FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 527 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Delagoa Bay, Natal, Cape of Good 

 Hope, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, India, Pinang, East Indies, 

 Philippines, Hainan, China, Formosa, Japan, Korea, Queensland, 

 New South Wales, Hawaii. Also in the tropical Atlantic. I feel 

 obliged to consider the nominal species described by Regan as Flops 

 hawaiensis and Elops austraJis as synonyms. Likewise his interpre- 

 tation of Elops machnata breaks down upon a survey of the materials 

 before me. The distinctions used in grouping Elops machnata and 

 Elops lacerta with "mandible projects, covers front part of premaxil- 

 lary band of teeth when mouth closes" will not hold, as various con- 

 ditions occur. Thus in some specimens the mandible is shorter than 

 the snout, or it may protrude, but never covers or conceals the pre- 

 maxillary teeth, even with age. Elops max;hnata and Elops lacerta 

 may hold on their fewer vertebrae 63 or 64, compared with 78 or 79 

 for the other species. 



22346. Dampalit, near Malabon. August 10, 1908. Length, 135 mm. Lower 



gill rakers 14. 

 13186. Iloilo market. June 1, 1908. Length, 179 mm. Lower gill rakers 15. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 8020. Hong Kong, China. William Stimpson. Length, 353 mm. 



Scales 84 + 7. Lower gill rakers 14. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 47921. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 600 mm., 



caudal broken. Scales 87 + 7. Gills taken out. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 51032. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 273 



mm. Scales 90 + 10. Lower gill rakers 13. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 55455. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 



228-277 mm. Scales 83 to 86 + 9 or 10. Lower gill rakers 13 to 15. 3 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59853. New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 460-470 mm., 



caudals broken. Scales 89 to 93+10. Lower gill rakers 14 or 15. 2 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71800. Okinawa. Riu Kiu. Alhatross collection. Length, 288 



mm. Scales 90 + 8. Lower gill rakers 15. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72485. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Scales 93 + 9. 



Lower gill rakers 15. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72486. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Scales 70 + 8. 



Lower gill rakers 15. Length 265 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72487. Batavia, Java. Bryant and Palmer. Scales 82 + 8. 



Lower gill rakers 14. Length, 253 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 83103. Hilo, Hawaii. U. S. Exploring Expedition. Length, 735 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 83444. No locality. U. S. Exploring Expedition. Fins. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 1181. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. W. H. Jones. Length, 266 mm. 



Family ALBULIDAE 



Body elongated, belly flattened. Snout conic, conspicuous, partly 

 quadrangular. Eye medial. Mouth inferior, bordered above for 

 greater extent by premaxillaries, and only hind part of edentulous 

 maxillaries. Villiform teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines; coarse 

 blunt teeth on pterygoids, sphenoid, and tongue. Lower jaw without 



