NO. 189G. NEW PHILIPPINE PEDICULATE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 213 



CCELOPHRYS ARCA Smith and Radcllffe, new species, 

 riate 24, fig. 2; plate 26, fig. 4; plate 27, fig. 4. 



Dorsal 5; caudal 9; anal 4; ventral 5; pectoral 15. 



Head box-shaped, widest in front of pectoral base, strongly arched, 

 length measured to anterior margin of gill-opening 1.23, breadth 

 1.47, its depth 1.71 in its length; body veiy short, the whole fish 

 having the general appearance of some of the trunk-fishes; length of 

 body exclusive of caudal 5.36; eye 5.33, large, lateral; snout 4.80, 

 broad; mouth large, slightly oblique, jaws subequal; villiform teeth 

 on jaws; palate and tongue edentulous; maxillary 3; nostrils prom- 

 nent, on level of lower half of eye, anterior aperture tubular, posterior 

 sHt-like; interorbital 2.28, broad, depressed, extending obliquely 

 downward to broad truncate margin of rostrum; incised truncate 

 front margin of rostrum in vertical to tip of jaws, angles projecting 

 slightly; the low tentacular cavity wider than eye, extending back- 

 ward to posterior margin of pupil; illicium short, protractile, reaching 

 scarcely more than half way to aperture, median lobe ending in a 

 bifurcate tip; tubercles stellate, fewer than in related species, the 

 prickles being so much farther apart that the furry appearance is 

 largely lost; prickles on lateral plates mostly bifid, those on ventral 

 surface small, separate. 



With the exception of the ventrals, the fins are well developed; 

 insertion of dorsal midway between posterior margin of eye and tip of 

 caudal, longest ray 3.87; caudal 2.28, margin rounded ; anal scarcely 

 separated from caudal, longest ray 3.87; ventrals 6.86, poorly devel- 

 oped, less than a third of the length of pectorals; pectorals 2.18. 



Color in alcohol: Creamy; tubercular spines along edge of disk and 

 basal two-thirds of ventrals blackish. 



Type.— C&t. No. 70276, U.S.N.M., 4.1 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5295 (lat. 13° 33' 15'' N.; long. 121° E.), in 

 Verde Island Passage, near Escarceo Point, at a depth of 231 fathoms, 

 on a bottom of gray sand. 



CCELOPHRYS BREVIPES Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 25, fig. 2; plate 26, fig. 2; plate 27, fig. 2. 



Dorsal 6; caudal 9; anal 4; ventral 5; pectoral 13. 



Head long, strongly arched, greatest breadth equaling the greatest 

 depth, length measured to anterior margin of gill-opening 1.24, 

 breadth 1.80; body very short, length exclusive of caudal 4.62; eye 

 4.83, large, lateral; snuut 4.14, narrow; mouth large, horizontal, 

 jaws subequal ; villiform teeth on jaws; palate and tongue edentulous; 

 maxillary 3.22; nostrils well developed, on level with lower half of 

 eye, apertures separated by a thin membranous skin; interorbital 

 2.90, convex; tentacular aperture large, nearly as liigh as long, its 

 width equaling horizontal diameter of eye, cavity spacious, extend- 



