108 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



interorbital; maxillary reaches l /2 to % in eye, expansion 23^ to 2j/£, 

 length 2 to 2Ko in head; teeth minute, in narrow bands in jaws, on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 4 to 4J^, very slightly convex; 

 preorbital edge, also preopercle edge and ridge entire; suborbital, 

 preopercle and cranial regions venulose. Gill rakers 5 + 11, of which 

 2 upper rudiments, others lanceolate and greatly longer than gill fil- 

 aments or 2 in eye. 



Scales 22 or 23 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 2 above, 6 below, 3 predorsal, 2 rows on cheek; head, except 

 cheek and opercles, naked. Tubes in lateral line slender, well 

 exposed, simple. Scales with 3 or 4 weak basal marginal striae; 

 circuli moderate. 



D. VI-I, 9, i, third spine 2 Yi to 3 in total head length, first ray 

 \ z /i to 2}{ ; A. II, 9, i, second spine V/% to 4, first ray 1>£ to 2}{ ; 

 caudal 1J4 to 1%, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle V/% 

 to 3%; pectoral \y 2 to 1%; ventral 2% to 2%. 



Very pale or light brown, with silvery white shade on opercle. 

 Tip of snout and chin dusky, former usually extended as narrow 

 dusky brown bar to eye, crossing same horizontally and back indis- 

 tinctly over postocular to tip of opercle. Fins very pale to whitish, 

 caudal with brownish band submarginally above and below along 

 each lobe. 



East Indies, Philippines. 



Three examples. Bolalo Bay, Palawan Island. December 21, 1908. Length 

 40 to 45 mm. 



Four examples. Bolinao Bay, west Luzon. May 10, 1909. Length 40 to 43 mm. 



One example. Busin, Burias Island. March S, 1909. Length 39 mm. 



Five examples. Canmahala Bay, Luzon. March 11, 1909. Length 40 to 47 mm. 



Eight examples. Port Jamelo, Luzon. July 13, 1909. Length 33 to 47 mm. 



One example. Port Palapag, Luzon. June 3, 1909. Length 25 mm. 



Sixteen examples. Rasa Island, Mantaquin Bay, Palawan. April 1, 1909. 

 Length 32 to 43 mm. 



Two examples. Tataan Island, Sulu Archipelago. February 21, 190S. Length 

 47 to 49 mm. 



Sixty-six examples. Tutu bay, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. Length 40 

 to 50 mm. (1962) . Without lateral stripe. Dusky band across preorbital, con- 

 tinued obscurely across premaxillar}' and mandible tip, behind eye extends 

 across opercle. Vertical fins hyaline pink, somewhat brownish line at anal 

 base on body, much less distinct on dorsal. Brown stripe through each caudal 

 lobe. 



Two examples. Ulugan Bay near mouth of Baheli River. December 28, 1908. 

 Length 41 to 42 mm. 



Seventy-nine examples. Tomahu Island, Bouro. December 12, 1909. Length 

 28 to 52 mm. Male with buccal ova. 



Sixteen examples. Makasser, Celebes. December 16, 1909. Length 41 to 

 51 mm. 



23415. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 34 mm. 



