NEMATACANTHUS Bleeker 



Lethrinus nematacanthus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds, Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, p. 403, 

 1854 (type locality: Nagasaki); Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, 

 p. 90, pi. 6, 1857.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 456, 1859 

 (Louisiades). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 327, 1873 



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