2S(j SEALE. 



Glossogobius aglestes Jordan ami Scale. 



These specimens have the large montli and the color markings of the 

 Philippine cotypes of this »])eeies, altliough an examinatinD of a good 

 series may sliow specific differences. ( )ur specimens are in poor condition. 

 Nos. 2701, 2'(07, and 'i712 ; length, 8.1 millimeters. 



Family SC'(JEP,ENII).^. Sen ipian- fishes. 



Gennadius stoliczas (Day). 



Color pale yellowish, mottled with brownish; fins barred with brown; 

 no cranial spines. No. 2606; length, 110 millimeters. 

 Xot common; recorded from the Philippines. 



Prosopodasys trachinordes (Cut. and Val.). 



Dorsal III, Vi, 4, anal III, 3. 



Color yellowish, mottled with brownish specks; fins barred with dark 

 brown. Nos. 2172, 2.533, 2(303, 2;0?, -r^nO, 27()2, 2763, 2775, and 2791; 

 length, 48 to G2 millimeters. 



Xot recorded from the Philippines, and differing chiefly from Philip- 

 pine species of this genus in the number of spines. 



Polycaulus elongatus (Cav. and Val.). 



These s])ecimens agiee with Day's description and figure," which he 

 states are identical with Bloch and Sehneiders type examined by him. 

 Nos. 2.534, 2741, and 2770; length, 60 to S.5 millimeters. 



Not reported from the Philippines. 



Family TLATYCEPHALIDJ^]. Flatheads. 



Thysanophrys tentaculatus (Eiippell). 



Oolor clove-brown, without distinct bands over back, all the fins more 

 or less mottled with brownish; anal and ventrals tipped with brownish; 

 howevei-, the ventrals ai-e fully colored above. Tentacles of eve very 

 distinct, the spines at angle of opercles very short, about eipial to width 

 of nostril. Hrad with few low spines. No. 24!)(); length, 315 milli- 

 meters. 



This species is common at Sandakan; it has also been recorded from 

 ( 'uyo, Philippine Islands. It is esteemed as a food-fish. 



Platycephalus indicus (Linnseus). 



Pale sepia above, yellowish-white lielow ; rays of the dorsals barred with 

 brown; a dark median line on middle of caudal fin with converging dark 

 lines from the upper and lower portions of the fin, meeting the median 

 line at its extremity; four or five brown dots on the upper ray of caudal. 



"Fishes of India ()H7W), 164. pi. 39, fl,y. 6. 



