FISHES OK THE ISLANDS OF LUZON AND PANAY. t 



1.66 in eye; teeth slender, even, sharp, arranged in single series; no canines; upper jaw wider than lower and 

 projecting around it; snout sharp, about 5.5 in head; anterior nostril with a moderate tube: gill open 

 small, placed rather low. Pectorals long, 1 .6 in head: insertion of dorsal close behind base of pectoral. Di 

 En very low, not much higher than eye. Anal very low; tip of tail without fin. Color light brown, darkened 

 above by minute dots, which become sparse below; no distinct spots or bars; fins plain yellowish, 



A single specimen, 7.5 inches long, was taken by Dr. Lung at Cavite. It is numbered '.Mist in Stanford 

 I "hi \ ersity. 



The specie - is close to JenkinsieHa maegregori \ Microdonophis n acgregori Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 mission xxn, 1902, p. 422) described by Jenkins from Maui, Hawaii. It differs from that specie - in the more 

 posterior insertion of the dorsal, in the lower dorsal, and much longer pectoral. Tin' coloration is much the 



si !, Inn the tail is much longer in the Philippine species, JeiJnnsieBa nectura. The fringe of barbel-, as in 



the genus Cirrhimursena, well separates Jenkinsiella from If a donophis. 



Familj MORINGUIM. 



24. Moringua lumbricoidea Richardson. 

 One specimen, (>.."> inches in length, from Cavite. 



Family ML KJ-MD.U. 

 GYMNOTH0RAX Bloch. 

 25. Gymnothorax philippinus Jordan it Scale, new species 



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Fro. 2. -Oymnothora > species rype. 



Head 3.45 in trunk; length of head and inmk greater than length of tail bj a distance equal to length 



of -i I . eye rather huge, 1.90 in snout; length of mouth to angle 2.40 in head: a single row of sharp-pointed 



teeth in lower jaw; teeth in upper jaw in a single row, reinforced bj 3 or 4 additional teeth in palatine series; 

 three large fang-like vomerine teeth in front, with a rcra of smaller ones extending back: anterior teeth large 

 canines: fins of moderate height. 



Color in spirits, everywhere powdered with yellow and brown, lighter on belly and chin, darker onposti riot 

 two-thirds of body, which shows rather wide indistinct darker bands; a distinct black blotch at angle of 

 mouth, which unites with a black band around chin; a second dusky blotch midway between angle of mouth 

 and gill opening; gill openings uncolored: fins dark, without white margins. 



One line specimen, the type, no. 9215, Museum Stanford University, 23 inches long. 



