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adnate to dorsal surface; soft dorsal high, the rays of nearly uniform 

 length, l.Sl, ])ase of fui longer than liead, the last six rays divided; 

 caudal 1.33, margin rounded; anal 1.81, deep; ventrals 2.16, all 

 of the rays simple; pectorals 1.33, tips reaching beyond insertion of 

 anal. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color dark brownish green, shading uito 

 purple, scantily mottled with brownish yellow; tips of fins lighter; a 

 black blotch at base of eighth doi-sal ra}'; slight traces of a brownish 

 band across base of caudal. 



Type.— Cat. No. 70267, U.S.N.M., 2.1 cm. in length, from Xogas 

 Point, Panay, taken in tide pool mth copper sulphate. 



ANTENNARIUS SUBTERES Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 17, lig. 1. 



Dorsal iii-12; anal 7; ventral 5; pectoral 9. 



Head as deep as long, length measured to anterior margin of 

 gill-opening 1.80 (2.24 in total length); breadth 1.77 in its length; 

 depth of body 1.80 (2.24 in total length); caudal peduncle long, 

 slender, compressed, depth 5, length 4.33; eye 10 in head, 2 in 

 snout, inconspicuous; snout 5; mouth oblique; jaws subequal; 

 teeth on jaws long, depressible; similar teeth on vomer and pala- 

 tmes; tongue large, fleshy; maxillary 2.60, reacliing vertical to 

 middle of eye; nostrils circular, close together, fleshy rim little 

 developed; interorbital 4.33; skm comparatively smooth, slender 

 spmules protruding through m places, most abundant on second 

 and third dorsal spines and ventral surface, those on head and body 

 inconspicuous but noticeable when the finger is passed forward over 

 the body. 



Fii-st doi-sal spme (bait) 5, basal liaK bristle-like, distal portion 

 enlarged, spongy; second spine 2.80, long, slender, not adnate to 

 dorsal surface, armed with well-developed spinules; third as long 

 as second, adnate to back; dorsal rays small, all except tips covered 

 with a coating of smooth tough skin, last three rays divided; caudal 

 2.27, narrow, rounded; anal similar to soft dorsal; ventrals 5, very 

 small; pectorals 2.27, small. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color purplish brown with 3'ellowish 

 gray mottlings; distal portion of vertical fins dark purphsh brown, 

 with light edging; doi-sal surface of tongue with gray and brownish 

 mottlmgs; peritoneum wliite. 



Type.— Cat. No. 70268, U.S.N.M., 5.6 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5442 (lat. 16° 30' 36" N.; long. 120° U' 06" 

 E.), Lingayen Gulf, west coast of Luzon, at a depth of 45 fathoms, 

 on a bottom of coral sand. 



