NEW PHILIPPINE CALLIONYMIDAE FOWLER 13 



spine directed straight back, with five small antrorse spines along its 

 upper edge, and a small spine directed forward from its base. First 

 dorsal spine a little longer than tlie others in the male and less than 

 the head. Last two dorsal membranes black and anal with a black 

 siibmarginal line. 



Type.— V.S.N M. No. 99419. Balayan Bay, Taal. January 19, 

 1908. From fishermen's seine. Length 80 mm. 



Paratypes. — U.S.N.M. No. 99420. Same data as for type. Length 

 67 to 78 mm. Seven specimens. 



U.S.N.M. No. 99421. Subig Bay, Subig, southern Luzon. From 

 seine. January 7, 1908. Length 34 to 52 mm. Two specimens. 



(brunneus, brown.) 



CALLIONYMDS PUNCTILATERALIS, new epecicB 



Figure 8 



Depth 8; head 4%, length %o of width. Snout 2 in head; eye 4, 2 in 

 snout; maxillary reaches two-thirds to eye, ridges and edges entire; 

 mouth cleft reaches halfway to eye, lower jaw slightly shorter and 

 included in upper when mouth is closed; teeth in villiform bands in 

 jaws, bands broken anteriorly; teeth strong, fu-m, conic, close set, and 

 in quite narrow bands on sides of jaws; interorbital narrow, concave, 

 width about equals diameter of pupil. Preopercular spine slender, 

 1% times eye, ends in point behind; seven recurved small denticles 

 along inner edge; small basal spine directed forward. Gill opening 

 small, an orbital diameter behind eye. 



Lateral line complete, but little waved or undulate, high along side 

 of back. Parietals each with radiating striae. 



D. IV-9, 1, first spine largely detached, prolonged, 3% in fish without 

 caudal, first ray 1% in head; A. 9, i, first ray 2J^; caudal 2% in rest of 

 fish; least depth of caudal peduncle 3K in head; pectoral rays 20, fin 

 iKo in head; ventral rays I, 5, fin 3% in fish without caudal. Anal 

 papilla slender, tapering, depressed, three-fourths length of orbit. 



Color in alcohol, burnt umber or warm brown above, variegated 

 with many close-set intricated darker marblings, arcs, circles, and 

 vermiculating lines. Lower surfaces uniform whitish. All along 

 sides of head and body very numerous thickly strewn, dark to black- 

 ish-brown spots. On lower side of head and thorax spots larger or as 

 blackish blotches, especially contrasted with whitish of under surfaces. 

 Iris gray, variegated with darker spots on orbit above. First dorsal 

 with first and second membranes largely white, marked with some 

 black white-ringed ocelli; other membranes blackish, with four or five 

 oblique whitish lines. Second dorsal with graj^ to black ocelli, variable 

 on fm membranes. Anal largelj'' shaded gray-brown below or toward 

 margins. Caudal marked with large white-ringed ocelli on greater 



