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Light brown generally, finely spotted or marked with minute dark 

 brown rings, each ring enclosing a minute pale spot and usually a 

 single dark ring to a scale. Side of head with similar dark rings 

 only little larger and more scattered on opercular region. Top of 

 head back and end of muzzle dusted with deep brown. Iris brown. 

 Spinous dorsal dusky. Soft dorsal with white margin, also base pale 

 and rest of fin dusky. Anal like soft dorsal. Rounded blackish- 

 brown blotch at base of caudal large as eye. Other fins all pale or 

 whitish. 



East Indies, Philippines, Polynesia. 



Six examples. Cebu market. March 28, 1909. Length 38 to 73 mm. (1490) 



6471 to 6484. Cebu market. August 13, 1909. Length 43 to 72 mm. 



One example. Canmahala Bay, Ragay Gulf. March 11, 1909. Length 35 mm. 



APOGONICHTHYS GLAGA (Bleeker) 



Apogon glaga Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Perc), vol. 22, 1849, p. 

 29. Batavia, Cheribon, Tjilatjap, Samarang. — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 

 1, 1875, p. 62, pi. 16, fig. 10; Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, 

 p. 498. 



Apogojiichthys glaga Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., No. 4, vol. 26, 

 1857, p. 57 (Nagasaki, Java, Singapore). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 247 (copied). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nor- 

 land., vol. 7, 1873-76, pi. (33) 311, fig. 1.— Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, 

 Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 152 (Sarangoon, Singapore). — Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., 1895, p. 471 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Jordan and 

 Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 893 (copied). 



Amia glaga Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 100 

 (Singapore, Banka, Java). 



Mionorus glaga Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), 

 p. 17 (Cavite). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 

 1907 (1908), p. 255 (Manila). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2]4 to 2^, width 2% to 2Y 2 . Snout 5 

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

 interorbital or subequal with latter; maxillary reaches opposite hind 

 pupil edge till beyond hind eye edge, expansion 134 to \)4. in eye, 

 length V/% to 2 in head; villiform teeth in bands in jaws and on 

 vomer, palatines toothless; preopercle and preorbital entire. Gill 

 rakers 3 + 11, lanceolate, longer than gill filaments or \% in eye. 



Scales 23 or 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 4 or 5 predorsal; 2 rows cover cheek. Tubes 

 in lateral line rather large, moderately exposed and each with small 

 basal scale. Caudal covered with small scales basally, otherwise fins 

 naked. Scales with 18 to 22 basal radiating striae; 90 to 110 apical 

 denticles with 5 or 6 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VII-I, 9, i, fifth spine 2% to 3% in total head length, fifth 

 branched ray 1% to 1^; A. II, 8, i, second spine 3% to 4, third ray 

 \% to 1%; caudal \% to 1^, convex behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2 to 2\^\ pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral \% to 1%. 



