NEW PHILIPPINE CALLIONYMID'AE FOWLER 11 



of fish; ventral 3%, rays I, 5. Anal papilla conic, pointed, nearly 

 long as pupil. 



Color in alcohol, back and upper sui'faces light brown, warmer 

 tint on trunk and tad. Back also variegated with pale and dark 

 rings and marbling. Under surfaces of body white, with pale buff 

 and brown tints. Side of head with rather large brown spots inter- 

 spersed with white dots and small spots, and on under sides of head 

 variable, inclined, short white lines and bars. Eyes brown, variegated 

 with dark blotches above. First dorsal whitish, with black pale-edged 

 ocelli, on last two membranes largest and with dark to black bands. 

 Second dorsal pale or transparent with several brown spots on each 

 ray. Anal transparent. Caudal transparent whitish, with six trans- 

 verse bars made up of dark-brown spots, chiefly on upper half of fin. 

 Pectoral white, with small brown spots mostly on upper part of fin. 

 Ventral pale or whitish, with scattered brown spots on hind half of 

 fin. 



Philippines. Known by the long preopercular spine 1 + % times eye, 

 ends in a backward dhected barbed point behind; four low broad 

 spinides along its upper edge and a small basal forward directed spine 

 in front. The first dorsal spine is an extended filament, little shorter 

 than head. Entire under surfaces uniformly white. 



Type.— [J. S.N. M. No. 99418. Pajumajan Island (W.), S. 2° W., 

 2 miles (lat. 5° 22' 55" N., long. 120° 15' 45" E.), Sulu Archipelago, 

 Tawi Tawi Group. In 34 fathoms. February 18, 1908. Length 98 

 mm. Biu-eau of Fisheries (No. 22922). [D. 5152.] 



(Named for Bayard Long, of the Department of Botany, Academy 

 of Natiu-al Sciences of Philadelphia, to whom I am indebted for 

 many American fishes.) 



CALLIONYMUS BRUNNEUS, new species 



Figure 7 



Depth 9)^; head 3%, long as wide. Snout 2% in head; eye 3%, 1% 

 in snout ; maxiUary reaches halfway to eye, length 4% in head ; mouth 

 cleft reaches two-fifths to eye, lower jaw included; premaxillaries very 

 protractile; teeth fine, conic, pointed, villiform, in bands in jaws, 

 broader anteriorly and on sides narrowing back; interorbital narrow 

 bony frenura, separating large closely set eyes. Preopercular spine 

 large, slender, slightly longer than eye, nearly straight, ends in 

 slender long spine, with five recurved denticles along inner edge, and 

 small subbasal denticle in front directed forward. 



Lateral line complete, runs little high along side of back and out on 

 caudal base. Parietal region smooth, only some very feeble radiating 

 obscure striae, little visible except under a lens. 



