NEW PHrLTPPIN'E CALLIONYMID.'LE FOi\\T.ER 



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Color in alcohol, pale buff -brown , inclining to whitish below. Upper 

 part of back with very faint traces of light blotches or spots, variable 

 though rather large. Iris grayish. First dorsal whitish, with large 

 black ocellus terminally on third membrane, and other membranes 

 with white and brownish shades. Second dorsal pale, with some 

 pure-white blotches medially or in upper half, in some lights these 

 markings reflected as brownish. A pale or transparent like second 

 dorsal, with subterminal dark-brown band, beyond or on edge of nar- 

 row white line. Caudal transparent with white markings as three 

 imperfect transverse bands sloping little back, as upper part of fin, 



Synchiropus grinnelli, new species. Type. 



and two large white basal blotches. Pectoral transparent, with 

 obscure w^hitish basally and tw^o very imperfect whitish bars above 

 transversely. Ventral pale to whitish, with two dark blotches on 

 each ray, outer or subterminal darker, and fin edge narrowly white. 



A handsome species with large orbits greatly exceeding length of 

 snout. Preopercular spine half length of orbit, ends in upturned 

 spine, besides another spine above slightly bent forward, but no 

 lower basal spine. The species is known by its peculiar physiognomy, 

 the greatly enlarged orbits, and bony broad triangular postorbital. 

 Dorsal and anal both with membranes notched marginally. 



T?/i>g.— U.S.N.M. No. 99436. D. 5475. San Bernardino Light, 

 S. 27° W., 11 miles (lat. 12°55'26" N., long. 124°22'12" E.), east 



