FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 361 



convex; preopercle edge flexible. Gill rakers 7 + 14, lanceolate, slen- 

 der, greatly longer than gill filaments or % of eye. 



Scales 84 along above lateral line to caudal base; enlarged scales 

 47 in lateral line to caudal base and 30 more out over caudal fin 

 medially; 10 scales above lateral line, 8 below, 38 predorsal forward 

 to snout tip, 16 rows posteriorly downward across cheek to lower 

 hind edge. Scales with 9 or 10 radiating short basal striae; 30 or 31 

 slender, short, minute apical denticles, with 5 to 8 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. X, I, 41, 1, third spine 2% in head, thirty-fourth ray 2%; A. II, 7, 

 second spine 5, second ray 2%; caudal 1)^, cuneate, ends in long me- 

 dian point; least depth of caudal peduncle 4%; pectoral Ijio; ventral Iji. 



Brown, paler below. Iris brassy. Fins all uniform brownish. 



India, Burma, East Indies. I have four examples, evidently the 

 young, as Day states it reaches 1,515 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 11456. East Indies. Dr. H. C. Wood. Length, 205 mm. 

 Three examples, A.N.S.P. Bagan Datah, west coast Malaya. October 19, 1922. 

 Department of Fisheries, Singapore. W. Birtwistle. Length, 137 to 157 mm. 



PAMA PERARMATA (Chabanaud) 



Sciaenoides perarmatus Chabanaud, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 32, p. 266, 

 1926 (type locality: Gulf of Siam); Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 6, vol. 2, 

 p. 38, pi. 2, figs. 1-5, 1927 (types). 



Depth 4 to 02', head 4 to 5. Snout 4% in head from snout tip; 

 eye 4 to 6, 1}^ in snout, IK to 2 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches half 

 an eye diameter behind eye, expansion subequal with eye, length 2 

 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, very numerous, both jaws with 

 outer row of short canines; interorbital low. Gill rakers 6 or 7+ 13, 

 of which 2 rudiments. 



Scales 65 along above lateral fine, 55 along below lateral line; 

 tubes 48 to 50 in lateral Line; 12 scales above, 15 below to middle of 

 belly. Band of small scales along dorsal base. 



D. VI or VII, 42 to 44, last spine enlarged and robust with age, 

 third ray 2}^ in total head length; A. II, 8 or 9, second spine enlarged 

 and robust with age, 2 in head; caudal IK, cuneate; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 4K; pectoral nearly as long as head; ventral 1%, spine 

 greatly enlarged, like last dorsal and second anal spines. 



Dull olive-gray. Opercular membrane and spinous dorsal blackish. 



Length, 190 to 530 mm. (Chabanaud.) 



Gulf of Siam. 



Genus COLLICHTHYS Giinther 



Collichthys Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 312, 1860. (Type, Sciaena 

 lucida Richardson, designated by Jordan and Eigenmann, Rep. U. S. 

 Fish Coram., pt. 14, p. 348, 1886 (1889).) 



Hemisdaena Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 141, 1863. (Type, 

 Collichthys lucidus GIjnther, monotypic.) 



