FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 47 



line, mostly strongly ctenoid. Usually small scales on cheek. Dorsal 

 with 4 or 5 spines and 7 to 12 rays. Caudal usually forked. 



Small fishes of the Indo-Pacific ; closely related to Pemphei^ 

 though with more normal fishlike contour. I have not examined any 

 of the species and the following arrangement is purely provisional. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a*. Paeapbiacanthus. Soft anal rays 18 ransonneti. 



«'. Soft anal rays 20 to 27. 



h^. Pempheeichthys. Caudal tips pale or like rest of fin. 



&. Soft anal rays 20 beryciformes. 



G'. Soft anal rays 22. 



d\ Eye deeper than long [abnormal?] giintheri. 



d'. Eye equally long as deep unwinl. 



c^ Soft anal rays 24 to 27 elongatus. 



6^ Pabapemphebis. Caudal tips black argenteus. 



PARAPRIACANTHUS RANSONNETI Steindachner 



Parapriacanthus ransonneti STBaNOACHNEB, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 61, 

 1870, p. 623, pi. 1, figs. 1-2. " Nangasaki " [Nagasaki]. 



Depth 3^^; head 2%. Snout 4% in head from snout tip; eye 2y^, 

 greater than snout ; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion y2 of eye, 

 length 2 in head from snout tip; teeth very small, pointed, biserial, 

 inner row somewhat longer than outer; interorbital low. Scales 70 

 (figure shows 78 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter), 

 5 above (figure shows 6) , 16 below (figure shows 14 from anal origin) , 

 45 predorsal forward midway in snout, 5 rows on cheek, 



D. V. 9, 1, first ray 1% in total head length ; A. Ill, 18, i, first ray 

 21/5; caudal 1%, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 314; pectoral ly^; ventral 2yg. 



Back reddish, side silvery white. (Steindachner.) 



Japan. 



PARAPRIACANTHUS BERYCIFORMES Franz 



Parapriacanthus beryciformes Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Suppl. vol. 4, 

 pt. 1, 1911, p. 33, pi. 6, fig. 46. Yokohama. 



Depth 3%; head 31/8. Snout 4% in head from snout tip; eye 2%, 

 greater than snout ; maxillary reaches i^ in eye, expansion 214 in eye, 

 length 2 in head. Scales 80. 



D. V, 7, first ray I1/5 in head; A, III. 20. 



Yellowish on back, scales dotted with dusky. Sides of head, breast 

 and belly silvery. (Franz.) 



Differs from Parapriaccmthus ransonneti Steindachner in the 

 form of the dorsal. 



