FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 89 

 SYNAGRIS METOPIAS (Bleeker) 



Dentex metopias Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland. (Amboina), vol. 2, p. 51, 

 1857 (type locality: Amboina); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^eiiand., vol. 7, pi. (42) 

 320, fig. 5, 1873-1876; vol. 8, p. 87, 1876-1877 (Amboina). 



Synagris metopias GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 376, 1859 (compiled). 



Nemipterus metopias Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 22, 1906 

 (1907) (Cavite). 



Depth 3% to Z%; head 3K to 3%, width 1% to 2Ko. Snout 2% to 

 3K in head; eye 3}^ to 3%, equals snout, little greater than inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches Ys, in eye, expansion 3% to 3% in eye, 

 length 2?^ to 2% in head; teeth in narrow villiform bands in jaws, with 

 outer row slightly enlarged, also 8 upper front canines and median 

 on each mandibulary ramus; interorbital 3% to 4%, nearly level or 

 with broad median depression; preopercle edge entire, flange with 

 rather few small venules; opercle ends in broad blunt spine. Gill 

 rakers 4 + 6, short, tuberclelike, }i of gill filaments, which 2% in eye. 



Tubular scales 44 to 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more 

 on latter; 4 above, 10 below, 13 predorsal forward till opposite eye 

 center, 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Suprascapula mem- 

 branous, edge roughened. Scales with 6 to 8 basal radiating striae; 

 40 to 44 apical denticles, minute feeble points, with 3 or 4 transverse 

 series of basal elements; cuTuli very fine. 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine Iji to 2 in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 7, i, 

 third spine 2% to 2%, first ray 2% to 2%; caudal 1, deeply forked, 

 slender lobes pointed and upper little longer but not filamentous; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral Iji to 



1%. 



Back brown, with lilac reflections, till level with body axis, below 

 distinctly contrasted whitish. Whole body with silvery white sheen. 

 Iris pale yellowish, with neutral shades. Fins all uniformly pale 

 brownish. 



East Indies, Phihppines. My examples agree with Bleeker's 

 figure, especially in the narrow preorbital, depth of which above maxil- 

 lary expansion 2Ko to 2% in eye. 



11443. Manila market. December 12-18, 1907. Length, 119 mm. 

 AlOll. Data? Length, 129 mm. 



SYNAGRIS ISACANTHUS (Bleeker) 



Dentex isacanthus Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 13, No. 3, 

 p. 13, 1873 (type locality: Batavia, Java; Padang, Sumatra) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. 

 N6erland., vol. 8, p. 85, pi. (67)345, fig. 4, 1876-1877 (Java, Sumatra).— 

 Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 284 (Orion). 



Synagris isacanthus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 238 (Mus- 

 cat). — ZuQMAYER, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. KL, vol. 26, pt. 6, 

 p. 11, 1913 (Oman). 



Nemipterus isacanthus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 781, 

 1905 (Negros). 



