FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 643 



Depth 41/4 to 4%; head ?,% to 41/8, width 21/3 to 2%. Snout 3% 

 to 3V^ in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 314, greater than snout in 

 young to 1% with age, greater than interorbital at all ages ; maxillary 

 reaches % to 14 in eye; expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2l^ to 2i/^ 

 in head from snout tip; no median notch at front of upper jaw; no 

 teeth ; interorbital 5% to 6, little convex ; sides above and top of head, 

 also humeral region, venulose. Gill rakers 9 + 26, compressed, lanceo- 

 late, length 114 in eye; gill filaments % gill rakers. 



Scales 49 or 50 in median lateral series to caudal base and 4 or 5 

 more on latter ; 13 transversely, 20 to 24 predorsal ; 23 to 27 predorsal 

 scutes. Abdominal scutes 20 + 12 or 13. Axillary ventral scale 1/2 

 fin length. Scale with single median vertical stria; usually 2 or 3 

 more marginal short basal striae ; circuli very fine, in vertical parallel 

 series, none apical where cutaneous edge fringed. 



D. m, 9, first branched ray 1% to ll^ in total head length ; A. ni, 

 11, I, first branched ray 3i/s to 314 ; caudal 1, deeply forked, broad 

 lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2£V to 21^4; pectoral 

 11/2 to 12^ ; ventral 2 to 21/8. 



Back brownish, sides and below whitish, with silvery sheen. 

 Dorsal and caudal pale brownish, grayish terminally. Lower fins 

 whitish. Iris whitish, gray in formalin. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 



U.S.N.M. 48827. Maroubra, New South Wales. J. D. Ogilby. LGiigth, 80-90 mm. 



2 examples. Paratypes of Hyperloplius copii Ogilby. 

 U.S.N.M. 59946. Port Stephens, New South Wales. 1905. D. G. Stead. Length, 



68-101 mm. 10 examples. 



HYPERLOPHUS TRANSLUCIDUS McCulloch 



Hyperloplius translucidus McCxxlloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 11, pt. 7, p. 165, 

 pi. 29, fig. 3, 1917 (type locality: Sans Souci, Botany Bay, New South 

 Wales) ; Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 16, 1927; Australian Mus. Mem., 

 vol. 5, p. 40, 1929 (reference). 



Depth 3ti); head 4l^. Snout 3% in head from snout tip; eye 3, 

 greater than snout, narrow adipose lid posteriorly ; maxillary reaches 

 1/^ in eye, length 2i4 in head from snout tip ; no teeth except minute 

 line of minute teeth on tongue ; interorbital low. 



Scales very deciduous, lacking in type. Dorsal scutes 19; ab- 

 dominal 17 + 9. 



D. 15 or 16, origin midway between snout tip and caudal base, 

 first branched ray 1% in total head length ; A. 19 to 22, origin close 

 behind base of last dorsal ray, first branched ray 2%; caudal 4 in 

 rest of body, forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% in head; 

 pectoral lx% ; ventral 2l^, inserted before dorsal. 



Translucent in life, with broad silvery band from head to caudal. 

 Back with some scattered blackish dots which extend to dorsal and 



