FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 779 



membranes united to isthmus, opposite to hind part of eye. Pharyn- 

 geal teeth spoon shaped, 1, 3, 5-5, 3, 1. Scales large, radially striated 

 or granulated, some with reticulated lines. Lateral line complete, 

 somewhat curved towards belly, sensory tubes undivided. No sens- 

 ory folds on head and no tubercles on snout. Dorsal with 8 branched 

 rays and low basal scaly sheath, origin opposite ventral origin, last 

 osseous ray feeble and finely serrated. Anal with 5 branched rays. 

 Fresh waters of the East Indies, Malacca, Tenasserim, Siam, Indo 

 China and the Philippines. 



HAMPALA LOPEZI Herre 



Figure] 18 



Hampala lopezi Hebre, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, p. 

 1568, 1924 [type locality; Busuanga (no description)]; Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 24, p. 275 (types), p. 705, 1924 (reference). — Roxas and Maktin, 

 Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 40, 1937 (reference). 



Figure 18. — Hampala lopezi Herre : Sijecimen from Port Caltom. 



Depth 3% to 3% ; head 3 to 31^, width 2 to 21/5. Snout 3Vio to 

 3% in head; eye 41/10 to 51/10, V/s to 1% in snout, ll^ in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eye, length 3 to 3i/'io in head; barbel equals eye; 

 interorbital 3% to 3%, broadly convex; suborbitals narrow, barely 

 cover 14 of cheek. Gill rakers 2 + 9, lanceolate, l^ of gill filaments, 

 which 1% in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 1, 3, 5-5, 3, 1, with slight hooks 

 and grinding surfaces. 



Scales 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 5 

 above, 3 below, 10 predorsal, 12 around caudal peduncle. Scales 

 with 9 to 11 basal and 14 apical radiating striae, latter more or less 

 imperfect; circuli concentric, fine, imperfect apically. 



D. IV, 8, I, fourth spine slender and little flexible, with feeble ser- 

 rae along hind edges terminally, first branched ray ll^ to li^ in 

 head ; A. iii, 5, i, first branched ray 1% to V/g ; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral 1% to 2; caudal 

 2% to 31/^ in rest of body. 



