FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATEKS 95 



known, I give the following modified description from the original 

 of Steindachner : 



Depth 2Y3; head 2%. Snout 2% in head; eye Z%, 1% in snout; 

 maxillaiy reaches % in eye, length 2}^ in head; jaws equal; teeth 

 small, 10 front upper canines; interorbital 5)2, low; hind preopercle 

 edge finely serrate; suborbital depth 1% in eye. 



Scales 46 in lateral line; 4 above, 9 or 10 below, predorsal scales 

 extend forward opposite eye center; 3 rows on cheek to preopercle 

 ridge, flange broadly scaleless; basal half of caudal finely scaled, 

 also fine scales at pectoral base. 



D. X, 9, I, last spine 2% in head, seventh ray 1%; A. Ill, 7, i, third 

 spine 3, first ray 2}^; caudal 1%, emarginate, lobes broad and obtuse; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%, first ray 

 little prolonged. 



Upper half of body rose red, lower yellowish with silvery sheen. 

 Dark blotch on opercle. Broad greenish-yellow lateral baud on dorsal 

 basally. Sulphur-yellow paired band begins at hind end of lower jaw 

 and extends along edge of abdomen and anal to lower rudimentary 

 caudal rays. A yellowish line delimits back, begins behind opercle 

 tip along fourth horizontal row of scales below lateral line far as end 

 of depressed pectoral. Length, 137 mm. 



2356 to 2359, 2647, 2648 [438], 7935. Corregidor Light, S. 89°, W. 7.2 miles 



(lat. 14° 24' 15" N., long. 120° 41' 30" E.), Manila Bay. February 9, 1909. 



Length, 125 to 190 mm. 

 6634. Manila market. April 14, 1909. Length, 215 mm. 



18651 to 18653. Manila market. December 5, 1908. Length, 215 to 245 mm. 

 11442, 11445, 11591. Manila market. December 12-18, 1907. Length, 103 to 



140 mm. 

 1339, 1340, 1342, 9768, 9769, 10567, 10569, 10570, 10572. San Fernando Point 



Light, N. 39°, E. 8.4 miles (lat. 16° 30' 36" N., long. 120° 11' 6" E.), Luzon. 



May 11, 1909. Length, 180 to 240 mm. 

 6915. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length, 160 mm. 

 11459. Kowloon market, China. September 8, 1908. Length, 128 mm. 

 A1012. Data? Length, 108 mm. 



SYNAGRIS PETERSn (Steindachner) 



Heterognathodon peiersii Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 nat. KI., vol. 49, pt. 1, p. 203, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1864 (type locality: Zanzibar).— 

 Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 30, 1866 (copied). — Saxjvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar, Poiss., p. 185, 1891 (Seychelles). 



Depth 4%; head 3%. Snout Sli in head; eye 3Ko, little greater than 

 snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 3, length 

 2y2 in head; 6 to 8 large front upper canines, also some smaller canines 

 in front of lower jaw but shorter than upper ones; interorbital % of eye, 

 apparently nearly level; hind preopercle edge fineh' serrated; sub- 

 orbital depth Yz of head. 



