FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 3 



Preopercle and preorbital more or less serrated. Gills normal. Gill 

 membranes separate, free from isthmus. Vertebrae 23, of which 13 

 caudal. Scales small, ctenoid, extend on sides of head. Lateral 

 line not extending on caudal. Dorsal long, stout spines separated 

 from soft rays by deep notch, spines not graduated. Anal spines 3, 

 separated by notch from soft rays, first spine longest. Soft dorsal 

 and anal alike. Caudal rounded, peduncle moderate. Ventral with 

 strong spine and 5 rays, inserted below pectorals. 



Genera 3, the extinct MetoponicMhys KYSimheTger = Proantigonia 

 Kramberger said to be intermediate. The few recent species of wide 

 distribution and living at moderate depths. The Atlantic Capros 

 Lacepede differs from Antigonia in its very protractile mouth. 



Genus ANTIGONIA Lowe 



Antigonia Lowe, Proc. Zooi. Soc. London, vol. 2, 1843, p. 85. Type Anti- 



gonia capros Lowe, monotj'pic. 

 Hypsinotus Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., dec v-vi, 1844, p. 84, pi. 42, 



fig. 2. Atypic. Type Hypsinotus rubescens Gunther. 

 Caprophonus Muller and Troschel, Horae Ichth. Zool., vol. 3, 1845, p. 



28. Type Caprophonus aurora Muller and Troschel, monotypic. 



Body greatly elevated, much deeper than long, very greatly com- 

 pressed. Upper profile of head to dorsal very steep, almost straight. 

 Month small, cleft nearly vertical. Mandible protrudes. Teeth in 

 jaws uniserjal, slender, small, none on palate. Cheek deep. Oper- 

 cle short. Surface of head above with rough bony striae, preopercle 

 and suborbital with slender, antrorse spines. Branchiostegals 6. 

 Scales moderate, fu^m^, rough ctenoid, present on maxillary, cheek, 

 and opercle. Lateral line concurrent with back. Third dorsal spine 

 stout, elevated, sLxth or last shortest, lower than rays. Anal spines 

 with first longest. Soft dorsal and anal long and low. Caudal short, 

 truncate. Pectoral moderate. Ventral strong, moderate, lowest in 

 ventral outline, large spine roughened in front. 



Species of moderate size and pale red coloration living in moderate 

 depths. They appear to have been unduly multiplied as our materials 

 show a great range of variation. Likely all are referable to but two 

 or three species. 



ANTIGONIA CAPROS Lowe 



Antigonia capros Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 2, 1843, p. 85. Madeira. — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 497 (copied). — Steix- 

 DACHNER, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 41, Heft 

 1, 1879, p. 10 (Yokohama). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 49, abth. 1, 1885, p. 187, pi. 

 5 (Tokyo).— Gunther, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 22, 1887, p. 44 (Ma- 

 deira, Barbados, Manado, Ki Islands, in 129 fathoms). — Goode and Bean^ 

 Ocean. Ichth., 1896, p. 229, fig. 235 (copied). — Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. 65, pt. 2, 1896, p. 316 (off Ceylon in 296 to 320 fathoms).— 

 IsHiKAWA and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 41 — 



