558 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Chatoessus triza Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 307, 1846 (type locality: 



China Sea). 

 Chatoessus chrysoptcrus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 308, 1846 {type 



locality: China Sea). 

 Chatoessus maculatus (Gray) Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 308, 1B46 



(type locality: Canton; Chinese Sea). — Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vol. 21, p. 108, 1848.— GtJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 409, 1868 



(Formosa). — Tirant, Service Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note, pp. 30, 



174, 1929 (Hu4).— Chevey, Inst^ Oc§auogr. Indochine, 19" note, p. 8, 1932 



( Indochina ) . 

 Clupanodon maculatus Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 



p. 327, 1902 (Giran, Formosa). 

 Amblygaster maculatum Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 



p. 166, 1909 (copied 1902). 

 Chatoessus nastis (not Bloch) Gijnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 407, 



1868 (Cochin, Java, Amboina, Philippines). — Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. % p. 8, 1886 (Strickland River, 



New Guinea). 

 Konosirus nasus Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 462, 1906 



(Urado).— Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 239, 1907 



(Zamboanga). 

 Clupca (Clupanodon) libertatis (not Giinther) Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. 



Dierk., vol. 4, p. 118, 1874 (Chinese drawing). 

 Chatoessus punctatus (not Schlegel) Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 582, 



1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 

 Clupanodon paihoensis Oshima, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 11, p. 3, 1926 (type 



locality: Haiho, Hainan). 



Depth 2% to 31/4 ; head Si/g to 33/5, width 21/5 to 2%. Snout 4 to 

 41/4 in head, mandible tip well inferior or snout protruding; eye 

 3% to 414? greater than snout in young to 1 to 1% in snout with age, 

 greater than interorbital in young to equal with age; broad adipose 

 lids cover y^ of eye in front and behind ; maxillary reaches i/4 to 14 

 in eye, expansion 2 in eye, length 2% to 3 in head ; interorbital 4^/^ 

 to 41/3, slightly convex. Gill rakers 215 + 220 (132+160? in young), 

 fine, setiform, slightly longer than gill filaments or I14 to 21/5 in eye. 



Scales 44 or 45 in median lateral series to caudal base and 3 or 4 

 more on latter; 17 scales transversely, 16 predorsal. Abdominal 

 serrae 17 to 19 + 10 to 12. Postocular, occipital and suprascapular 

 region, cheek and preopercle venulose. Scales with 2 or 3 vertical 

 striae, sometimes these or only 1 complete, besides many fine parallel 

 vertical striae ; broadly entire vertically. 



D. Ill or rv, 12, i or 13, i, first branched ray 1% to 1% in head, 

 last ray Ij^ to 11/5 in head in young or 2% to 2% in combined head 

 and body to caudal base with age; A. 11 or in, 19, i to 23, i, first 

 branched ray 3% to 4^4 in head ; least depth of caudal peduncle 21^ 

 to 3 ; pectoral II/3 to 1% ; ventral 21/5 to 2% ; caudal SYg to 314 in 

 combined head and body to caudal base. 



