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U.S.N.M. No. 99413. Reef opposite Cebii, Cebu Island. AprU 7, 

 1908. Length 44 mm. 



(Named for Capt. Charles B. Hudson, whose valuable figures of 

 Japanese dragonets were published in 1903.) 



CALUONYMUS LONGI, new species 



Figure 6 



Depth 9; head 4Ko, length iKo in its width. Snout 2%, in head; 

 eye 2%, subequal with snout; maxillary nearly reaches orbit, length 

 3)8 in head; mouth cleft reaches tlu-ee-sevenths to eye, lower jaw 



Tnrrt. 



H.W.F.del 



Figure 6. — Callionymus longi, new species. Type. 



shorter or included m upper; teeth villiform, fine, close set, simple, 

 conic, in bands in jaws, narrowing along sides of jaws; interorbital 

 bony frenum separating large close set eyes. Preopercular spine very 

 long, slender, but slightly ciu*ved and ends behmd in a long slender 

 spine, fom* low broad spinules along its inner edge, and small 

 forward directed basal spine in front. 



Lateral line complete, high along side of back, with loop above 

 close before caudal fin, and extendmg out on caudal base. Occiput 

 finely striate, with striae not greatly developed. 



D. IV-9, 1, first spine slender, ends in free filament 3% in fish without 

 caudal; A. 9, i, first ray 2% m head measured to gill opening; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 4K; pectoral Iji, rays 20; caudal 2% in rest 



