FISHES COLLECTED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BY 

 MAJ. EDGAR A. MEARNS, SURGEON, U. S. ARMY. 



By Barton W. Evermann, 



Curator, Diiisiun <>f Fishes, 



AND 



Alyin Seale, 



Of Palo Alto, California. 



While stationed in the Philippines during- 1904, Maj. Edgar A. 

 Mearns, surgeon, U. S. Arnit, made a small collection of tishes, chiefly 

 at Manila. 



The collection contains 17 specimens (representing 9 species) from 

 Manila, 4 specimens (8 species) from Jolo, Sulu Archipelago, 2 speci- 

 mens (1 species) from Siassi, Siassi Island, and 10 specimens (4 species) 

 from Caldera Bay at Zamboanga, Mindanao Island; the total number 

 of species being' 17, represented by 33 specimens. 



The collection, though small, is of interest in that it contains three 

 new species and that no specimens had been previously obtained from 

 Jolo, Siassi, or Zamboanga. 



The types of the new species and a series of specimens of all the 

 other species are deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 



Family CHANID^. 



I. CHANOS CHANOS (Forskai). 



Mugil chanos FoRSKAL, Desc. Aiiini., p. 74, 1875, Red Sea. 



Chanos chanos, Jordan and Evermaxx, Fishes Hawaiian Islands in Bull. U. S. 

 Fish Comm., XXIII, 1903 (1905), Pt. 1, p. 56, fig. 10. 



Head 3.75 in length (not including opercular membrane); depth 4 

 eye 3.50 in head; snout 3.85; interorbital 3; D. II, l-t; A. I, 9 

 scales 85 to end of caudal vertebra'; membranes entirely united across 

 istlnnus; gillrakers very tine and crowded together, more than 100 

 on lower limb, their length 1.25 in pupil; no pharyngeal teeth; origin 

 of dorsal midway between tip of snout and caudal; origin of ventral 



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