FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 687 



eluded within upper. Maxillary moderate, expanded behind; not 

 reaching beyond gill opening. Teeth small, even. Gill rakers 10 

 to 18 below. Vertebrae 45 or 46. Scales caducous. Free spine be- 

 fore dorsal. Anal base very long, rays 50 to 75, inserted just before 

 or behind front of dorsal. Uppermost pectoral ray produced. 



Kather large species with long anal fin and the upper pectoral 

 ray filamentous. Jordan and Scale think the anal rays of the 

 Stethochaetus higuttatus Gray were misprinted 36 for 63, thus event- 

 uating Stethochaetus Gray here accepted as a subgenus in place of 

 Heterothrissa. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Setipinna. Lower jaw not projecting. 

 &\ Anal origin before dorsal origin. 



c'. Lower gill rakers 10; A. 49 to 53 melanochir 



(f. Lower gill rakers 18; A. 72 to 75 phasa 



Jf Anal origin below dorsal, well behind dorsal origin; lower gill rakers 15 



or 16 ; A. 51 to 60 taty 



a^. STBnrHOCHAETUS. Lower jaw projects; lower gill rakers 13; A. 60 to 

 66 breviceps 



Subgenus Setipinna Swainson 



SETIPINNA MELANOCHIR (Bleeker) 



EngrauUs nielonochir Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, 

 p. 13, 1849 (type locality: Madura Strait near Kammal and Surabaja). — 

 Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 7, p. 151, 1883 (Menam). — 

 TiKANT, Service Oceanogr. Pecbes Indo-Cbine, 6" note, pp. Ill, 174, 1929 

 (Tbudaumot, Phuoc Hai, Baria). — Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine Mus., 

 vol. 1, art. 2, p. 42, 1930 (Saigon). 



Coilia melanochir Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 9, p. 418, 

 1855 (Bandjermassing, Borneo). 



Stolephorus melanochir Bleekeb, Versl. Med. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 

 16, 1864, p. 353, 1864 (Bangkok) ; Nederland. Tijdscbr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 

 35 (Siam), p. 176, 1865 (Siam; compiled). 



stolephorus (Setipinna) melanochir Bleeker, Atlas Icbtb. Ind. N^erland., voL 

 6, pi. (9) 267, fig. 3, 1866-72. 



Setipinna melanochir Bleekeb, Atlas Icbtb. lud. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 136, 1866- 

 72 (Java, Madura, Sumatra, Borneo). — Rxjtter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila- 

 delpbia, 1897, p. 66 (reference).— Webee and Beaufobt, Fisbes Indo-Aus- 

 tralian Arcbipelago, vol. 2, p. 28, fig. 15, 1913 (Palembang, Ojambi, Bagan 

 Api Api, Bunut). — Hora, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, No. 2, p. 174, 

 1923 (Nontaburi) ; Mem. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 6, p. 491, 1924 (Tale 

 Sap). — ViNciGL^ERKA, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 3, vol. 10, 

 p. 620, 1926 (Sarawak). — Chabanaud, Service Oceanogr. Pecbes Indo-Cbine, 

 1° note, p. 8, 1926 (Cambodia). — HABDErn?EEG, Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 

 101, 1931 (Bagan Si Api Api) ; vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 227, 1936 (Kapuas R., 

 Borneo). — Sxjvatti, Index Fisb. Siam, p. 16, 1937 (Bangkok; Kblong Ban 

 Pho ; Songkbla ; Bangkbam ; Gulf of Siam ; Tbale Nor ; Tbale Sap ; Maenam 

 Bangpakong).— FowLEB, Proc. Ac'ad. Nat. Sci. Pbiladelpbia, vol. 89, i). 132, 

 1937 (Tachin). 



