FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 317 



9960, 11472. Kowloon market, China. September 18, 1908. Length 112 to 



122 mm. 

 6844. Kowloon market. October 20, 1908. Length 237 mm. 

 5855 U.S.N.M. North Pacific Exploring Expedition. W. Simpson. Length 



137 mm. 

 12674 U.S.N.M. Madras, India. British Museum. Length 130 mm. 

 30597 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Linnaean Society of New South Wales. Length 



223 mm. 

 30636 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 198 mm. 

 49313 U.S.N.M. Red Sea. Belotti. Length 125 mm. As Pristipoma nageb. 

 51503 U.S.N.M. Korea? Dale and Jouy. Length 115 mm. 

 56042 U.S.N.M. Mindanao. Bureau of Fisheries (4219). Length 268 mm. 

 57932 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 71 mm. 

 57969 U.S.N.M. Zamboanga. Dr. E. A. Mearns. Length 47 to 52 mm. 2 



examples. 



71911 U.S.N.M. Japan. AlbafroHS Collection. Length 257 mm. 



71912 U.S.N.M. Japan. Albatrosfi Collection. Length 225 mm. 



72674 U.S.N.M. Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length 242 mm. As Pomada-'iys 

 nageb. 



76628 U.S.N.M. Takao, Formosa. Dr. F. Baker. Length 262 mm. 



27615 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. L. Hiller. Length 

 204 mm. Wlien fresh in arrack rich, dark olivaceous above, pale or whitish 

 below and whole body more or less washed with silvery white. Each scale 

 on side, especially above, with rather large deep olivaceous spot, so more or 

 less irregular longitudinal bands form. Dorsal olivaceous gray, sides of 

 spines burnished silvery and both spinous and soft fins with 3 rows of deep 

 blackish brown spots or blotches placed longitudinally on fins; lower series 

 mostly concealed by scaly sheath below. Upper dorsal edge gray black. 

 Anal and caudal uniform olivaceous gray. Caudal dusky gray. Pectoral 

 grayish, tinged yellowish olive. Ventral mostly greenish yellow. As Poma- 

 dasys commersonii. 



POMADASYS OPERCULARIS (Playfair) 



Pristipoma operculare Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 24, pi. 4, fin. 1. 



Aden ; Port Natal.— Day. Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 76, pi. 20, fig. 2.— 



BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 656 (Muscat). — Day. Fauna 



Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 512. — Gilchrist, Marine Invest. South 



Africa, vol. 1, 1902, p. 110 (compiled). — Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 



Paris, vol. 13, 1907, p. 203 (Madagascar). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. 



South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, 1908-1911, p. 152 (Durban).— Pellegrin, Bull. 



Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 225 (Fort Dauphin, Madaga.scar). 

 Pristipoma {Pomadasys) operculare Zugmayee, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 



Math.-physik. Klas.se. vol. 26. 1913. p. 10 (Mekran; Oman). 

 Pomadasys opercuJaris Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 1908, p. 244 (Durban 



Bay). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, 1917. 



p. 354 (references). 

 Pomadasis opercularis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sri. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 



231 (Delagoa Bay) ; 1927, p. 279 (Santa Maria; Philippines). 

 Pomadasys operculare Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2. Oct. 



1927, p. 675 (East London, Natal, Zululand, Delagoa Bay). 



Depth 3; head 2%, width 21/0. Snout 2% in head; eye 4. 1% 

 in snout, 1 in interorbital ; maxillary reaches nostril, expansion y^ 



