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point behind. Pectoral large, with broad base, and reaches little 

 beyond anal origin. Ventral inserted below gill-opening close before 

 pectoral base, fins united for their basal halves, and reach large vent 

 close before anal. Ventral spine small, about f length of fin. 



Color in alcohol dark chocolate-brown, with basal pockets of scales 

 dusky to blackish, and together with paler spots producing a mottled 

 appearance. Fins all blackish or dusky-brown, barred or spotted 

 with whitish. Cutaneous areas on head dark. Iris slaty. 



Length 50 mm. 



Type, No. 47,549, A. N. S. P. 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of 

 Philadelphia. 



Dromhus palackyi Jordan and Seale*^ has smaller scales, about 

 31 in a lateral series, body more slender or with the depth 6 and fins 

 not marked with wliite. 



{Macula, spot; pinna, fin.) 



« Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 797, fig. 15. 



