FISHES OP THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 17 



Depth 3; head 2%, width 2 J/3. Snout 5% in head from snout tip; 

 eye 4, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, 

 expansion 1^5 in eye, length 2 in head; teeth minute, in bands in 

 jaws and on vomer, small patch on each palatine; interorbital 4*4, 

 level; preorbital edge, preopercle ridge and edge, entire. Gill rakers 

 3 + 11, lanceolate, greatly longer than gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 2 above, 

 6 below, 2 predorsal, 1 row on cheek; head naked, except few scales 

 on cheek and opercle. Tubes in lateral line rather large, well exposed, 

 each with large basal scale. Scales with 19 or 21 basal radiating 

 striae; 67 to 72 apical denticles, with 6 or 7 transverse series of spines; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. VI1-I, 9, 1, fourth spine 2% in total head, fourth ray \%; A. 

 II, 8, 1, second spine 4, third ray 2; caudal 1%, convex behind; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral \ 2 /i; ventral 1%. 



Light brown, inclining to whitish below. Dorsals pale brown, 

 whitish basally and soft fin with basal blackish ocellus large as eye 

 margined with whitish at last rays. Caudal whitish basally, brown 

 terminally. Other fins whitish. Iris whitish, gray above. 



Philippines, Japan. 



3009 (D. 5376). Tayabas Light, Marinduque Island. March 2, 1909. Length 

 128 mm. (1183.) Pearl gray, mottled with olive in areas tending to form 

 longitudinal lines. Upper parts with coppery reflections generally. Lower 

 surface of body white. Chin dusky. First dorsal dusky olivaceous and 

 small white spots on basal portions of membranes. Second dorsal yellowish 

 olive; large black white-rimmed ocellus basally posterior; few white spots 

 on anterior and median portions of membranes; fin rays tipped dusky. Anal 

 brassy yellow, white terminally and irregular small white blotches along body 

 of fin. Caudal dusky, tips darkest. 



APOGONICHTHYS MELANOPTERUS.3 new name 



Amia melas (notBLEEKER 1848) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1918, p. 17, fig. 8. Philippines. 

 Amia nigricans (not Day) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, 



p. 274 (type of Amia melas Fowler); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, 



p. 156, fig. 38 (same specimen). 



Depth 2%; head 2%, width 23/g. Snout 3L£ in head from snout 

 tip; eye 2^, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 opposite eye center, expansion 2% in eye, length 2% i n head from 

 snout tip; teeth villiform, in moderately wide bands in jaws, and 

 narrow band on vomer and palatines; interorbital 3J/2, slightly con- 

 vex; preopercle ridge entire, hind edge minutely serrate. Gill rakers 

 5+15, lanceolate, twice gill filaments or }{ of eye; 4 above and 4 

 below rudimentary. 



Scales 21 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 2? 

 above, 6? below, 3 predorsal, 2 rows across cheek. Lateral line 



l ni\as, black; -xTtpov, fin; with reference to the black verticals and ventrals. 



