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The color in alcohol very pale grayish brown, the scales punc- 

 tulated with minute dark specks, especially dorsally; on base 

 of pectoral the dots are larger and thicker, forming a cross- 

 bar; a blackish thin line is evident in some specimens, from 

 upper end of pectoral base along side to caudal; the spinous 

 dorsal pale basally, but the greater part of the fin black; the 

 soft dorsal crossbarred alternately with pale and dark, the pos- 

 terior free portion partly or entirely black ; the anal and caudal 

 more or less darkened by transverse rows of pale and dark 

 spots or specks. 



I place here twenty specimens, from 32 to 47 millimeters in 

 length, believed to have been collected in Cavite Province. No 

 data were with them when found by me in the collection, except 

 a typewritten slip giving the native name. 



From the Eleotris cyprinoides of Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 and "Asterropteryx" modestus of Bleeker this species seems to 

 differ in the presence of a dark lateral line, the black on the 

 dorsals, and in the proportions. 



Genus 6. BOSTRICHTHYS Dumeril 



Bostrichthys DUMERIL, Zool. Analyt. (1806) 120, 332. 

 Bostrychus LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 3 (1802) 144 (preoccupied 

 by Bostrickus Geoffrey, 1762, for a genus of insects). 



The body elongate, somewhat cylindrical forward, with com- 

 pressed sides posteriorly and broad, somewhat flattened head; 

 the eyes lateral, not prominent, of medium size; teeth very 

 small, in many rows on both jaws, without canines ; a patch of 

 similar teeth on vomer; the dorsal fins far apart; the base of 

 pectorals slightly muscular; gill openings rather large, with a 

 broad isthmus; the whole body, including head, covered with 

 small cycloid scales. 



This genus apparently has but a single species, of wide dis- 

 tribution among the Indo-Australian islands. 



12. BOSTRICHTHTS SINENSIS (Lacepede) 



PLATE 3, FIG. 3 



Bostrichthys sinensis GILL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1860) 125; 



DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 309, pi. 65, fig. 4. 

 Bostrychus sinensis (LACEPEDE), Hist. Nat. Poiss. 3 (1802) 141, pi. 



14, fig. 2; KNER, Reise Novara, Fische (1865) 186; BLEEKER, Versl. 



Akad. Amsterdam 11 (1877) 16; JORDAN and SEALB, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 29 (1905) 526; Bull. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1906) 382; 



SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. D 9 (1914) 74. 

 Philypnus ocellicauda RICHARDSON, Zool. Voy. Sulphur, Ichthy. (1844) 



59. 



