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First dorsal shaded with dark brown, and large black ocellus on second 

 membrane. Second dorsal largely transparent, with dark basal spot 

 in front. Anal dark brown marginally, pale basally. Caudal white, 

 with 10 transverse rows of dark-brown spots, these chiefly on mem- 

 branes. Pectoral transparent, with 2 dark spots subbasally above. 

 Ventral becomes dark brown terminally, also with some ill-defined 

 scattered brown spots on rays. 



Philippines. A species defined chiefly by the dark-brown color of 

 the breast of the male. It is quite different from Callionymus maldi- 

 vensis Regan,^ the males of which are said to have an oblong blackish 

 blotch on the tkroat. Callionymus margaretae Regan,^ based on 

 material 47 mm. long without caudal, is described with an oblong 

 blackish or triangular patch on the throat in the male. It differs in 

 the male having the first dorsal spine produced in a filament 2% in the 

 fish excluding the caudal. Its preopercular spine is said to be straiglit, 

 with serrated inner edge and forwardly directed spinous extension at 

 base in front. 



Type.— U.S.N. M. No. 99433. D. 5345. Cliff Island, S. 43° E., 

 4.4 miles (lat. 10°50' N., long. 119°22'03" E.), Malampaya Sound, 

 Palawan Island. December 26, 1908. In 7 fathoms. Length 47 

 mm. Male. 



Paratype.— U.S.N. M. No. 99434. Same data. Length 38 mm. 

 Female. 



(umbra, dark place + thorax.) 



CALLIONYMUS SCABBICEPS, new species 



Figure 2 



Depth 6; head 3%, length iKo in width. Snout 2% in head; eye 2%, 

 subequal with snout, well protruded on upper profile of head; maxillary 

 reaches three-fourths to eye, entire; mouth cleft reaches halfway to 

 eye, upper jaws greatly protractile and mandible shorter or included in 

 upper jaw; teeth very fine, minute, villiform, in narrow bands in jaws; 

 no interorbital space, eyes closely set in apposition. Preopercular 

 spine long, slender, greater than orbit, inner edge with eight antrorse 

 spinules, and small spine at front of base directed forward. 



Lateral line elevated, high along side of back, complete. Along 

 and above course of lateral line four short vertical bars of papillae or 

 pores, last over caudal peduncle before caudal fin base. Parietal 

 region of head with striate rugae, rather coarse and irregular. 



D. IV-9, I, first spine 1% in head, first ray 1%; A. 8, i, first ray 2^; 

 caudal 2% in rest of fish, cuneate ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 in 



> Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, voL 12, ZooL, p. 247, pi. 30, flg. 3, 1908 (type locality: Maldives, S. 

 Nilandu. in 30 to 36 fathoms). 



3 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, No. 2, p. 326, pi. 3, fig. 3, 1905 (type locality; Muscat, in 15 to 30 

 fathoms). 



