FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 13 



Philippines, Formosa, Hawaii. The above description from a series 

 of Hawaiian examples in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



One example. Danawan and Si Amil Islands, Borneo. September 27, 1909. 

 Length 55 mm. 



APOGONICHTHYS HYALINUS (Smith and Radcliffe) 



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

 p. 433, pi. 36, fig. 3. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. 



Depth 2K to 214 ; head 2}4 to 2%; width 2J/£ to 2%. Snout 4 to 

 434 in head; eye 3J/£ to 3%, slightly greater than snout or interor- 

 bital; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge, expansion 1% to 1%, 

 length 1% to 2 in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer 

 and palatines; interorbital 4J^ to 5, nearly level; preopercle ridge 

 and edge entire. Gill rakers 4 + 12, lanceolate, little longer than gill 

 filaments or 2J^ in eye. 



Scales 20 in median lateral series from suprascapula to caudal base 

 and 2 or 3 more on latter; 7 or 8 tubular scales in short lateral line 

 which about reaches front of second dorsal; 1 scale above lateral 

 line, 6 below, 3 predorsal, 3 rows on cheek; head naked, except cheeks 

 and opercles. Scales with 14 basal radiating striae; 50 to 75 apical 

 denticles; circuli moderate. 



D. VII-1,8, 1, third spine V/ s to 2 in head, third ray 1% to 1%; 

 A. II, 8, 1, second spine 2% to 3J4, second ray \% to 2; caudal l l /i 

 to \%, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2}i to 2%; 

 pectoral 1% to \%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Uniform pale brown, fins all lighter or whitish. Pale brownish 

 band, little darker than general color, from snout to eye and then 

 over upper postocular to suprascapula. Brown band obscurely from 

 lower eye edge down over front of cheek close behind maxillary. 

 Another band, though silvery white, parallels close behind. Two or 

 three transverse obscure brown bands down from spinous dorsal base, 

 first usually inclined forward or on to opercle. Iris silvery white. 



Known only from the materials in the U. S. National Museum. 



One example. Parang, southern Mindanao. May 23, 1908. (638.) 

 2031. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 35 to 47 

 mm. (2031.) (Type No. 70245 U. S. N. M. and 10 paratypes.) Color hyaline 

 pearl. Brownish red stripe from snout to eye, another from eye to throat, 

 another across nape and 3 downward from spinous dorsal base, latter more or 

 less olivaceous. Abdominal regions and lower side of head with more or less 

 silver. Iris very pale pink. Spinous dorsal mottled finely with brownish, 

 other fins immaculate. 



APOGONICHTHYS PERDIX Bleeker 



Apogonichthys perdix Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, 1854, 

 p. 321. Larantuka, Flores. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 247 (copied). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 



