NEW PHILTPPIN'E CALLIONYMIDAE FOWLER 5 



bead; pectoral rays 19, fin 1 in head; ventral 3 in fish without caudal, 

 ra^/s I, 5. 



Color in alcohol, back brown, with six darker saddlelikc cross bands, 

 though ill-defined and more or less obscured by paler rings or blotches, 

 the various shades producing more or less mottled appearance above. 

 Dark-brown blotches also on sides of head and prepectoral region. 

 Eye gray-brown, with darker mottling and spots. Under surface of 

 body uniform whitish. First dorsal with dark-brown spots, obscurely 

 ocellated with paler and with some h'regular white spots on last two 

 membranes. Second dorsal transparent, with three and sometimes 



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Figure 2.-^Callionymus scahriceps, new species. Type. 



fom' longitudinal rows of black ocelli, subbasal and median series most 

 contrasted. Anal with rays tipped white and submarginallj'- dark 

 brown, shading paler basally on fin. Caudal transparent, with eight 

 transverse dark-brown bands on lower two-thirds of fin, and in each 

 band brownish-black spot, only distinct as fin is expanded. Pectoral 

 largely colorless. Ventral variegated with brown, as pale to whitish 

 spots, producing a mottled appearance. 



Philippines. Distinguished by its combination of characters, espe- 

 cially the prominent long slender attenuated preopercular spine, which 

 is \% times the eye and furnished with 8 antrorsc spinules along its 

 inner edge, besides a small spine directed forward at its base in front. 

 Top of head rugose. Snout subequal with eye. 



