NEW PHILIPPINE CALLIONYMIDAE FOAVLER 19 



Type.— U.S.N. M. No. 99426. Cebii market. August 28, 1909, 

 Length 69 mm. Male. [1835.] 



Paratypes.—V .S.N .M. No. 99429. Cebu market, Cebu. ISIarch 

 20, 1909. Length 40 mm. Female. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99431. Cebu m.arkct. March 28, 1909. Length 

 41 mm. Male. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99428. Cebu market. August 26, 1909. Length 

 52 to 58 mm. Males. Three examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99427. Cebu market. August 28, 1909. Length 

 45 to — mm. Males. Two examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99432. Guijulugan, Tanon Strait, east coast of 

 Negros. Shore seme. April 2, 1908. Males. Length 48 to 59 mm. 

 Two examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99430. Port Matalvi, off western Luzon. Seine 

 150 feet. November 23, 1908. Females. Length 35 to 42 mm. 

 Two examples. 



{8is, twice + (jT^Oos, breast + ^fifia, eye; with reference to the 

 double ocellated spot on each side of breast.) 



CALLIONYMUS LEUCOBRANCHIALIS, new species 



Figures 12 (male), 13 (female) 



Depth 8K to 10%; head 3%o to 4:%, long as wide. Snout 2% to 3 m 

 head; eye 2% to 3, subequal with snout; maxillary reaches seven- 

 eighths to eye or little below front of eye; outer ridge in males with row 

 of denticles, entire in female; mouth cleft horizontal, rictus three- 

 sevenths in space to eye; lower jaw slightly included in male, jaws 

 subequal or lower slightly protrudes in female; teeth fine, minute, 

 villiform, crowded and in narrow bands in both jaws; interorbital 

 narrow bony frenum, with longitudinal groove, bony width about half 

 diameter of pupil. Preopercular spine long as eye, ends in short 

 curved point behmd, with three or four recurved denticles along its 

 inner edge, and short denticle basal in front directed forward. 



Lateral line complete, distinct, extends high along side of back 

 out on caudal base, with or without loop over caudal peduncle above 

 and just before caudal base. Parietal region smooth, radiating striae 

 feeble and not very distinct. 



D. IV-9, I, or 10, I, spines all prolonged into slender free filaments 

 terminally reaching well mto caudal base in males, first dorsal spine 

 VA in head in females, first dorsal ray 1% to 1%; A. 9, i, first ray 2Ko 

 to 2% in males; caudal nearly long as rest of fish, in females caudal 

 3 m rest of fish; least depth of caudal peduncle 4% to 5 in total head 

 length; pectoral greater than head in males or 3% in fish without caudal, 

 subequal with head in females, rays 17 or 18; ventral rays I, 5, fin 

 3% in fish without caudal or 1}^ in head. Anal papilla long, slender. 



