516 A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM SUMATRA. 



between front rim of eye and base of caudal. Origin of spinous anal nearly mid- 

 way between tips of jaws and base of last anal ray, second spine enlarged. Lower 

 front edges of third and fourth dorsal, and third anal spines, finely serrate. Soft 

 anal similar to soft dorsal. Caudal forked, lobesrather broad, and pointed. Ven- 

 tral small, reaching a little over half way to origin of spinous anal. Pectoral 

 small, short, and reaching about opposite base of second anal spine. Anus nearer 

 base of ventral than origin of spinous dorsal. 



Color in arrack pale brownish-gray on upper half of body, marked or varie- 

 gated with short darker blotches or vermiculations. Lower half of body white. 

 Body everywhere more or less bright silvery. Snout dusky. Fins more or less 

 dilute brownish-yellow. Spinous parts of vertical fins more or less burnished with 

 silvery, and spinous dorsal with a blackish cross-line a little below center of its 

 height. Base of pectoral marked with pale brown dots on inside. Inside of gill- 

 opening similar. Iris pale orange. Peritoneum silvery. 



Length i^ inches. 



Type No. 27,526, A. N. S. P. Padang. 



Five examples. This species is related to Leiognathus bindoides (Bleeker),^ 

 differing in the black bar on dorsal, preocular spines more obsolete, and absence of 

 golden spots on spinous dorsal. 



{Virgatus, striped with reference to black band on spinous dorsal.) 



EUBLEEKERIA subgen. nov. 

 Type Equula splendens Cuvier. 



Differs from Equuliies in complete lateral line. 



(Named for Dr. Pieter van Bleeker, the most voluminous of writers in Ichthy- 

 ology, and whose work on the fishes of Sumatra is the most complete ever given.) 



87. Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier). 



88. Leiognathus spilotus sp. nov. Plate XIV, lower figure to right. 



Head 3^ ; depth ^ ; D. VIII, 16 ; A. Ill, 14 ; P. i, 13 ; V. I, 5 ; width of head 

 2|- in its length ; depth of head 1 ; snout 3^ ; eye 2|- ; interorbital space o\ ; tip of 

 snout to end of maxillary 2|-; second dorsal spine 1|-; caudal \\\ pectoral l-i-; 

 ventral 2 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 5. 



Body elongate, greatly compressed, greatest depth at origin of dorsal, and 

 upper profile more or less convex from this point. Caudal peduncle compressed. 



Head deep, compressed, and upper profile slightly and eveulj^ convex. Snout 

 short, blunt, and upper jaw not projecting. Eye rather large, anterior. Mouth 

 small and protractile downward. Teeth fine, weak, brush-like, and uniserial in 

 jaws. Preocular spines two. Parietal ridges well separated. Occipital ridge 

 developed. Profile of chin strongly concave. Supraorbital ridge serrate. Lower 

 margin of preopercle serrate. 



Gill-opening extending forward opposite posterior margin of pupil. Rakers 

 small, pointed, much smaller than filaments. Pseudobranchiaj well developed. 



^ Equula hindoides Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. lud., I, 1850, p. 372. Batavia, in marl. 



