268 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
In life dusky brown in general color; a whitish spot on each scale; dorsal, anal, and caudal similar 
to body, but barred instead of spotted; pectorals light yellow, dusky at base; ventrals dark reddish 
brown with white tips; a broad white bar at base of caudal; head dirty green; lips yellowish. 
Family SCARICHTHYID. 
SCARICHTHYS Bleeker. 
199. Scarichthys auritus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). Busalog; Layag layag. 
One example from Cagayancillo, 3.50 inches long. Life colors: Body dirty green, with irregular 
spots of brown and light blue; head dirty green, with numerous spots of purplish blue; fins light reddish 
brown with dark mottling of the same color. 
CALOTOMUS Gilbert. 
200. Calotomus moluccensis (Bleeker). 
One specimen from Cuyo, 5 inches long. 
General color in life, dark green, sparsely spotted with brick red. This species may be recognized 
by the presence of a distinct black blotch between the second and third dorsal spines. We may here 
note that the description and figure of Calotomus carolinus, from Rarotonga, were by some accident 
included in the recent paper on'‘the Fishes of Samoa, by Jordan & Seale, under the name of Scarichthys 
ceruleopunctatus (Riippell). 
CALLYODON Gronow. 
201. Callyodon capistratoides (Bleeker). 
General color in life, dull brown with a purplish wash; a blue band over mouth to below posterior 
margin of eye; another below mouth, below that a pink line, then a blue line, then pink again, and below 
that two greenish spots; belly with a median blue line from isthmus to vent, continued on edge of anal 
fin; gill covers dull purple; a blue wash on pectoral; ventral blue, three rays pink; base and edge of 
anal blue, middle pink; dorsal similar to anal; caudal with upper and lower edges broadly blue, tip 
pink, a subterminal blue band, base purple. 
A single example, the type, from Cagayancillo, 6 inches in length. 
Family TOXOTIDA. 
TOXOTES Cuvier. 
202. Toxotes jaculatrix (Pallas). 
Three specimens, 3.50 to 5 inches long, from Mindoro Island. 
Family EPHIPPIDA. 
EPHIPPUS Cuvier. 
2038. Ephippus argus (Gmelin). Citang. 
One example, 6 inches long, from Manila, and one from Iloilo, 2 inches. 
Family DREPANIDA. 
DREPANE Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
204. Drepane punctata (Gmelin). 
Two specimens from Manila and one from Lubang, 3 to 4 inches. Color in life silvery; five vertical 
rows of long dusky spots from dorsal to near ventral margin; one spot on caudal peduncle; fins pale 
dusky greenish, all of them except pectoral broadly margined with dusky. 
Family PLATACID. 
PLATAX Cuvier. 
205. Platax orbicularis (Forskal). 
Three specimens from Ticao Island and one from Cagayancillo, 1.50 inches long. 
