FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 289 



d^. Body marked with spots, at least on back. 



€\ Back with pale round spots, oblong on middle of side, form longi- 

 tudinal streaks on belly; head uniform, also fins javus 



e^. Back spotted, but no longitudinal streaks on bell}'. 

 p. Fins dotted or variegated with darker. 



g^. No dark shoulder blotch; body above with golden rounded 

 spots, usually smaller towards abdomen. 



h'^. Some brown dots on vertical fins concatenatus 



h^. Fins greenish, spines blackish, rays variegated with dusky. 



kopsii 

 g^. Dark shoulder blotch, about size of eye. 



i'. Brownisli olive, with small, scattered, roundish, whitish 

 spots on back and sides, which much smaller than inter- 

 spaces between albopunctatus 



i-. Whole head, trunk, tail and caudal base covered with 



minute close-set whitish dots pnnctatissimus 



p. Fins immaculate; body red, with numerous undulated and reticu- 

 lated transverse longitudinal short blue lines labyrinthodes 



d^. Brown, with vermiculated bluish lines on head and whole body except 



belly, caudal dotted all over with brown vermiculatus 



c^. Caudal deeply emarginate or forked. 



jK No dark shoulder blotch; orange, with small sky-blue 

 dots on body and bases of caudal and anal; dots very 

 small, much smaller than interspaces between, but 

 larger and more crowded on head and thorax. 



corallinus 

 j^. Dusky shoulder blotch equals eye; brown, minutely dot- 

 ted all over with white, dots invading dark shoulder 



blotcli sutor 



b\ Depth 234 to 3. 



kK Caudal deeply emarginate or forked. 



/'. Back with rounded whitish dots which become 

 oblong on sides and much smaller than spaces 



between oramin 



l^. Brown (in life body covered with small, close-set 

 yellow spots or blotches equal to or larger than 

 spaces between) ; dorsal, anal and ventral blotched 



with dusky _rostratus 



k^. Caudal scarcely or but slightly emarginate. 



m". Brown, dotted all over whitish, dots very small 

 and extend on dorsal and anal; caudal and 



paired fins brown tumifrons 



7)1^. Back and sides with numerous blue dots; dark 



blotch at shoulder canaliculatus 



'. Ground color blue, with golden hexagonal dots placed densely and covering 

 head, body and vertical fins; caudal deeply emarginate; depth 23^. 



punctatus 

 •. Ground color lighter than markings, which in form of brown spots or ver- 

 miculated streaks; depth 2 to 2^. 



7i'. Caudal subtruncate or moderately emarginate. 

 0'. Reddish, with reddish-gray cloudings en head ; 

 body, caudal and bases of dorsals and anals 

 densely spotted with reddish brown. 



guttatus 



