FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 11 



One example (D. 5131). Island off Panabutan Point, N. 20° E., 0.4 mile, Sulu 

 Sea off western Mindanao. In 27 fathoms. February 6, 1908. Length 65 mm. 



4466? (D. 5235). Nagubat Island, S. 58° W., 7 miles (9° 43' N., 125° 48' 15" 

 E.). Pacific coast, east coast Mindanao. In 44 fathoms. May 9, 1908. 

 Length 120 mm. 



Five examples (D. 5442). San Fernando Point Light, N. 39° E., 8.4 miles (16° 

 30' 36" N., 120° 11' 06" E.), west coast Luzon. In 45 fathoms. May 10, 

 1909. Length 73 to 112 mm. 



Two examples (D. 5480). Tacbuc Point, S. 87° W., 17.3 miles (10° 44' 36" N., 

 125° 19' E.), Leyte. In 62 fathoms. July 29, 1909. Length 82 to 102 mm- 

 (1743). Silvery, with bronze reflections, back darker and lower surface 

 minutely dotted with blackish. Isthmus keel and branchiostegal rays black- 

 ish, also edges of preopercle. Iris silvery gray. Tips of dorsals and caudal 

 blackish and blackish medianly through second dorsal. Other fins dusky. 



4433 (D. 5161). Tinakta Light, N. 12° W., 1.80 miles (5° 10' 15" N., 119° 53' E.), 

 Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archipelago. In 16 fathoms. February 22, 1908. 

 Length 67 mm. 



4382 (D. 5257). Utara Point, Bongo Island, N. 88° W., 7.70 miles (7° 22' 12" 

 N., 124° 12' 15" E.), southern Mindanao in eastern Illana Bay. In 28 fathoms. 

 May 22, 1908. Length 84 mm. 



4544 (D. 5593). Mount Putri, N. 52° W., 17.2 miles (4° 02' 40" N., 118° 11' 

 20" E.), vicinity Sibuko Bay, Borneo. In 38 fathoms. September 29, 1909. 

 Length 70 mm. 



APOGONICHTHYS STRIATUS (Smith and Radcliffe) 



Amia striata Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, 

 p. 437, pi. 35, fig. 1. West coast of Luzon (N. Lat. 16° 30' 36", E. Long. 

 120° IT 6" in 45 fathoms). 



Depth 2% to 2% ; head 2\i to 2%, width 2^ to 2%. Snout h\i to 

 5% in head from snout tip; eye 3K to 3%, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches % or till opposite hind eye edge, expansion 

 \% to 1% in eye; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws and small patches 

 on vomer and palatines; interorbital 43^ to 5, slightly convex; narrow 

 jagged infraorbital edge; preopercle ridge entire and edge entire 

 except few short denticles around angle. Gill rakers 4 + 11, lanceo- 

 late, much longer than gill filaments or one-half of eye. 



Scales 21 or 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 5 or 6 below, 4 or 5 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; 

 head naked, except some large thin scales on cheeks and opercles; 

 scales largely deciduous, tubes in lateral line slender, well exposed 

 and each with small basal scale. Scales with 10 or 11 basal radiating 

 striae; 42 to 63 rather weak apical denticles in 2 or 3 transverse series; 

 circuli moderate. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, fourth spine 2}/% to 2% in total head length, second 

 ray 1% to \%\ A. II, 8, i, second spine 2^5 to 3%, second ray 1% to 

 2Xo J caudal 1% to 1%, rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2y s to 33^; pectoral \ 2 Atol%', ventral 1% to 2. 



Pale brown generally, with silvery gray to whitish below and on 

 sides. Two obscure dull brown bands obliquely across cheek from 

 eye. Ten vertical slightly darker bands than back, each little 



