FISHES OF THE PHH,IPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 297 



72700 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 230 mm. As Siganus 



guttatus. 

 72699 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 80 mm. As Siganus 



corallinufs. 

 75906 U.S.N.M. Borneo. H. C. Raven. Length 287 mm. 

 84209 U.S.N.M. Philippines. Dr. Fred Baker. Length 130 mm. 



SIGANUS KOPSII (Bleeker) 



Ajnphacanthus kopsii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, 1851, 

 p. (472) 483. Rio; vol. 3, 1852, p. 445 (Banka), p. 546 (Amboina); vol. 

 12, 1856, p. 215 (Nias). 



Teidhis kopsii Bleeker, Verslag. en Mededeel. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 

 vol. 2, ser. 2, 1868, p. 291 (Rio, Bintang). 



Depth 2%. Caudal truncate. Reddish-green above, silvery- 

 yellowish below. Back and sides with silver or yellow spots. Fins 

 greenish, spines blackish, rays variegated dusky. Caudal brown. 

 Length 145 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Possibly not different from Siganus concatenatus . 



SIGANUS ALBOPUNCTATUS (Schlegel) 



Amphacanthus albopundatus Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., dee. 7-9, 1845, 

 p. 128. Nagasaki Bay, Japan.^KNER, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 206 

 (Java; Manila). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 394 

 (Nagasaki Bay; Singapore). 



Teuthis albopundatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 318 

 (Amoy, China, Philippines). — Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., vol. 5, 

 1874, p. 30 (Bowen). — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, vol. 5, ser. 

 7, 1881, p. 106 (Swatow, China). — KAroli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 158 (Singapore). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 

 Denksehr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl., vol. 48, 1884, p. 25 

 (Kagoshima). — Meyer, An. Soc. Espanola, Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 

 1885, p. 22 (North Celebes).— Eler a. Cat. Fauna Filipin., vol. 1, 1895, 

 p. 529 (Luzon, Manila, Batangas, Nasugbu). — Ishikawa and Matsuuea, 

 Prelim: Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 34. 



Sigayius albopunctatvs Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 

 284 (Sandakan, north Borneo). 



Amphacanthus aurantiacus Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., dec. 7-9, 1845, p. 

 128. Nagasaki. — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 244 (copied). — 

 Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, 1853, p. 15. 



Amphacanthus margaritifcrus (not Valenciennes) Richardson, Ichth. 

 China Japan, 1846, p. 243 (Canton). 



Teuthis brevirostris Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, vol. 2, 1854, p. 142. " Medi- 

 terranean," Indian Ocean, Red Sea. 



Teuthis nigromaculata (Doderlein) Steindachner and Doderlein, Denk- 

 sehr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl., vol. 48, 1884, p. 25. Kago- 

 shima (Name in text). 



Brownish olive, with small scattered, roundish, white spots on 

 back and sides, which much smaller than the interspaces betv/een. 

 Dark brown shoulder blotch about size of eye, less distinct with age, 

 (Gunther.) 



Red Sea, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, Queensland, 

 Micronesia. 



