774 PROCKEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvm. 



Family ATHP:R1N1D.E. 



ATHERINA Linnaeus. 

 21. ATHERINA TEMMINCKl ( Bleeker). 



One exiuiiplc, ii^i'iMMu*;- fully with lilcckcr's description. 



Head, 4.r.(i in leno-th; depth, (;.5r), oreatest l)readth, 8; eye, 3 in 

 head, snout 4. 



D. VI-1, S; A. I, 12. Scales. 4'2. two series above lat(M-al strii)e. 

 Sides with a hroad silvery hand; u|)per parts dotted; pectorals pale. 



Family SPHYK.T^:N1I).E. 



SYPH^^YNA Linnaeus. 

 22. SPHYRiENA JELLO Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Two younu- sj)eciniens. 



Family CARANGID.E. 



ELERIA Jordan and Seale, new genus. 



A new ^enus, allied to Sromlxfo/drn^ hut with a strong- diverging 

 horizontal canine on esich side of tip of lower jaw; outer teeth in both 

 jaws strong. 



The genus is named for the lat(> R. P. Fra Casto de Elera, "Pro- 

 fesor de Ampliticacion de Historia Natural,'' in the University of Santo 

 Tomas de Maiula, first local author to write on the fish fauna of the 

 Philippines. Fra FltM-a's elaborate :ind painstaking work is entitled 

 "Catologo Metodico de Toda la Faun:i de Filipinas conocida hasta el 

 presente, y a la vez de la coleccion d(d Aluseo de P. P. dominicos del 

 Colegio Universidad de Santo Tomas de Alainla." 



23. ELERIA F'HILIPPINA Jordan and Seale, new species. 



Head, 4.15; depth, 3.10; eye, 4.1(> in iiciid: D. \\l-\. 20; A. II-I, 

 18; lateral line slightly curved anterioily; scales, about 200; snout, 

 3.50 in head; interorbital 3.50. 



Body oldong, compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 4. 5o in head; 

 lower jaw large and prominent, but scarcely longer than u[)per when 

 month is (dosed; maxillai-y naiTow, its length 1.75 in head, its distal 

 end under })osterior third of eye; teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, 

 and tongu(^; lower jaw with 2 sti'ong pi-ocurrent diverging canines; 

 upper jaw with 4 smaller dixcrging canines; outer teeth in both 

 jaws enlarged; head naked; opercles entire, a slight median crest on 

 top of head; a distinct s})ine directed foi-ward at origin of dorsal; dis- 

 tance from tip of this spine to tip of snout, 3.12 in length of fish with- 



