FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 145 



Serranus nouleny Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1928, p. 247. Coro- 

 mandel. — Gunthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 126 (compiled). 



Lutianus nouleny Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 14, 

 1904, p. 524 (Padang). 



Mesoprion caroui Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 489 (on Karooi 

 Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, 1803, p. 19, pi. 125, Vizagapatam). — 

 Cantoe, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 998 (Pinang).— 

 DuNCKEB, Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 (1904), p. 148 (com- 

 piled). 



Mesoprion erythrognathus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 447. 

 Seychelles. — Playfaib, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 849 (Seychelles). 



Mesoprion xanthopterygius Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Percoid.), vol. 

 22, 1849, p. 46. Batavia. 



Mesoprion argenteus Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Astrolabe et Zelee, Zool., 

 vol. 3, 1853, p. 39, pi. 2, fig. 4. No locality. 



Mesoprion dodecanthoides (not Bleekek) GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 

 1, 1859, p. 206 (Madras). 



Mesoprion erythropterus (not Blooh) Guntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 205 (part). 



jAitjanus erythropterus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-1876, 

 pi. (20) 298, fig. 2; vol, 8, 1876-1877, p. 53 (Sumatra, Nias, Pinang, Banka, 

 Java, Celebes, Sumbawa, Amboina). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, 

 Poiss., 1891, p. 90 (part).— Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, No. 1, 1914, 

 p. 66 (Hong Kong). — Fowlek, Mem. Bishop Mus., voL 10, 1928, p. 197 

 (description from Bleeker only). 



RhomboplUoides megalops Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci, Philadelphia, 1918, 

 p. 88, fig. 4. Philippines. 



Depth 2% to 31/2 ; head 23/5 to 23^, width 1% to 23/5. Snout 31/2 

 to 4% in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 4%, greater to subequal with 

 snout, little greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches l^ to % in 

 eye, expansion 2% to 2% in eye, length 214 to 2^3 in head from 

 snout tip; bands of minute teeth in jaws, outer row little enlarged; 

 pair of canines in front of each jaw, variably double and several 

 lower lateral canines each side; villiform teeth on vomer and pala- 

 tines, on former rhomboid area with backward extension; inter- 

 orbital 4 to 41/^, broadly convex ; preopercle edge finely denticulate, 

 without gash above angle. Gill rakers 8 + 16 to 19, lanceolate, little 

 longer than gill filaments or 1% to 2i^ in eye ; usually 2 lower gill 

 rakers rudimentary. 



Scales 43 to 45 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 6 or 7 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below, 22 predorsal 

 forward opposite front pupil edge of which 10 to 12 to occiput, 5 or 

 6 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Tubes of lateral line often 

 with several branches. Scales with 10 or 11 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 30 to 72, with 6 or 7 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 12, I or 13, I, third spine 2^4 to 2I/2 in total head length, 

 first ray 3 to 3i/^ ; A. Ill, 8, i or 7, i, third spine 2l^ to 3, first ray 

 2^ to 2%; caudal 1^4 to II/3, slightly emarginate; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3 to 3%; pectoral ll^ to li^; ventral ll^ to 1%. 



