FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 45 



541 to 544, 1171. San Juanico Strait. April 13, 1908. Length 72 to 90 mm. 

 4721. Tobea Island. December 14, 1909. Length 98 mm. 



3877 (D. 5608). Binang Unang Island. November 18, 1909. Length 59 mm. 

 4322 U.S.N.M. No locality. National Institute. Length 112 to 113 mm. 



Two examples. 

 56326 U.S.N.M. Cavite, Philippines. Dr. G. A. Lung. Length 170 mm. 

 84205 U.S.N.M. Cebu. Dr. F. Baker. Length 113 mm. 



Genus CHELMONOPS Bleeker 



Chelmonops Bleeker, Arch. N^erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 11, 1876, p. 

 304. Type Chaetodon truncahis Kner, orthotypic. 



Snout produced, but shorter than in Ohelmo and dorsal with H 

 spines. Austraha. 



CHELMONOPS TKUNCATUS (Kner) 



Chaetodon truncatus Kner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., 



vol. 34, 1859, p. 442, pi. 2. Sydney; Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 103 



(note). 

 Chelmo truncatus GDnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 516 



(copied). — Waite, Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 3, 1900, p. 203 (Lord Howe 



Island). 

 Chelmonops truncatus Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 1916, p. 183 (off 



Double Island Point, Queensland).— McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, 



vol. 4, pt. 4, 1916, p. 194 (off Double Island Point); Australian Zool., vol. 



2, pt. 2, 1922, p. 91, pi. 27 (New South Wales). 

 Chelmo irockilus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, ser. 4, vol. 14, 



1847, p. 368. Australia. 

 Chelmono-ps trochilus Ahl, Arch. Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 17, 



pi. 1, fig. 2 (Sydney). 



D. XI, 26 or 27; A. Ill, 18 to 21; scales 43 to 55. Whitish with 

 5 black transverse bands and grayish band in each interspace. 

 Reaches 150 mm. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island. 



Genus FORCIPIGER Jordan and Evermann 



Forcipiger (Jordan and McGregor) Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 2, 1898, p. 1671. Type Chaetodon longirostris Brous- 

 sonet, designated by Jordan and McGregor, Rep. U. S. Fish. Comm., 

 pt. 24, 1898 (1899), p. 279. 



Related to Clielmo and Clielmonops but differing from both in the 

 greatly longer high spinous dorsal, spines 12 or 13. 



FORCIPIGER LONGIROSTRIS (Broussonet) 



Chaetodon longirostris Broussonet, Descr. iQlith., 1782, no pagination, plate. 

 Pacific Ocean near Society and Hawaiian Islands. — Gjielin, Sj'st. Nat. 

 Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1264 (Pacific Ocean). — W.\lbaum, Arted. Pise, 

 vol. 3, 1792, p. 438 (on Broussonet). — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch,. 

 1801, p. 231 (Pacific Ocean).— Lacbpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, 

 pp. 453, 473 (Great Ocean). — Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 331; 



