Abstract
T HE amazing richness and diversity of the Philippine fish fauna is forcibly illustrated by the collections made during my visit there from May to October, 1940. In various papers I have described 20 new species from my 1940 Philippine collection, and have published notes on the distribution and habits of a number of other fishes not hitherto known from the Islands. Including those mentioned in this contribution, 55 additions have been made to the known fish fauna of the Philippines from my 1940 collections in Busuanga, Mindoro, Negros, Mindanao, and Jolo. A few of those given in this paper have been mentioned by me previously, but without definite locality; these are members of the Thunnidae, and the dolphin. The Thunnidae are common food fishes, and are so abundant that they will one day be the basis for a great canning industry in the Philippines. Most of the other fishes here listed are either little known rarities, or are remote from where they have hitherto been known.
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