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Scales in lateral line 13 to 15 + 5 or 6 +2 or 3 ; 2 scales above lateral 

 line, 6 below, 7 to 10 predorsal; single large scale covers hind portion 

 of cheek. Scales with 6 to 8 basal radiating striae, apical 21 to 29; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 9, I or 10, I, eighth spine 2}/^ to 23^ in head, first ray 2^/^ to 

 Z}4; A. Ill, 8, I, third spine 2}/^ to 2%, first ray 2% to 2}^; caudal 

 1|^ to 134, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^ to 3; 

 pectoral 1^^ to 2; ventral 2yo to 2^. 



Brown generally. Pale band transversely across front of caudal 

 peduncle. Pale vertical band close behind eye, extending above and 

 below. Iris brown, with yellowish ring around pupil. Vertical fins 

 all pale brownish, with black ocellus at last dorsal spines, on front of 

 soft anal and at caudal subterminally and medianly. Sometimes 

 caudal blotch broken or absent. Ventral largely black, basally 

 broadly whitish and marginally narrowly whitish, within and depress 

 against dusky or blackish bro^vn blotch in abdomen size of their own 

 extent. 



Type.— C&t. No. 89968, U.S.N.M. 



Known only from the Philippines and the 4 examples below. 



[1678.] Atulayan Island. June 18, 1909. Length, 39 mm. No transverse 

 white lines on body. Only rather obscure transverse broad pale band at front 

 of caudal peduncle. No white line on side of snout. 



1 example, Little Santa Cruz, Zamboanga. May 26, 1908. Length, 56 mm. 

 Type. 



2 examples, Mabul Island. September 29, 1909. Length, 45 to 47 mm. 

 17609. port Langcan, Palawan. April 8, 1919. Length, 40 mm. 



1 example, Rapurapu Island. June 24, 1909. Length, 49 mm. Paratype. 



Pale band behind head extends across occiput and bounded by brown line in 



front and behind its entire extent. 

 13704. Cape Kait, Libani Bay. Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length, 48 mm. 



Paratype. 



(Named for the Philippines.) 



Genus EPIBULUS Cuvler 



Epibulus CuviER, RSgne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 264. Type Sparus insidia- 

 tor Pallas, monotypic. 



Body oblong, compressed. Mouth exceedingly protractile and 

 lower jaw greatly produced backward; ascending branches of pre- 

 maxillaries, mandibles and tympanic greatly prolonged. Teeth uni- 

 serial; front canines^; no hind canines. Preopercle entire. Lateral 

 line inten-upted. Scales very large, but 2 rows cover cheek. Dorsal 

 spines 9, pungent, rays 10 or 11. Anal spines 3, rays 8 or 9. 



A single species in the Indo-Pacific, remarkable among all fishes for 

 the exceptionally protractile mouth. 



