FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 

 162. Scolopsis luzonia Jordan \ Seale. 



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Thirteen specimens from Bacon (no. 3730 to 3733, 3403 to 3406, 3S29 to 3831, WO] and 4017: length 1 to 

 6 in.), and one from San Fabian (no. 3332). A prominent serrated ridge on maxillary. 



Scolopsis Iv onto Inrdan & Seale, Bull. Bu. Fisheries, XXVI, 1006. Cavite, Luzon. (Collected by Dr. Lung; type, no. 9243, 

 Stanford Univ.). 



163. Scolopsis monogTammus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt ). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3277; length 5.85 in.). 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.5 In head: snoul 3; interorbital equals eye scales 5-48-11, 6 rows on 

 cheek. 



Color in spirits, yellowish; an indistinct dusky hand almost width of eye From head to caudal. 



This species is close to S. personatus, from which it differs in the greater depth, narrower interorbital, 

 smaller scales, and in having ti rows of scales i in-trad of 5) on the cheek. 



Scolopsides monogramma Kuhl & Van Basselt In Cuvicr & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss.,v,254 138 Java; Gunther Cat. 



1,358. 



Scolopsis monogramma, Bieeker, Ulas, vm, 11, pi. cccxxxv, fig. :t. 



164. Scolopsis bulanensis Evermann & Seale', new species. 



Head 3.25 in length: depth 3.3; eye 2.75 in head: interorbital 3.5; snoul 3.55; dorsal \. 9; anal in. 7; 

 scales 4-43 It). 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth ,if caudal peduncle :; in head; anterior profile of head -lightly 

 convex above eyes; mouth rather small, jaws equal maxillary 3.75 in head, it- distal end not reaching to 



Fig. 5— Scolopsis bulanen Evermann <! Seale, new species. Type. 



anterior margin of orbit; mandible 2.95 in head; teeth villiform in jaws and on vomer; preorbital width 3 

 in eye. with one strong spine above and 2 smaller ones below . the large one reaching slightly pasl middle of 

 eye; gillrakers consisting of blunt knobs, about 7 on lower arch: posterior margin of preopercle denticulate; 



operclc with a single spi nr at its posterior margin: body fullj scaled, 5 scries on cl k: scales on top of head 



minute, those on belly larger; vertical fins unsealed, but lining into scaly sheath: origin of dorsal slightly 

 posterior to origin of pectoral, longest spine 2.7") in head, longest ray 2.7."i: origin of anal neater origin of 

 ventrals than to base of caudal; its longest ray 2.7 in head, the second anal spine longest and strongest, 2.5 in 

 head, base of anal 3.6 in base of dorsal: ventrals 1.3 in bead, their tip falling far short of anal: pectoral 1.35 

 in bead, scarcely reaching tip of ventrals; caudal forked. 



Color in spirits, dull yellowish brown: an indistinct dusky longitudinal line on side; short oblique black 

 lines between pectoral fin and lateral line; an oblong white blotch extending forward and downward from 

 posterior axil of dorsal to near middle of bodj a black spot at axil of pectoral, another on posterior portion 

 of operclc just in front of pectoral; fins unmarked. 



