NEW PHILIPPINE OALLIONYMIDAE FQi^VLER 7 



Color in alcohol, back and upper surfaces very pale bro\\Ti, washed 

 with rose, with still paler to whitish blotches, ringed areas and irregular 

 and slightly darker arcs, circles, etc. Eye gray-white, with pink tinge 

 above, and variegated with gray to dark gray. Under surface of body 

 uniform whitish, with six longitudinal gray bands, variable and irregu- 

 lar. Caudal with seven rows of large blackish blotches on lower half. 

 Fins otherwise all pale to transparent. 



Pliilippines. Characters of distinction are the long, slender pre- 

 opercular spine which equals the eye, protractile mouth, very pale 

 coloration washed with rose and with pale to whitish spots. The low 

 first dorsal has gray longitudinal lines and narrow bands. 



TVpe.— U.S.N.M. No. 99408. Pandanan Island. Seine, 130 feet. 

 March 23, 1909. Length 51 mm. 



Paratope. — U.S. 'NM. No. 99409. Same data. Length 32 mm. 



(j3oXts, diirt-\-ykvv<i, cheek ; with reference to the slender preopercular 

 spine.) 



CALLIONYMUS MARISINENSIS. new species 



Figure 4 



Depth 8}i; head 4, length 1}^ in its width. Snout 4 in head; eye 

 2Ko, about twice snout length, enters upper profile of head; maxillary 

 reaches front eye edge, miarmed; mouth cleft reaches halfway to eye, 

 lower jaw slightly shorter or included in upper jaw; teeth minute, 

 villiform, firm, simple, in narrow bands in each jaw; interorbital 

 narrow firm bony keel and separating eyes. Preopercular spine long 

 as eye, ends in rather short and slightly curved in spme, followed by 

 thi'ee or four more slightly recurved spines along its inner edge, first 

 longest and fourth (anterior) smallest; at base in front short spine 

 directed forward. Gill opening superior, small, about half long as 

 pupil. 



Lateral line high along side of back, simple, complete to caudal base. 



D. IV-9, I, fu'st spine 1^ in head, first ray IK; A. 9, i, first ray 2%; 

 caudal 3% in rest of fish, rounded behind; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 4 in head; pectoral 1, rays 18, fin rounded; ventral rays I, 5, 

 long as head. Anal papilla short, depressed, pointed. 



Color in alcohol, brown above, with innumerable darker brown 

 lines forming a marbled appearance, due to arcs, curves, rings, and 

 blotches darker and paler. Iris silvery gray. Under surface of body 

 uniform whitish. Dorsal dark or gray black with four whitish 

 oblique bands. Soft dorsal pale or whitish, with faint brown spots on 

 each ray. Anal pale or whitish. Caudal pale, with six brown spots 

 on each membrane, forming dark transverse bands in retracted fin. 

 Paired fins pale, pectoral with brown cross lines and ventral with 

 faint brown spots on each ray. 



