FISHES OF THE I'HILIPPINE ISLANDS. 67 



Family EOUULID.-i;. 



75. Leiognathus virgatus Fowler. 



Two specimens from Bulan (no. 3916; length 2.^, and '2 "r-) in.). 



Leiognathus rirgalus Fowler, Journ. Ae. Nat. Sci. Philti., 2.1 scr., .xil, 1904 (Juiii' 10), r,]r,. pi. xv, Ag. 4, Pedang, Sumatra. 



76. Leiognathus dussumieri (Cuvier & ^%lene,ieTlTles). ilaUway. 



Two specimens from San Fabian (no. 321(1 and 3212; length 6 and (i.2 in.). 



Head 3.2 in length; depth 1.9; eye 3.1 in head; snout 3.1; spine-shaped crest on nuchal region not 

 reaching halfway to base of first dorsal spine. 



Equula dussumieri C\i\k-r: & Valenciennes, Hist. Na(. Poiss., x, .56 (77), pi. 283, 183.5, Coromandel; auntlier,Cat., II, 600. 

 77. Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier). Mamrigvi. 



Two specimens from San Fabian (no. 3955 and 3959; length 2.5 and 3.75 in.), one from "Philippines" 

 (no local label, No. 3765; length 275 in.), and 3 from Bacon (no. 4030; length 2.5 to 275 in.). 



Breast scaled; supraorbital serrate; lateral line not so strongly arched as in L. edenhdus, the anterior 

 part slightly concave; tip of dorsal black. 



Equula splendens Cuvier, K6gne .Vnim., n, 212, 1829, Indies; Giinthrr, Cat., ll, .501. 



78. Leiognathus stercorarius Evermann & Scale, new species. 



Head 3.7 in length; depth 3; eye 3 in head; snout 3; interorbital 3; dorsal viii, 17; anal iii, 14; scales 57. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed, the upper and lower profiles almost evenly curved; jaws equal; 

 depth of caudal peduncle 4.9 in head; entire body covered with thin deciduous scales; cheek and breast 

 scaled; lateral line complete, with a long low curve from caudal peduncle di head; mouth very protractile; 

 the groove for the processes of the maxillary e.xtending to a line with posterior margin of eye, the length of 

 the bony spine-shaped crest extending bark from the groove 2.6 in head; upper jaw heavy; minute teeth 



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Fig. S.— Leiognathus stereorarius Evermann & Seale, new species. Type. 



in jaws, none on vomer, palatines or tongue; no canines; twelve gillrakers cm lower limb, the longest about 2 

 in pupil; maxillary ending on a line with anterior margin of eye, scarcely one-half exposed; mandible 2 in 

 head, at angle of 30°; wddth of preorbital 1.85 in snout; lower limb of preopercle denticulate on its inferior 

 border; opercle entire; eye with slight adipose eyelid. 



Origin of dorsal slightly posterior to origin of ventrals, longest dorsal spine 1 .75 in head, about one-half 

 depth of body (in another specimen— a cotypo— this spine measures 1 .4 in lirad and is greater than one-halt 

 depth of body), the first dorsal spine minute, the second longest, the dorsal continuous, none of the spines or 



