FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 315 



Lutjanus miorostomiis LACEPfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pi. 34, fig. 2; 



vol. 4, 1802, pp. 181, 216. Great Equinoxial Ocean [Indo-Pacific]. 

 Coius gudjutia Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, 1822, pp. 94, 370. 



Ganges mouths. 

 Pri.stipoma kaaTcan Cuviek, Hist. Nat. Poiss.. vol. 5. p. 244. Avian Cou- 



pang River, Pondieherry; Mahe . — RtippEiix, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, 



p. 123. pi. 20, flg. 1 (Massaua).— Richardson, lehth. China Japan, 1846. 



p. 227. 

 Pristipoma cliryso'balion (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



vol. 5, 1830, p. 248. No locality [Java]. 

 Polotus nitidus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 27, 1858, p. 283. Calcutta. 

 Pristipoma nageh (not RtJppEi.) Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 8, 



1876-1877, pi. (73)351, fig. 4. 

 Pomadasys nageh Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nerlaiul., vol. 8, 187(>-1877, p. 29 



(Sumatra, Singapore, Bintang, Banka. .Tava. Madura. Borneo, Celebes, 



Amboina). 



Depth 21/3 to 2% ; head 23/5 to 3, width 2 to 21/2. Snout 21/5 to 

 2% in head; eye 3% to 6i/4, II/2 to 21/0 in snout or greater than snout 

 in young, 1 to 1% in interorbital or greater than interorbital in 

 young; maxillary reaches eye or % to eye with age, expansion 1% 

 to 3 in eye, length 314 to 3% in head ; marginal slit along each side of 

 snout front; teeth conic, in bands in jaws, outer row^ slightly en- 

 larged, curved inward; palate and tongue toothless; interorbital 

 4 to 4^, elevated little convexly ; preopercle edge denticulate, serrae 

 at lower corner little sparse and largest, denticles about 38, edge 

 smooth with age. Gill rakers 5 + 13, small, short, l^ gill filaments, 

 which ^2. of ®y6. 



Scales 38 to 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 8 more on latter ; 

 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 11 or 12 below, 28 to 30 predorsal 

 extending forward above nostrils, 13 to 17 rows on cheek. Supra- 

 scapula strongly denticulated. Scales with 9 or 10 basal radiating 

 striae ; apical denticles 35 to 37, small points, with 10 to 17 transverse 

 series of basal elements ; circuli very fijie. 



D. XIII, 14, I, third spine II/2 to 14^ in head, first ray 2% to 31/3 ; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, second spine 1% to 1%, first ray 1% to 2; caudal 1% 

 to 1%, very slightly emarginate behind, truncate as expanded; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3^^ to 3% ; pectoral 1 to l^V ; ventral 

 11/4 to 11/3. 



Gray brown on back, paler to whitish below, everywhere with 

 silvery white reflections. Each scale on back with dark or dusky 

 basal spot, ever more or less variable or irregular. Iris brownish. 

 Dorsals dull brownish, spines burnished with silvery; membranes 

 of spinous fin broadly dusky terminally; spinous fin over greater 

 portion basally with 3 or 4 rows of blackish spots ; on soft fin spots 

 smaller and 2 basal rows more even. Caudal dusky terminally. 

 Other fins all pale. 



