358 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



18372 to 18374. Santa Cruz River. December 17, 1907. Length 64 to 147 mm. 

 8 examples. 



AlOlO. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Toniini, Celebes. November 20, 1909. 

 Length 128 mm. 



28561. U.S.N.M. Lucon. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris. Length 80 to 90 mm. 3 ex- 

 amples. As Therapon argenteus. 



47578 to 47592 A.N.S.P. Philippines. Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 

 Length 116 to 140 mm. 



Genus PELATES Cuvier 



Pelates (Cuvier and Valenciennes) Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. 2, ed. 2, 1829, 

 p. 148. Type Pelates quitiqueVineatus (Cuvieb and Valenciennes) 

 Cuvi.ER, monotypic. 



Teeth compressed, triserial above, biserial below, entire or simple. 

 Gill membranes joined with isthmus. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Pelates. Gill rakers 16 to 18+21 or 22. 

 b\ Large black blotch on dorsal between third and eighth spines ; dark shoul- 

 der blotch usually present quadrilineatus. 



V. Dorsal fin without black blotch; no dark shoulder mark sexlineatus. 



a^ Rhynohopelates, new subgenus. Gill rakers 8+13 ; 4 dark longitudinal 

 bands on back, with age each having alternating incomplete or broken 

 band, parallel, but less conspicuous oxyrhynchus. 



Subgenus Pelates Cuvier 

 Gill rakers 16 to 18 + 21 or 22. 



PELATES QUADRILINEATUS (Bloch) 



Holocentrus quadrilineatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, p. 82, 

 pi. 238, fig. 2. The Orient.— Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 642 (on 

 Bloch). — Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 16. — Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 4, 1802, pp. 339, 380 (East Indies). 



Therapon quadrilineatus Cuvieb, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, p. 134 (no local- 

 ity). — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 239 (Chinese Sea). — 

 GuNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 282 (copied). — Kneb, Reise 

 Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 46 (Java, Singapore, Madras, Manila). — Peters, 

 Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 256.— Dat, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 

 1875, p. 70, pi. 18, fig. 5.— Maetens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 386 

 (Manila). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 507. — Thurston, 

 Notes Pearl Fisher. Manaar, 1890, p. 91 (Pamban). — Weber, Zool. Ergebn. 

 Reise Nederland. Ost. lud., vol. 3, 1894, p. 408 (Tanette River mouth and 

 Pare-Pare, Celebes). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 473 (Luzon, 

 Manila Bay, Cebu). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 

 1903 (1904), p. 149 (Singapore).— Stead, Fishes of Australia, 1907, p. 122 

 (New South Wales, Queensland). — Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 (1908), p. 258 (Cuyo, Lubano, Iloilo, Aparri).— 

 Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, Oct., 1910, p. 277 (Sandakan, 

 Borneo). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 539 

 (Riu Kiu).— Fowler and Bean, Proc. U, S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 32 

 (Takao).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scl. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 233 (Dela- 

 goa Bay) ; 1927, p. 281 (Bulan).— Pillay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vol. 33, No. 2, Feb. 15, 1929, p. 366 (Travancore), 



