. The fishery resources of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species . Fishes; Fishery resources. 74 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 101. Amia luargaritophora (Bleeker). One specimen from Bacon (no. 4197; length in.). Head in length; depth ; eye 3 in head; dorsal vi-i, 9; anal ii, 8; scales 3-25-7; teeth on palatines and vomer. Apogon margaritophorus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, 363, Batjan. Amia margarilophorus Bleeker, Atlas, vii, 91, pi. cm. fig. 4; Giinther, Cat., i. 234. 102. Apogonichthys mentaUs E\ormann & Seale, new species. Head
. The fishery resources of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species . Fishes; Fishery resources. 74 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 101. Amia luargaritophora (Bleeker). One specimen from Bacon (no. 4197; length in.). Head in length; depth ; eye 3 in head; dorsal vi-i, 9; anal ii, 8; scales 3-25-7; teeth on palatines and vomer. Apogon margaritophorus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, 363, Batjan. Amia margarilophorus Bleeker, Atlas, vii, 91, pi. cm. fig. 4; Giinther, Cat., i. 234. 102. Apogonichthys mentaUs E\ormann & Seale, new species. Head in length; depth ; eye in hi'ad: snout 4: interorbital equal to snout; dorsal vi-i, 10; anal ii, 12 (the small anterior anal spine broken off in lype); scales probably about 2S, deciduous. Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle in head; mouth large, the lower jaw the longer; maxillary in head, its distal end under anterior margin of pupil; mandible in head; minute teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines; 20 gillrakers on lower limb, the longest equal to pupil; no denticulations on preopercle; opercle with a single point; entire body covered with thin, very deciduous cycloid scales; lateral line probably complete, apparently a single rcjw of scales on cheek; origin of spmous dorsal midway between tip of snout and axil of soft dorsal; longest dorsal spine in head; base of soft dorsal ^^, f"'. Fig. 10.—Apogonichthys mentalis Evermann & Seale, new species. Type. in head, its longest ray 2 in head; origin of anal under anterior third of soft dorsal, its longest ray in head, its base ; centrals below base of pectoral, their length in head; pectoral , the tip reaching beyond anal spines; caudal rounded. Color in spirits, yellowish white; 2 black longitudinal lines separated by pale yellow on side to below posterior end of soft dorsal; some dark dots on opercle, a shading of dusky at tip of snout and on ti
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