NO. 1896. NEW PHILIPPINE PEDICULATE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 207 



Illicium jointed, base being between eyes, basal joint almost entirely 

 coiicoalcd, lotllike, procumbent, reaching nearly to tip of snout, 

 distal joint free, 2 in head, the bulbliko tip surmounted by many 

 short, fingerlike filaments; second dorsal spine entirely concealed by 

 skin, its jjase midway between tip of snout and gill-opening, its tip 

 it>curved, attached; second dorsal elongate, scarcely separated from 

 caudal, its ra3^s simple, all but tips concealed by skin; caudal base 

 v(M-y broad, rays well separated, distal margin rounded; anal similar 

 to second dorsal; membrane connecting caudal rays and tips of 

 dorsal and anal rays very thin, transparent; ventrals absent; pec- 

 torals 1.97, rather small, on level with mouth. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color seal brown, darkest on belly; caudal 

 hght gray, other fins body color; distal joint of first doreal spine 

 blackish mesially, bulb white with darker shades underneath, fila- 

 ments white, tipped with black; peritoneum brownisli black; stom- 

 ach mouse gray, dotted witli darker; inside of mouth with brownisli 

 shades. 



Tijpe.—C&t. No. 70269, U.S.N.M., 18.2 cm. in length, taken with 

 a beam trawl at station 5463 (lat. 13° 40' 57" N.; long. 123° 57' 45" 

 E.), near Sialat Point Light, east coast of Luzon, at a depth of 300 

 fathoms. 



Family OGCOCEPHALID.^. 



MALTHOPSIS OCELLATA Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 18, fig. 1; plate 19, fig. 1. 



Dorsal 5; caudal 9; anal 2; pectoral 12; ventral 5. 



Head large, triangular, broader than long, measured to gill-open- 

 ing 1.88 (2.34 in total length), breadth at base of spine at angle equal 

 to its distance from tip of rostral spine, 1.65 in body; rostral angle 

 about 72°; body conical, tapering, depth 6.30; caudal peduncle slen- 

 der, depth 7, length 3.36; eye 4.66, large, lateral; snout measured to 

 tip of rostral spine 6.46; mouth small, gape 4.66; jaws subequal; 

 anterior nostril circular, posterior large, slitlike; interobital 7, con- 

 cave; skin of dorsal surface with many small dermal ossicles, some of 

 these enlarged, platelike, quite regular in their arrangement, the 

 median dorsal row especially well developed and becoming double 

 within an eye diameter of eye and posteriorly near insertion of 

 dorsal; there are three rows of dermal plates along edge of disk, 

 the upper row dilated near eye, thence cun'ed doAsuward to maxil- 

 lary; the second extends to gape of mouth, the third meets its fellow 

 below tip of mandible; two well-developed rows along ventral sur- 

 face behind vent, not interspersed with small ossicles; an area on 

 either side of this row mesially in which the ossicles are scattered or 

 absent; on ventral surface a region in front of ventrals, from between 

 ventrals backward on either side of vent to posterior edge of disk 

 with small dermal plates, rest of ventral surface of disk naked; ros- 



