496 SBALH. 



palatine, or tongue. Gill openings carried forward to below anterior 

 margin of eye. Gill rakers short, wide at base, sharp, pointed, and 

 denticulate on their inner surface, about 20 on lower limb, the longest 

 less than pupil. 



Entire body covered with large, smooth, thin deciduous scales; head 

 naked; vertical fins scaled. Origin of dorsal is just one-third distance 

 between end of caudal vertebra and lower axil of pectorals, its longest 

 ray 1.90 in head. Origin of anal is under third ray of dorsal, its longest 

 ray 3.50 in head. Origin of anal is slightly nearer the origin of ventrals 

 than to end of last caudal vertebra. Origin of the ventrals is midway 

 between end of last caudal vertebra and angle of preopercle. Caudal 

 forked, upper lobe scarcely equal to head, lower lobe considerably longer. 



Color in life greenish above, silvery and white below, a distinct silvery 

 band on side, bordered above by a narrow greenish band, fins white, the 

 dorsal, anal, and caudal distinctly tipped with jet black. 



Color in alcohol dull yellowish, green above, margins of scales darker. 

 Sides with silvery bands which have a bluish green upper margin, yellow- 

 ish white below. Cheeks silvery; tip of under jaw, snout and top of 

 head more or less dusky; eyes golden, with dusky blotch above; dorsal, 

 caudal, and anal yellowish, broadly tipped with jet black; pectorals and 

 ventrals yellowish, a black spot on upper base and axil of pectorals. 



Fourteen specimens, type is No. 5301 from Paawacan, Palawan Island, 

 P. I., 14 August, 1908. Length, 145 millimeters. 



Family ATHEBINID.^. Silversides. 



Atherina regina Seale, sp. nov. Plate III, fig. 1. (Gunoc.) 



Head 3.50; depth 4.95; dorsal VI-I, 10; anal I, 10; scales 36, counts 

 ing from the enlarged scale directly above axil of pectoral, 7 in vertical 

 series; eye 2.25 in head; snout 4; interorbit.al space 2.75, being less than 

 eye; maxillary 2.50; mandible 2; pectoral 1.25; ventrals 1.60; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 3.45. 



Body elongate, moderately compressed, greatest depth at origin of 

 ventral fins. Caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth equal to 

 twice its length. 



Head heavy and rather blunt, its greatest width equal to its greate.?t 

 depth, the lower portion of head strongly compres.sed. Interorbital space 

 'is slightly concave, caused by the prominence of the superocular ridges, 

 these bones form distinct ridges on upper lateral part of snout. Top of 

 snout flat except the small hump anteriorly caused by the processes of 

 the maxillary, the anterior margin of the snout is an even concave curve, 

 with a point on each side of processes; width of snont considerably 

 greater than its length. Eye large; mouth large, oblique, the lower 

 jaw slightly protruding. Maxillary narrow, ending on a line with 

 the front margin of iris. Mandible ending under anterior third of pupil. 



