FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 93 



Ten examples. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length 42 to 50 mm. 



Fifty-four examples. Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan Island. April 11, 

 1909. Length 36 to 53 mm. 



Two examples. Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length 44 to 45 mm. 



Nine examples. Romblon. March 26, 1908. Length 33 to 51 mm. (472 to 

 474, 480, 482, 483). Translucent pearly, dusky above. Caudal peduncle 

 black. Opercle with 3 opalescent blue spots, 2 behind opercle, 1 on middle 

 of side and 1 on upper cheek. Dark stripe across preorbital to tip of man- 

 dible. Iris dusky silvery, with purple reflections. Breast more or less scarlet. 

 Dorsal pearl color, with slight yellowish wash. Caudal lobes very narrowly 

 tipped with black, rest of fin body color. Anal hyaline purplish, with rosy 

 tint and bright yellow bar at base resting on black, dusky continued on lower 

 edge of caudal peduncle. Vent black. Pectoral hyaline. Ventral pale scar- 

 let. Other specimens paler, without black. On opercle and shoulder 4 or 5 

 narrow vertical cadmium yellow bars. Chin and front of head dusky. 

 Greenish white and dusky line around dorsal and on top of caudal peduncle. 

 Dorsal dusky orange. Pectoral slightly pink. Caudal and anal, also ventral, 

 very pale vermilion. 



Thirty-three examples. Saboon Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 1909. 

 Length 30 to 50 mm. 



8281 to 8291, 8304 to 8313, 17780. San Miguel Island, Tobaco Bay, east coast 

 Luzon. June 4, 1909. Length 30 to 49 mm. 23 examples. 



23905. Tataan, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length 45 mm. 



Eighty-one examples. Tonquil Reef, south of Zamboanga. September 14,1909. 

 Length 34 to 50 mm. 



6646,6647,23171,23172,23425. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. 

 Length 38 to 52 mm. (1963). 50 examples. Yellowish generally. Cadmium 

 yellow duplicated stripes from eye obliquely across cheek. Another pair 

 down opercle and 2 across side under spinous dorsal, with iridescent blue 

 interval between each pair. Caudal peduncle dusky, continued along dorsal 

 base. Dorsals somewhat dusky at tip, but of general yellowish color of back. 

 Anal and ventrals pink. 



23771 to 23773. Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island. December 28, 1908. Length 

 38 to 41 mm. 3 examples. 



241. Ulugan Bay. December 29, 1908. Length 40 to 45 mm. 3 examples. 



(D. 5143). Jolo Light, S. 50° W., 3.40 miles (6° 05' 50" N., 121° 02' 15" E.), 

 vicinity of Jolo. In 19 fathoms. February 15, 1908. Length 42 mm. 



AMIA ATROGASTER Smith and Radcliffe 



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



p. 439, pi. 35, fig. 3. West coast of Luzon (N. Lat. 16° 30' 36", E. Long. 



120° 11' 6", in 45 fathoms). 



Depth 3% to 3% ; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 4*^ to 



4J/£ in head from snout tip; eye 3% to 3^, greater than snout or 



interorbital; maxillary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 2% to 2^, 



length 2 to 2^ in head from snout tip; teeth villiform,in bands in 



jaws, on vomer and apparently absent from palatines; interorbital 4}^$ 



to 4i5, level; preopercle ridge and edge finely denticulate. Gill rakers 



8 + 20, lanceolate, 23^ in eye or little longer than gill filaments. 



Scales (pockets) 24 in lateral series to caudal base and 3 or 4? more 

 on latter; 8 or 9 transversely, about 4 predorsal; 2 rows on cheek; 



