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FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINES. 2 
Family SCLAENIDA. 
. PSEUDOSCIZANA Bleeker. 
154. Pseudoscizena anea (Bloch). 
One example, 3.75 inches long, from Manila. Color in life silvery; first dorsal black; frontal region 
dusky; a dusky spot on opercle and another above it; pectoral, ventral, and anal pale yellowish. 
UMBRINA Cuvier. 
155. Umbrina dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
One specimen from Manila, 4 inches long. In life silvery, dusky above; first dorsal dusky, second 
lighter; a few specks of dusky in axil of pectoral; ventral and anal white; caudal pale yellowish, with 
dusky tip. 
Family SILLAGINIDA. 
SILLAGO Cuvier. 
156. Sillago sihama (Forskal). Asohos. 
Two examples, 5 inches long, from Manila, and two from Aparri, 3 and 4 inches. 
Family PSEUDOCHROMIDA. 
CICHLOPS Miller & Troschel. 
157. Cichlops spiloptera Bleeker. 
A specimen, 6 inches long, from Fuga Island, and one from Calayan, 4 inches. Color in life of the 
example from Calayan: Deep claret, a little lighter below lateral line; each scale with a small deep blue 
spot; head dark green, top very dark, lighter at jaws; several blue and red lines crossing face under eye; 
opercle heavily spotted with blue; pectoral and ventral pale claret; dorsal light claret, curiously marked 
with short dusky lines and spots, and with a subterminal margin of bright scarlet followed by a very 
narrow blue line; caudal the color of body, each membrane with along, thin scarlet line; anal strongly 
banded with deep scarlet and blue. 
In the blue spot on each scale our specimens resemble Cichlops cyclophthalma Miiller & Troschel, 
but the depth is less and the length of the head less than is stated for that species, and the specimens 
have not the dorsal marked posteriorly as figured and described by Bleeker from his example of C. 
cyclophthalmus. Our specimens agree in proportions, fins, scales, and in all details of coloration except 
presence of spots on scales of sides, with Bleeker’s figure and description of Cichlops spiloptera. The 
condition of one of our specimens indicates that the blue side spots fade easily, which probably accounts 
for their absence from Bleeker’s figure. 
158. Cichlops melanotznia Bleeker. 
One example, 3 inches long, from Cuyo. In life dull reddish, each side with ten narrow black 
longitudinal lines; rows of dark red spots about eye; dorsal and ventral bright red; dorsal spotted; 
pectoral yellowish. 
Family OPISTHOGNATHIDA. 
GNATHYPOPS Gill. 
159. Gnathypops dendritica Jordan & Richardson, new species. Tabangea. 
Head 2.66 in length without caudal; depth 3.40; eye 3.20 in head; interorbital space 3.70 in eye; 
nose 2 in eye; maxillary 1.33 in head, extending for half its length behind eye; teeth in bands in both 
jaws, those in the outer row somewhat enlarged and slightly recurved; dorsal x1, 13; anal 11, 13; pectorals 
2 in head; ventrals 1.75; dorsal inserted over base of pectorals; anal inserted under eleventh ray of 
dorsal; scales 105; lateral line high, running along back half an eye length from base of dorsal, and 
terminating over middle of anal; anterior pores of lateral line branched; top and sides of head and 
predorsal region with numerous, variously connected, branching mucous channels, those immediately 
in front of the dorsal fin disposed in a tree-like pattern, 
