FISHES FROM NEGROS— JORDAN AND SEALE. 



779 



impossible to tell with certainty the shape of the caudal or its lenoth. 

 The caudal is, however, doubtless, rounded in life. 



Color in spirits bluish-black; on anterior half of head the ground 

 color seems to be yellowish covered with black dots or narrow reticu- 

 latino- lines, the black markings predominating and gradually hiding 



Fig. 4. — Mionorus jtYDRus. 



the yellow coloring on posterior half of head; fins are black, the three 

 posterior rays of soft dorsal and anal are yellowish, base of |)ectoral 

 yellow, the pectoral itself gra,y; iris golden. 



One specimen Cat. No. 51046, LT.S.N.M., from Negros. Length, 0.78 

 inch. 



FOA Jordan and Evermann, ne^A^ genus. 



Preopercle entire; lateral line incomplete; teeth on palatines. 



This genus contains small species allied to Ami<(.. l)ut with the preo- 

 percle entire and the lateral line incomplete. From Apoijonichthys 

 { — Foirhrhi\ type niiritd), Foa differs in the presence of teeth on the 

 palatines, these being absent in Apogonichthyf<. Arionorux differs in 

 having the lateral line complete. In Anna {^Ap()(i<»A the posterior 

 liml) of the preopercle is serrate; in Prlstiapogon^ both limbs. Fo is 

 the Samoan name for fishes of this famil3\ 



36. FOA FO Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head, 2.1^5; depth, 1^.75; eye, 2.80 in head; D. VII-l-(»; A. II, 8; 

 scales !2-2o-(), lateral line not complete; snout 4.85 in head; interor- 

 bital equal to snout. 



Body compressed, of moderate depth, the dorsiil outline nuich more 

 convex than ventral, the greatest depth being at origin of dorsal tin; 

 depth of caudal peduncle equal to orbit; head rather pointed, the 

 lower jaw slightly the longer; mouth large; distal end of maxillary 

 below posterior margin of or))it; minute teeth in jaws, vomer and 



