FISHES OF THE PHILIPPIXE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 817 



hind edge of gill opening. Scales margined with many fine dark 

 spots. Band of many black spots along anal base. Fins colorless 

 or rays more or less dark dotted. Length, 60 mm. (Herre.) 



Palawan. Allied with Rashora semilineata "Weber and Beaufort. 



Genus NEMATABRAMIS Boulenger 



Nematahraniis Boulenger, Aun. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 13, p. 249, 1894. 



(Type, Nematabramis cveretti Boulenger, monotypic. ) 

 Mearnsella Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 231, 1907. (Type, 



Mearnsella alestcs Seale and Bean, orthotypic.) 



Body oblong, much compressed, with trenchant ventral edge. 

 Upper profile slightly inclined from snout to dorsal, somewhat con- 

 vex, slightly concave on head and nape. Eye with free orbital edge. 

 Mouth gape moderately large, obliquely directed upwards, lower jaw 

 slightly longer than protractile upper jaw. More or less developed 

 symphyseal knob, fitting in corresponding shallow cavity in upper 

 jaw. Pair of long maxillary barbels. Gill opening extends below 

 eye. Gill rakers short. Pseudobranchiae present. Pharyngeal 

 teeth 4, 5 — 5, 4, hooked. Scales rather large, subequal, predorsal 

 beginning far behind eye. Lateral line abruptly bent down behind 

 pectoral fin and runs close to lower profile of body, separated by 2 

 scales. Dorsal fin short, without strong spines, entirely opposite 

 anal. Anal much longer than dorsal, rays 12 to 18. Caudal deeply 

 emarginate. Pectoral longer than head. Ventral with 6 branched 

 rays, inserted slightly above abdominal profile, separated from lateral 

 line by 1 scale. 



Borneo and Philippines. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o\ Nematabramis. Barbels 1% to 2 times longer than head everetti 



a^ Mearnsella. Barbels shorter than head alestes 



Subgenus Nematabramis Boulenger 



NEMATABRAMIS EVERETTI Boulenger 



Figure 30 



Nematabramis everetti Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 13, p. 250, 

 1894 (type locality: Palawan) ; ser. 6, vol. 15, p. 187, 1895 (Palawan).— 

 Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 3, p. 46, 1916 

 (Palawan). — Herke, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, 

 p. 1568, 1924 (reference) ; Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 24, p. 262 (compiled), 

 p. 705, 1924 (reference). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. Comm. Agr. Manila 

 Tech. Bull. 6, p. 43, 1937 (reference). 



Depth 3 to 3 %; head 31/2 to 4, width 2 to 21/8. Snout 3% to 33^ 

 in head from snout tip ; eye 3% to 41/10, ll^ to ll^ in snout, li^ to 1% 

 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye or l^ in eye, length 2i^ to 2% 



