FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 27 



Body greatly elevated and compressed. Snout short. Palate eden- 

 tulous. Preopercle spineless. Pseudobranchiae present. Branchi- 

 ostegals 6. Pyloric appendages few. Scales moderate. Antrorse, 

 concealed predorsal spine, other spines 8 or 9, like 3 of anal, depres- 

 sible in basal groove. Pectoral long, falcate. 



One species widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific and along the 

 shores of West Africa in the Eastern Atlantic. 



DREPANE PUNCTATA (Linnaeus) 



Chaetodon punctatns Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 273. Asia; 

 Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 461. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., 

 vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1243.— Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3 1792, p. 443 

 (on Linnaeus). — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 231 (copied). 



Drepane punctata Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 132, pi. 179 

 (Malabar, Java, New Guinea, China, Australia, Canton, Endeavour 

 Strait). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 244 (China). — 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 62 (Ceylon and Java). — 

 Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 36. — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, 

 p. 107 (Ce3'lon and Java). — Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, 

 p. 257 (Singapore). — Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., vol. 4, 1869, p. 15 

 (East Indies, Fort Mackay, Rockhampton). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. 

 GodefTroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 55 (copied).— Day, Fishes of India, 

 pt. 1, 1875, p. 116, pi. 29, fig. 5.— Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, 

 1876, p. 388 (Singapore, and Batjan). — Klunzinger. Sitz. Ber. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, Heft 1, 1879, p. 363 (Port Philip, Endeavour River, 

 Cleveland Bay, and Port Darwin, Queensland). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiize- 

 tek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, p. 156 (Sarangoon, Canton, Palaboen). — 

 Meyer, An. Soc. Espaiiola, Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 18 

 (Manado, Celebes). — Boulbnger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 657 

 (Muscat).— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 21, fig. 8.— Kent, 

 Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 284 (369), pi. 44, fig. 3 (Port Darwin, Queens- 

 land). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipin., vol. 1, 1895, p. 490 (Luzon, Manila 

 Bay, Mindoro). — Duncker, Mitteil. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 

 (1904), p. 152 (Kuala Klang, Kuala Lumpur). — Regan, Journ. Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pt. 2, 1905, p. 330 (Persian Gulf). — Jordan and 

 Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 33 (Cavite).— Stein- 

 DACHNER, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 71, 

 Abth. 1, 1907, p. 139 (Gischin, southern Arabia). — Jordan and Richard- 

 son, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 268 (Manila and Lubang).— 

 Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., 1908, p. 246 (Durban Bay). — Gilchrist and 

 Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, pt. 2, 1908, p. 162 (Natal).— 

 Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 282 (Sandakan, 

 North Borneo). — Weber, Siboga Exped., vol. 57, 1913, p. 314 (Macas- 

 sar). — Zugmayer, Abhand. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Phys. Kl., vol. 26, 

 abth. 6, 1913, p. 11 (Mekran and Oman). — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 227 (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). — McCulloch, 

 Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 4, pt. 1, Oct. 31, 1916, p. 190 (off Bowen, 

 Queensland, in 16 fathoms). — Fowler, Copeia, No. 58, June 18, 1918, p. 

 64 (Philippines); Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, No. 2, 1925, p. 

 321 (Tuticorin, India); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 251 

 (Delagoa Bay and Natal); Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, Nov. 1926, 

 p. 11 (Bombay). — Lele, Journ. Proc. Asait. Soc. Bengal, new ser., vol_ 

 20, 1924, No. 6 (Nov. 1925), p. 285, pi. 12, fig. 1 (structural details and 



