164 
bulletin of the bureau of fisheries. 
circuli are strictly parallel with the margin, and the apical field has coarse, widely spaced longitudinal 
circuli. The apical margin carries a broad band of dusky skin, and is not distinctly dentate. This 
is certainly a peculiar scale, but my specimens are more or less latinucleate. 
Suborder Kurtoidea. 
KURTIDAJ. 
The scales, according to Boulenger, are minute and rudimentary. 
Suborder LabyrinThici. 
ANABANTIDAE Climbing perches. 
I have scales of Anabas scandens, from Lake Buhi, Philippine Islands, and A. munii from Sharb-el- 
Aish, Egypt; the latter from the British Museum. The characters of the Climbing perch, A. scandens, 
Fig. 34. — Anabas. The 
lines running down¬ 
ward are circuli. 
Fig. 35. —Anabas munii (Anabantidae). Egypt. British Museum. 
are given in the table of acanthopterygian scales above; A . munii scarcely differs. It is characteristic of 
Anabas that the basal circuli are dense, the lateral ones rather widely spaced, and those at the sides of 
the apical field strong and very far apart. The ctenoid patch is decidedly different from that of the 
percoids, and apparently less specialized. In A. munii the apical spines are broadened at base, and 
are singularly like those of Aphoristia pigra. Boulenger says the Anabantidae are closely related to the 
Ophiocephalidae, in which the scales are cycloid. Goodrich places them in a “subtribe” with the 
Osphromenidae. The Anabantidae apparently can not be derived from the percoids; they represent an 
early branch from the acanthopterygian stem. 
Suborder Holconoti. Surf-fishes. 
EMBIOTOCIDAE Surf-fishes. (PI. xxxvm, fig. 37, 38.) 
The material studied was all collected by the Albatross, as follows: Zalembius rosaceus (Jordan & 
Gilbert), above Santa Barbara Channel; Amphisticus argenteus Agassiz, St. Nicholas Island; Phanerodon 
furcatus (Girard), San Diego, Cal.; Damalichthys argyrosomus (Girard), Seattle, Wash. The scales are 
