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Teeth granular, in about 3 irregular rows in each jaw. Patch of 

 granular teeth on vomer and each palatine. Inner buccal folds 

 narrow. Tongue fleshy, thick, not free. Mandible shallow, rami 

 not elevated inside mouth. Barbels short, and scarcely extend 

 beyond hind eye edge. Nostrils greatly distant, front one simple 

 pore about last | in snout, hind one short sUt close before eye. Inter- 

 orbital very sHghtly convex. Preorbital broad, width slightly greater 

 than eye. Preopercle edge entire. Opercle with 2 small concealed 

 spines, close and above. 



Gill-opening forward about opposite hind nostril. Rakers 6+ 

 10, VI, lanceolate, slender, 1^ in filaments, and latter 1+ in eye. 



Fig. 15.— Upeneoides philippinus sp. nov. 



Pseudobranchiae about half length of gill-filaments. Isthmus 

 narrowly constricted. 



Scales uniformly large, finely ctenoid, in lengthwise rows parallel 

 with lateral line. Small scales over most of caudal basally and 

 front of soft dorsal and anal. Head scaly, and 2 rows of scales on 

 cheek to preopercle ridge. Several large scales on exposed maxillary 

 expansion. Pectoral axil with firm adipose scale above. Ventral 

 with free pointed scaly flap If in fin. Broad scaly flap between 

 ventral bases | fin length. Lateral line concurrent with dorsal 

 profile, well out on caudal base, tubes well exposed and each with 

 several small branches. 



Spinous dorsal inserted little nearer front nostril than second 

 dorsal origin, second spine longest with third and fourth subequal, 

 depressed fin | to soft dorsal. Last inserted midway between 



