FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 21 



4342 (tin tag). Length 145 mm. (Station 5066.) 



A1370. Basa Island, Gulf of Boni, Celebes. December 17, 1909. Length 273 

 mm. Dusky bar from front of dorsal through shoulder to pectoral base and 

 another from nape down through eye. Fins more or less yellowish, dorsal and 

 anal with blackish vertical edges. Caudal tip yellow, with broad submarginal, 

 blackish bar. Pectoral bright yellow, except basally. Ventrals largely black. 



A863. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 321 mm. 



5064. Sandakan, Borneo. February 29, 1908. Length 170 mm. 



32702 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Roy. Museum of Leiden. Length 243 

 mm. 



43901 U.S.N.M. Mauritius. Colonel Nicholas Pike. Length 110 to 123 mm. 

 Six examples. 



52498 LT.S.N.M. Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 138 mm. As Platax 

 orbicularis. 



65982 U.S.N.M. Bora Bora, Society Islands. Length 38 mm. As Platax orbi- 

 cularis. 



72586 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 193 to 208 mm. Two 

 examples. 



Possibly Platax novemaculeatus McCulloch ^ is an extreme varia- 

 tion of the present species. It is surely with the same physiognomy. 

 The presence of 9 dorsal spines may not be specific, as Platax batav- 

 ianus Bleeker was supposed to differ from Platax pinnatus in hav- 

 ing 7 dorsal spines, or 2 more than in the latter. Barnard thinks P. 

 novemaculeatus may be a CJiaetodipterus. 



PLATAX ORBICULARIS (Forskai) 



Chaetodon orbicularis Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xii, 69. 

 Djedda, Red Sea.— Gmelin Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1265 

 (Arabia). — Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 440 (on Forskal). — 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 231 (Arabia). 



Chetodon orbicularis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 80 (Red Sea). 



Acanthinion orbicularis Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, pp. 499, 

 500 (Arabia). 



Platax orbicularis RiJPPELL, Atlas Raise Nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 67, 

 pL 18, fig. 3 (Red Sea).— Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 232 

 (Djedda).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 490 (Port 

 Essington). — Kltjnzinger, Verh. zool. -bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 

 793 (Koseir). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 218. — Gunther, 

 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 11, Heft 5. 1876, p. 140 (Society and Samoa 

 Islands). — Meyer, An. Soc. Espaiiola, Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, 

 p. 25 (Macassar, Celebes). — Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 290 

 (Bowen to Thursday Island, Queensland). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 544 (Padang). — Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 32 (Iloilo).— Evermann and 

 Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906, p. 97 (Jolo).— Seale and Bean, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1907, p. 246 (Zamboanga). — Jordan and 

 Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 268 (Ticao and 

 Cagayancillo). — Seale, Phillipine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 283 

 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische 1913, p. 313 

 (Menado, West Ceram, Tual). — Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, 



> Biol. Res. Fish. Endeavour, vol. 4, pt. 4, 1916, p. 188, pi. 55, fig. 1. Off Bowen, Queensland, in 19 to 35 

 fathoms. 



91469—29 3 



