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Tijpe.—V.S.^M. no. 98870. (24377.) D. 5442. San Fernando 

 Point Light, N. 39° E., 8.4 miles (lat. 16°30'36" N., long. 120nr6" 

 E.), west coast of Luzon. In 45 fathoms. May 10, 1909. Length 162 

 mm to end of broken caudal. 



Remarks. — Also a series of Philippine specimens in 108 to 445 

 fathoms. 



Differs from Peristedion m'erstrassi, and P. picturatum in the 

 supraorbital and occipital spines higher, snout longer, and the upper 

 detaclied pectoral ray reaches front of anal. It agrees in tlie rostral 

 extensions spineless and the dorsal spines 6. 

 nPXus, obtuse 4-7^^''^5, chin.) 



RW.F.del. 



Figure 58. — Peristedion amhlygenys, new species. Type. 



Genus SATYRICHTHYS Kaup 



SATYRICHTHYS CLAVILAPIS, new species 

 FiouKB 59 



Depth 4% in length measured from -snout tip inside rostral ex- 

 tensions; head 21/3, width 11/2. Snout ly^ in head; eye SVs, 234 in 

 snout, equals interorbital ; maxillary extends % to eye, length 214 in 

 head ; mouth width 21/3 ; barbel 3%, with 3 long filaments ; pair of 

 rather long lower mental filaments, one each side of mandibular 

 symphysis, though no others; no teeth; interorbital 514 in head, 

 deeply concave, superciliary ridges broad and elevated. Gill rakers 

 6+18, of which 3 or 4 above and below small rudiments; length 

 3 in eye ; gill filaments % of gill rakers. 



Pair of broad, flattened, thin, attenuated, rostral extensions, longer 

 than eye or equal to postocular space, interspace equals basal w^idth 

 of either extension ; single and rather large postero-supraorbital spine 

 each side, with keel leading back to large, strong occipital spine, % 

 of eye; postocular keel ends in blunt, short suprascapular spine; 



