FISHES OK THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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Color in spirits, dark brown; large scattered blue spots with black margins on head, thorax, belly, and 

 fins except spinous dorsal, which is dusky; no bars <>r spots on other portions of body, the spots on lins indis, 

 tinct, except on pectoral, where they form rows; pectoral with a slight wash of yellowish with a black margin- 

 otherwise the lins all blackish without a trace of lighter margins. 



This species is related to C. guttatug, from which it differs in the larger scales, longer ventral-, smaller 

 eye, and in coloration. 



One One specimen from Bacon, no. 5591 1, U.S. National Museum i li. !•'. no. 3722), length 7.5,in. ; collector 

 Charles J. Pierson. 



We lake pleasure in naming this species for our associate, Dr. Wm. ('. Kendall, of the I . S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries. 



114. Cephalopholis boenack (Bloch). 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3856; length 5 in.). 



Eodianv I tel Bloch tchth.,iv, 31, pi ccxxvi,1797. 



phelua ba ""< '. . Bi ulenger, Cat., i. 180. 



115. Cephalopholis obtusauris Evermann kV; Seale, new s]mc ies. 



Head 2.55 in length: depth 2.S; eve 5.3 in head; snout 3.9; inlerorhital 1.75 in snout: dorsal i\. 15; 

 anal in, '■>: scales about 12 95-26, with Is pores in lateral line. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2.95 in head: body and land covered 

 with minute scales with rough margins; lateral line with a distinct curve above pectoral; head large; mouth 

 very large; maxillary 2 in head, its distal end under middle of eye, its width 1.3 in eve; mandible 1 85; small 



Fia. 12. -Cephalopholis obtusaurw Evermann .v Se.ii,>. new species rype 



teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines, outer scries on upper jaw slightly enlarged, with '_' canines on each side 

 anteriorly, and with some enlarged depressible teeth posterior to them; a canine on each side of symphysis of 

 lower jaw, with a row of larger depressible teeth among the small ones on sides; 11 gillrakers on lower limb 

 (counting knobs), the longest equal to pupil; preopercle slightly rough; opercle with 3 spines, the lower one 

 a little anterior to tin' others, the upper one more removed from center one: opercular flap very obtusely 

 rounded, not ending in a sharp point ; origin of dorsal I'm on a line with axil of pectoral, and midway between 

 tip of snout and base of eighth dorsal ray ; longest dorsal spine 3 in head, the anterior spine less than diameter 

 of eye; longest dorsal ray 2.3 in head ; origin of anal slightly nearer base of ventral than to base of caudal, and 

 on aline with base of third dorsal ray; base of anal 2.4 in head, its longest ray 2 in head, the second anal spine 

 the strongest and slightly the longest; ventrals 1.75 in head, their tips reaching a little past vent, but not to 

 base of anal fin; pectoral 1.3 in head, the tip on a line with origin of anal fin; caudal rounded, 1.75 in head. 



