FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 107 



Java, Celebes, Amboina). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, 



p. 335, 1931 (reference). 

 ISmaris gracilis (not Bonaparte) Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeflfioy, No 9, p. 29, 1885 



(Ponap6) . 

 Latilus upeneoides Bleeker, Natuur. Geneesk. Arch. Nederland. Indie (Topogr. 



Batavia), vol. 2, p. 523, 1845 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Dentex ruber (not Valenciennes) Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Sparoid.), 



vol. 23, p. 12, 1850; Nat. Tijdfe. Nederland. Indie, vol. 7, p. 226, 1854 (Macas- 



S8.r); vol. 12, p. 213, 1856 (Nias). 



Depth 4; head SK, profile oblique. Snout 3 in head; eye 8)3, iKo in 

 snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches )i in eye, expansion 

 2)i in eye, length 2% in head; jaws equal; 6 upper front canines, pair 

 of lower front cauines or none; front of each jaw with band of villiform 

 teeth and outer row of slightly enlarged teeth; interorbital low; pre- 

 opercle edge minutely serrate; suborbital depth \% in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line; 4 above, 8 below, predorsal extend forward 

 Yt in eye, 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge and flange naked. 



D. X, 10, second spine 3 in head, first ray 2; A. Ill, 7, third ray 8)4, 

 first ray 2%; caudal \)i, emarginate, lobes pointed; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral \)i; ventral 1%. 



Above rosy, below rosy silvery. Iris yellowish or rosy. Body with 

 9 yellow longitudinal lines shown on figure, one on each scale row 

 medianly and lowest not below level of pectoral base. Fins rosy. 

 Dorsals with yellow upper edge. Length, 178 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies. 



SYNAGRIS VIRGATUS (Honttuyn) 



Sparus virgatus Hotjttuyn, Verh. Holland. Maatsch. Wet. Haarlem, vol. 20, 

 p. 323, 1782 (type locality: Japan). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 

 p. 1276, 1789 (Japan sea).— Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 300, 1792 (on 

 Gmelin). — Forster, Fauna ludica, p. 15, 1795. — Schneider, Syst. Ichth, 

 Bloch, p. 284, 1801 (Japan).— LAcfpfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 30, 104, 

 1802 (Japan). 



Nemipterus virgatus Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 

 p. 346, 1902 (Formosa; Keerun). — Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, p. 186, 1909 (Keerun record). 



Euthyopteroma virgatum Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 

 p. 564, fig. 5, 1912 (Tokyo, Nagasaki, Keerun). — Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, 

 vol. 12, p. 200, pi. 53, fig. 205, pi. 54, figs. 206-207, pi. 55, fig. 208, 1913 

 (Tokyo). — IzuKA and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., Vertebr., 

 p. 149, 1920 (Tokushima, Awa). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., 

 vol. 10, No. 2, p. 240, 1925 (Osaka, Kobe, Mikawa Bay, Fukui, Wakanoura, 

 Miyazu).— Schmidt, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1931, p. 110 (Nagasaki; 

 Obama); Trans. Pac. Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 2, p. 67, 1931 

 (Kagoshima; Nagasaki). — Anonymous, Illustrat. Jap. Aquat. Plants Animal., 

 vol. 1, pi. 35, fig. 3, 1931. 



Euthyopteroma virgatum Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 415, 1912 

 (Tokio, Kagoshima, Shimizu). (Error.) 



Dentex virgatus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 609 

 (Hong Kong). 



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