APOCRYPTICHTHYS 263 



I place here a poor specimen, 52 millimeters long, collected 

 at Fu-chow, Fukien Province, China, by Light. Dorsal VI, 

 1-25 ; the scales numerous, their number uncertain as many have 

 been lost anteriorly, but between 70 and 80 in a longitudinal 

 series ; the scales on posterior half large, those before first dor- 

 sal very small, those on opercles minute, in many rows; the 

 cheeks, snout, and interorbital naked; the body elongate, sub- 

 cylindrical anteriorly, the posterior half laterally compressed, 

 the dorsal and ventral profiles nearly horizontal, the depth 8 

 times in length ; the robust head 4.33 times in length, its breadth 

 much more than that of body, greater than its own depth, 1.9 in 

 its own length; the truncated snout convex in profile, 4.6 times 

 in head and slightly more than eye, which is 4.8 times in head ; 

 the eyes dorsal, placed obliquely, very close together, the interor- 

 bital 2.66 times in an eye diameter; the mouth large, oblique, 

 the posterior angle of maxillary reaching below posterior margin 

 of eye; in upper jaw is a row of four enlarged, stout teeth and 

 beginning behind the two lateral ones is a long row of very small, 

 sharp pointed teeth; in lower jaw is a row of small semihori- 

 zontal teeth, the last two on each side a little larger, with a 

 pair of stout, divergent canines behind symphysis ; the first dor- 

 sal rather high, the fifth spine half as long as head, the tips of 

 the spines extending upon second dorsal when depressed; the 

 second dorsal and anal low, the posterior rays highest and ex- 

 tending upon caudal when depressed; the narrow elongate 

 pointed caudal 3 times in length and 1.4 times head; the pec- 

 toral broadly pointed, 1.5 times in head and 6.5 times in length ; 

 the ventrals broad, with pointed tip, 0.125 shorter than pecto- 

 rals, 7.42 times in length, 1.71 times in head. 



The color in alcohol uniform yellowish brown. 



This species occurs along the coast of southern China, west- 

 ward to Bengal. I believe it occurs on the Ilocano coast of the 

 Philippines, though I have no authentic specimens from there. 



Genus 51. APOCRYPTICHTHYS Day 



Apocryptichthys DAY, Fishes of India (1878) 302. 

 The body elongate, the flat head anteriorly depressed, the 

 mouth low down, very large, extending beyond eye; in upper 

 jaw is a single row of small, blunt, subcylindrical teeth, with 

 two or four long downward-curved pointed canines at front; 

 in lower jaw is a single row of rather long, blunt, horizontal 

 teeth of uniform size, with no canines behind symphysis ; no bar- 



