FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS lz5 



Scales 49 to 51 in lateral line; 5 above, 16 below, predorsal scales 

 extending forward opposite front eye edge; 5 rows across cheek to 

 preopercle ridge and 3 more over preopercle flange. 



D. XII, 10, I, third spine 2 in total head length, first ray 2%; 

 A. Ill, 8, second spine 2%, first ray 2%; caudal V/U, deeply emarginate, 

 pointed lobes broadly triangular; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; 

 ventral 1%; pectoral 2% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Pink above, washed with gold, below silvery. Head dull red above, 

 shaded into paler body color. Dorsal and caudal saifron-yellow, base 

 and lateral borders of latter pink. Anal and ventral colorless. Pec- 

 toral with upper rays yeUow, lower clear. Length, 250 mm. (Ogilby.) 



Queensland. 



DENTEX PERONII Valenciennes 



Dentex peronii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 245, pi. 154, 1830 

 (no locality). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, p. 85, 1876- 

 1877 (copied). 



Synagris peronii GUnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 376, 1859 (compiled; 

 gives Molucca Sea). 



Depth 3}^; head 3, width 2}i. Snout 2% in head; eye 3K, 1% in 

 snout; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3Ko in head; jaws about 

 equal; 6 small upper canines, none below, where all uniformly lower; 

 interorbital low; preopercle entire; preorbital depth 1)^ in eye. 



Scales more than 60 (figure shows about 51 in lateral line; 4 above,. 

 13 below, 9 predorsal but not extending forward far as hind eye 

 edge; 5 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge, broad flange naked). 



D. X, 9, I, fourth spine 2 in head, first ray 2Ko; A. Ill, 7, i, third 

 spine 3, first ray 2%o; caudal 1, deeply forked, slender lobes pointed; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle S%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Rose colored. On figure paler below and on fins with hind caudal 

 edge darker. Length, 150 mm?. (Valenciennes.) 



Moluccas. 



DENTEX MATSUBARAE (Jordan and Evermann) 



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

 p. 346, fig. 18, 1902 (type locality: Giran, Formosa). — Jordan and 

 Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, No. 4, p. 186, 1909 (copied). 



Depth 3%; head 3}^, profile above oblique. Snout 2% in head; 

 eye 3%, 1% in snout; preorbital depth % of eye; maxillary reaches K 

 in eye, length 2% in head; jaws subequai; single row of small cardiform 

 teeth on sides of each jaw and lower jaw row widens into band of 

 villiform teeth anteriorly, those in front slightly larger; 8 large 

 curved canines in front above, none below; interorbital 6, low; preop- 

 ercle edge entire. 



Scales 48 in lateral line (51 on figure); 4 above, 9 below, predorsal 

 extend forward halfway in eye; 3 rows on cheek (figure with 5 rows 

 between lower eye edge and angle of preopercle ridge), preopercle 

 flange naked. 



