FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 43 



Seychelles, East Indies, Philippines. Alcoholic examples often 

 show in contrast the narrow dark ring around the edge of the eye 

 socket. 



One example. Biri Channel. June 1, 1909. Length 44 mm. 



21627 [1616]. Caracaran, Batau Island. June 8, 1909. Length 55 mm. 



One example. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 23, 1908. Length 53 mm. 



Two examples. [719, 720.] Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 23, 1908. I^ength 



60 to 61 mm. 

 One example. Philippines. Length 61 mm. 

 One example. Port Palapag. June 3. 1909. Length 62 mm. 

 Two examples. Rasa Island, Palawan. April 1, 1909. Length 35 to 51 mm. 

 Two examples. Romblon Reef. March 25, 1908. 437, 438. Length 56 to 



58 mm. 

 48743 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Mus. Phila. Length 63 mm. 



Family LOBOTIDAE 



Body oblong, compressed, equally developed above and below. 

 Snout short. Eye anterior. Mouth moderate, oblique. Maxillary 

 without supplementary bone, sheathed throughout its length. 

 Vomer and palatines toothless. Preopercle serrate. Branchiostegals 

 6. Vertebrae 24, of which 12 to 14 caudal. Air bladder present. 

 Pyloric coeca 3. Bases of soft dorsal and anal thickened, scaly. 

 Lateral line complete. Dorsal fin continuous, spines 12, depressible 

 in shallow groove, rays 15 or 16. Soft dorsal and anal rays elevated. 

 Anal spines graduated, 3 in number, not strong, rays 11 or 12. 

 Caudal rounded. Ventral with spine and 5 rays, also with scaly 

 axillary flap. 



One genus, related to the Serranidae but differing in the toothless 

 palate and shortened fore part of the head. Jordan ^ includes 

 Coins Buchanan-Hamilton, 1822 and Datnioides Bleeker 1852, though 

 they are not members of the Lobotidae. 



Genus LOBOTES Cuvier 



Lobotes Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, 1829, p. 177. Type Holocentrus 



surinamensis Bloch, monotypic. 

 Verrugato Jordan, Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Sci., vol. 3, No. 2, 1923, p. 195. 



Type Lobotes pacifims Jordan and Evebmann, orthotypic. 



Profile of head concave. Snout prominent. Lips thick. Upper 

 jaw very protractile, lower protruded. Jaws with narrow bands of 

 villiform teeth, outer row enlarged, conic, directed backward, Pre- 

 orbital narrower than eye. Preopercle serrated. Scales moderate, 

 ctenoid. Pectoral rounded. 



* Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Sci., vol. 3, No. 2, 1923, p. 195. 



