ArT,2. FORMOSA AND PHILIPPINES FISHES—FOWLER AND BEAN. 4] 
along anal base, smaller on breast than on predorsal. Basal radiat- 
ing striae 14 or 15, apical denticles 80 to 88, circuli fine. Dorsals 
and anals low. Second and third anal spines about equal. 
Color in alcoho] dull olive brown above, paler to whitish beneath. 
Each scale with paler center or spot, obsolete, yet suggesting length- 
wise streaks. Opposite outer half of depressed pectoral and slightly 
beyond borders or bases of scales darker or more deeply brownish so 
as to form an ill-defined large dark blotch below lateral line, though 
much greater than eye in extent. Cheek tinged with natal-brown. 
Iris very pale yellowish. Under surface of head whitish. Dorsals 
grayish, with pale dusky-gray shading marginally on spinous fin, and 
soft fin with three dark gray longitudinal bands. Caudal with four 
transverse bands. Outer portions of ventrals dusky-gray. Brownish 
spot in pectoral axil. 
We believe these two young examples to represent an adolescent 
stage, but have not yet found the obscure dark bands on the soft dor- 
sal and caudal noticed previously. In some respects they are sug- 
gestive of L. carinatus Weber,”’ a much deeper species. ZL. bonhamen- 
sis Gunther ** appears to be synonymous. L. atkinsoni Seale®® may 
antedate L. carinatus Weber. It is not described with markings on 
the soft dorsal and caudal, though its ventrals are said to be dusky on 
their posterior third. 
Family GERRIDAE. 
GERRES KAPAS Bleeker. 
Head, 3 to 34; depth, 23 to 22; D. IX, 10,1; A. ITI, 7, 1; scales 
about 38? in lateral line to caudal base (squamation damaged) ; 4 
scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 8? below to spinous 
anal origin; 14 predorsal scales to frontal fontanelle; snout, 3 to 34 
in head; eye, 3 to 34; maxillary, 24 to 22; interorbital, 24 to 2%. 
Gill-rakers, 111, 1+8, lanceolate, about 2 in filaments or 4 in eye. 
Scales with 6 to 10 basal radiating striae, fine circuli very largely 
parallel and vertical. Premaxillary groove broadly naked. Color 
in alcohol largely pale brown on back. Sides and below bright 
silvery-white. Fins pale brown. Brown spot on membranes of last 
half of spinous dorsal and on all of soft dorsal. Length, 133 to 138 
mm. Three from Zamboanga. 
Three young examples in the Academy from the Philippines 
agree, except in such differences as are due to age, like larger 
eye, etc. 
27 Siboga Exped., Fish., vol. 65, 1913, p. 289, pl. 2, fig. 1. Seget, Western New Guinea; 
Tual, Medrig Kei. 
28 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2 (1) 1873—1875, p. 65, pl. 47. Bonham Island. 
* Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4 (6) 1909, p. 515, pl. 11. Balabae Island 
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