16 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



APOGONICHTHYS ALBOMARGINATUS (Smith and Radcliffe) 



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

 1912, p. 438, pi. 35, fig. 2. Cavite, Luzon. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2%, to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 4J^ 

 to 5 in head from snout tip; eye 3}4 to 3%, greater than snout or 

 interorbital; maxillary 1% to 2 in head, reaches % to % m e y e > 

 expansion 1% to 1%; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on vomer 

 and palatines; interorbital 4% to 5 in head, slightly convex; pre- 

 opercle ridge and edge entire. Gill rakers 3 + 10, lanceolate, greatly 

 longer than gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on latter; 

 2 above, 7 below, 5 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; head naked, except 

 cheeks and opercles. Tubes in lateral line all simple, large, well 

 exposed, and each with small basal scale. Scales with 12 basal radi- 

 ating striae; 76 to 83 apical denticles, with 7 or 8 transverse series; 

 circuli fine. 



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

 ray 13^ to 1%; A. II, 8, 1, second spine 334 to 3%, second ray 1% to 

 2; caudal 1^ to l%,hind edge convex; least depth of caudal ped- 

 uncle 2y 8 to 2)4; pectoral \% to 1%; ventral 1% to V/%. 



Brown above, lighter below. Head sprinkled with dull or obscure 

 brownish specks or dots, very numerous on mandible anteriorly and 

 on cheek, but few on opercle above. Iris whitish, with gray above. 

 Dorsals and caudal pale brownish. Soft dorsal with obscure darker 

 subbasal longitudinal band or line. Anal light brown, though its 

 front edge narrowly and also that of caudal below, whitish. Paired 

 fins pale. 



Known only from the Philippines. 



12825. Cavite and San Roque markets. June 27, 1908. Length 75 mm. 

 12830. Cavite and San Roque markets. June 27, 1908. Length 101 mm. 



(Type, No. 68402, U.S.N. M.) 

 5972. Cavite market. December 1, 1908. Length 82 mm. 

 20556 and 20557. Subig market, Tilig. July 14, 1908. Length 67 to 71 mm. 

 One example. Subig Bay. January 7, 1908. Length 58 mm. 



APOGONICHTHYS CARINATUS (Cuvier) 



Apogon carinatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 157. Japan. — 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pt. 1, 1842, p. 3 (Nagasaki). — Richard- 

 son, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 221 (copied). — Nystrom, Svensk. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl., 1887, p. 8 (Nagasaki). 



Apogonichthys carinatus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., No. 4, vol. 26, 

 1857, p. 56, pi. 1, fig. 3 (Nagasaki).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 

 1, 1870, p. 247 (copied).— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 1895, p. 471 (Luzon). — 

 Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 892, fig. 1 

 {Misaki, Wakanoura, Nagasaki). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 

 1912, p. 412 (Shimizu). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 

 10, No. 2, 1925, p. 230 (Wakanoura, Toba, Kochi, Misaki). 



