FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 751 



No. 71970 U.S.N.M. Tanegashima Island. AlMtross collection 1906. Length, 



61-130 mm. 31 examples. 

 No. 76542 U.S.N.M. Karuizawa, Japan. August 1914. Dr. Fred Baker. 



Length, 172-184 mm. 3 examples. 

 No. 79265 to 79267 U.S.N.M. Philippines. E. H. Taylor. Length, 160-240 mm. 



3 examples. 

 No. 84211 U.S.N.M. Philippine Islands. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 130 mm. 

 No. 84246 U.S.N.M. Philippine Islands. Dr. Fred Baker. Length, 33-47 mm. 



33 examples. 



Genus CNIDOGLANIS Gunther 



Cnidoglanis GiInthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 5, p. 27, 1864. (Type, 

 Plotosus megastomus Richardson, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, 

 pt. 3, p. 332, 1919.) 



Body elongate, tail tapering. Head depressed. Eye small, cov- 

 ered with skin. Mouth cleft transverse, rounded in front. Lips 

 thick, papillose, upper prominent. Barbels 8. Upper jaw teeth 

 conic, mixed in lower jaw, vomerine molarlike. Front nostril on 

 front edge of upper lip, directed upward. Hind nostril just behind 

 nasal barbel. Gill membranes united below throat and joined with 

 isthmus along entire median line. Second and third branchial 

 arches with series of long cartilaginous processes covering bases of 

 all laminae on sides facing each other. Front dorsal short, with 

 pungent spine, inserted above or behind pectoral origin. Second 

 dorsal long, confluent like anal with caudal, which pointed behind. 

 Pectoral with denticulated spine. Ventral rays 10 to 13. 



CNIDOGLANIS NUDICEPS Gunther 



Cnidoglmus nudiceps Gtjnthee, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 8, p. 49, 1883 

 (type locality: Arafura Sea). — Webeb and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian 

 Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 232, fig. 92, 1913 ( type ) .—Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 10, p. 63, 1928 (compiled). 



Depth 11; head 7, long as trunk to vent. Snout 2% in head; eye 

 51/^, 2^8 in snout; nasal barbel reaches 1% to gill opening, maxillary 

 reaches halfway, mandibular and mental subequal or 11/4 in snout; 

 lower lip not pendant or fringed, lateral fold at mouth corner not 

 produced in barbel; maxillary teeth conical, in 2 small partly tri- 

 angular patches; mandibular teeth in band; vomerine teeth more 

 obtuse, in 2 series forming subcrescentic band; occipital region 

 osseous, not covered with loose skin. Isthmus broader than inter- 

 orbital. Branchiostegals 7. 



First dorsal lower than body, begins about eye diameter behind 

 gill opening, spine serrated in front and behind, 2l^ in head to hind 

 opercle edge, fin height 2; caudal length 21/10 ; pectoral 2; ventral 21^. 



Light brownish. Fins with black margin. Length, 240 mm. 

 (Weber and Beaufort.) 



Arafura Sea. The type, in the British museum, is the only 

 specimen known. 



