FISHES OF THE PHH,IPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 57 



Bleeker's figure of Perri'pheris mangula has been placed with this 

 species by Day. It shows the eye 2i/2 in head from snout tip and 

 the caudal simply little emarginate behind, also scales 54 above 

 lateral line to caudal base. It also shows 5 rows of cheek scales 

 of which only a single row on the infraorbital. Day's figure differs 

 markedly in that 6 rows of cheek scales are shown as counted to 

 the preopercle ridge, leaving a broad naked flange all around. 



Pempheris rhomboid&us Kossmann and Rauber is described and 

 figured : 



Depth 214 ; head 2^^^. Snout 61^4 in head; eye 2l^; maxillary 

 nearly reaches i/^ in eye, expansion 314 in eye, length 2 in head from 

 snout tip; interorbital 1%. D. VI, 9; A. Ill, 37. Silvery, with 

 very fine red brown dots, fins colorless, with dark dots. Dorsal 

 tip black. Length 140 mm. 



Pempheris affinis McCulloch is described with more scales in the 

 lateral line, or about 60 to caudal base and the lower gill rakers 

 on the first arch 23. Everywhere closely speckled with minute red- 

 dish brown dots, more crowded on back and head. Dorsal, caudal 

 and ventral tipped black. Anal with narrow black band. Lengtii 

 135 mm. 



22111, 22112. Alimaugo Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length 98 to 



129 mm. 

 16741. Baganga Bay, Mindanao. May 13, 1908. Length 124 mm. 

 9032 to 9034. Bongao anchorage, Tawi Tawi Group. February 24, 1908. Length 



113 to 116 mm. 

 Three examples. Bolniao Bay, Luzon. May 10, 1909. Length 65 to 113 mm. 

 22052 to 22054. Butauanan Island, Luzon. June 13, 1909. Length 48 to 67 mm. 

 22813. Jolo. March G-7, 19US. Length 128 mm. [419.1 Brilliant metallic 



bronze on side and below; back very dark olive green with less of metallic 



shades. Iris dusky. Dorsal membranes pale, except very dark blotch near 



tip of fin. rays colored as body. Anal pale pink, base almost black, narrowly. 



Caudal like body color, tip more dusky. Pectoral pinkish, somewhat dusky 



in axil. Ventral pinkish, membranes hyaline. 

 13797 to 13799. Pratas Reef. October 25, 1908. Length 92 to 99 mm. 

 20336. Tutu Bay, Jolo, first anchorage. September 19, 1909. Length 83 to 



138 mm. 38 examples. 

 13543. 13544, 19807 to 19809. Makyau Island, Dutch East Indies. November 



29, 1909. Length 122 to 130 mm. 

 32720 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Royal Museum Leiden. Length 125 mm. 

 41563 U.S.N.M. Samoa. C. H. White. Length 53 mm. In poor condition. 

 One example with 52354 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries (02359). 



Length 120 mm. 

 56088 U.S.N.M. Bulan, Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries (3817). Length 



51 mm. As Pempheris vanicolensis. 

 53071 A.N.S.P. Durban Bay, Natal. 1927. H. W. Bell Marley. Len^^li? 

 53088 to 53092 A.N.S.P. Natal. 1925. H. W. Bell Marley, Length 73 to 128 mm. 

 One A.N.S.P. Madagascar. M. Lamberton. Length 122 mm. 



