FISHES or THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 13 



Labraciniis melanotaenia Evebmann and Seiale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 

 1906 (1907), p. 95 (Bulan). 



Dampieria mel<inoiaenia Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 

 275 (Philippines). 



Cichlops melanotaenia var. altera BLEEiKB3t, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, No. 5, vol. 15, 1875, p. 8. East Indies. 



Depth 23^ to 2% ; head 31/5 to 3%, width 13^ to 2. Snout 31/2 to 

 3% in head from upper jaw tip; eye 4% to 4%, li^ to 1% in snout, 

 1 to 11/8 in interorbital ; maxillary little inclined from vertical, nearly 

 reaches opposite pupil', expansion 1-% to 2 in eye, length 2i/^ to 2^ in 

 head from snout tip; 4 canines in front of each jaw, variably 5 above 

 and after lower laterals variably of from 1 to 3 teeth ; band of villi- 

 form teeth in each jaw, with outer row of little enlarged teeth; narrow 

 band of villiform teeth across vomer; interorbital 4 to 4^/^, convex. 

 Gill rakers 7 + 12, lanceolate, robust. 



Scales 48 to 50 tubular in upper section of lateral line, 14 to 17 + 2 

 or 3 in lower section; 6 scales above lateral line, 18 below, 26 to 28 

 predorsal; 8 or 9 vertical rows of scales on cheek. Scales with 15 or 

 16 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 60 to 79, with 1 or 2 rows 

 of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. II, 25, 1, second spine 4 to 4% in total' head length, twenty-third 

 ray lyV to 1%; A. Ill, 14, i, third spine 4iV to 4I/2, twelfth ray 

 114 to 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to 2; pectoral IYq to 

 ll^ ; ventral 1^-^ to 1% ; caudal 2% to 3 in combined head and body, 

 convex behind. 



General color burnt umber, little lighter below. Side of head, es- 

 pecially on cheek, with about dozen oblique deep brown lines. Brown 

 arc along upper hind eye edge narrowly. Hind portion of trunk and 

 tail' with 9 or 10 horizontal black lines, along median portion of scale 

 rows, alternating a scale row. Sometimes these lines all more or less 

 obliterated or absent. Fins usually pale or very light brown. Dor- 

 sals with dusky dots anteriorly soon giving place to longitudinal lines 

 posteriorly and edges of fins narrowly dusky; along dorsal basally, 

 irregularly or alternating one to several membranes a dusky bar or 

 blotch. Anals pale, with faint longitudinal gray lines, edge narrowly 

 dusky gray brown, often largely pale basally and edge narrowly 

 dusky. Paired fins pal'e, sometimes more gray to dusky blotch at 

 origin of pectoral. 



East Indies, Philippines. 

 11944, 11945, 17711. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length 

 155 to 185 mm. Body bright vermilion, stripes jet black. On top of head 

 green becomes olive and spots slaty ; on side of head stripes orange-brown, 

 interspaces olivaceous; chin and lower head smoky olive. Vertical fins bright 

 vermilion, with more crimson shade than body ; dorsal edge narrowly black, 

 fin bluish with black blotch near base antero-medially ; caudal tip blackish : 

 fins spotted in front and brokenly barred behind with darker vermilion, show- 



