. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 779 membranes united to isthmus, opposite to hind part of eye. Pharyn- geal teeth spoon shaped, 1, 3, 5-5, 3, 1. Scales large, radially striated or granulated, some with reticulated lines. Lateral line complete, somewhat curved towards belly, sensory tubes undivided. No sens- ory folds on head and no tubercles on snout. Dorsal with 8 branched rays and low basal scaly sheath, origin opposite ventral origin, last osseous ray feeble and finely serrated. Anal with 5 branched rays. Fresh waters o
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 779 membranes united to isthmus, opposite to hind part of eye. Pharyn- geal teeth spoon shaped, 1, 3, 5-5, 3, 1. Scales large, radially striated or granulated, some with reticulated lines. Lateral line complete, somewhat curved towards belly, sensory tubes undivided. No sens- ory folds on head and no tubercles on snout. Dorsal with 8 branched rays and low basal scaly sheath, origin opposite ventral origin, last osseous ray feeble and finely serrated. Anal with 5 branched rays. Fresh waters of the East Indies, Malacca, Tenasserim, Siam, Indo China and the Philippines. HAMPALA LOPEZI Herre Figure] 18 Hampala lopezi Hebre, Proc. Pan Pacific Sci. Congr., Australia, vol. 2, 1923, p. 1568, 1924 [type locality; Busuanga (no description)]; Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 24, p. 275 (types), p. 705, 1924 (reference).—Roxas and Maktin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 40, 1937 (reference).. Figure 18.—Hampala lopezi Herre: Sijecimen from Port Caltom. Depth 3% to 3%; head 3 to 31^, width 2 to 21/5. Snout 3Vio to 3% in head; eye 41/10 to 51/10, V/s to 1% in snout, ll^ in interorbital; maxillary reaches eye, length 3 to 3i/'io in head; barbel equals eye; interorbital 3% to 3%, broadly convex; suborbitals narrow, barely cover 14 of cheek. Gill rakers 2 + 9, lanceolate, l^ of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 1, 3, 5-5, 3, 1, with slight hooks and grinding surfaces. Scales 24 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 5 above, 3 below, 10 predorsal, 12 around caudal peduncle. Scales with 9 to 11 basal and 14 apical radiating striae, latter more or less imperfect; circuli concentric, fine, imperfect apically. D. IV, 8, I, fourth spine slender and little flexible, with feeble ser- rae along hind edges terminally, first branched ray ll^ to li^ in head; A. iii, 5, i, first branched ray 1% to V/g; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1
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