FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 183 

 APSILUS FUSCUS Valenciennes 



Apsilus fuscus Valenciennes, Hist. Nut. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 549, pi. 168bis. 

 Porto Praya, Cape Verde Islands. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 82 (compiled). — Guichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 24. — 

 Klunzingee, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 705 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, 1917, 

 p. 450 (Colombo, Ceylon). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, 

 Oct. 1927, p. 647 (Delagoa Bay). 



Depth 3i^; head 3%. Snout 3i/^ in head from snout tip; eye 

 3%, lyV in snout; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 214 in eye, 

 length 2% in head from snout tip; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, 

 without canines; teeth on vomer and palatines, none on tongue; 

 interorbital elevated. Scales 65 in lateral line ; 7 scales above lateral 

 line, 17 below, predorsal about 21 forward to occiput or nearly op- 

 posite hind eye edge, 7 rows on cheek inclusive of preopercle flange, 



D. X, 10, third spine 2 in total head length, first ray 3 ; A. Ill, 8, 

 third spine 314, first ray 3; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; 

 pectoral 1^ ; ventral 1% ; caudal 2^ in combined head and body 

 to caudal base, deeply forked with long, slender pointed lobes. 

 Brown, paler below. Dorsals with several ill-defined longitudinal 

 darker streaks. Length 750 mm. (Valenciennes.) 



Red Sea, Delagoa Bay, Keunion, Ceylon. Also in the Eastern 

 Atlantic. 



Genus TROPIDINIUS Poey 



Tropidinius (Gill) Poet, Report. Fisico Nat. Cuba, vol. 2, 1868, p. 296. Type 

 Mesoprion arnillo Poey— ApHlus dentatus Guichenot, monotypic. 



Rooseveltia (Jordan and Evermann) Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 

 vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 265. Type Serromus brighami fiEAZ.E= Serrantis 

 zonatus Valenciennes, monotypic. 



Body compressed, rather deep. Head large. Mouth moderate. 

 Maxillary long, reaches beyond front of pupil. Canines small. No 

 teeth on tongue. Preopercle edge minutely denticulate. Gill rakers 

 5 to 7+12 to 13. Caudal lobes subequal, not ending in filaments. 

 Pectoral longer than ventral, reaches anal. 



TROPIDINIUS ZONATUS (Valenciennes) 



Serranus zonatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, 1830, p. 509. 

 Mauritius. — GIjntheb, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 503 (compiled). 



Anthias zonatus GtJNTHEK, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 503 (compiled). 



Etelis zonatus Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 109. pi. 11, 

 fig. 3 (type; Madagascar). 



ApsilUrS zonatus Fowler, Copeia, No. 142, May 20, 1925, p. 20 (note on Hawaiian 

 example) ; Bull. Bishop Mus., No. 22, p. 26 (Honolulu) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 10, 1928, p. 192 (Honolulu, types of Serranus brighami and Rooseveltia 

 aloah) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 634 (Honolulu). 



Serranus telfairii Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 1, 1831, p. 127. 

 Mauritius. 



