NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWLER 121 



each bearing a small, low spine. Soft dorsal with a low, inconspic- 

 uous, short spine each side basally of each ray, very evident as the 

 finger is drawn along the base of the fin. 



Scales very minute, in oblique rows along side of body, chest, breast, 

 prepectoral, sV':'i!'i' around bases of paired fins, and narrow loop 

 around front of sj^iuous dorsal naked. Lateral line distinct, tubes 50 

 in its course to caudal base. Bones of head all minutely rugose stri- 

 ate, rough velvety to touch. 



D. VIII-12, I, fourth spine 31/3 in head from snout tip, fifth ray 

 21^; A. 12, eighth ray 2%, fin edge not notched; caudal 1%, its hind 

 edge very slightly concave ; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% in eye ; 

 pectoral long, reaches li/4 to caudal, fin length 2 in fish from snout 

 tip to caudal base, rays i, 8, iv-iii, uppermost of 3 lower detached 

 rays 13^ in upper section of fin ; ventral inserted little before pectoral 

 base, with spine and 5 rays, fin length 1% in head from snout tip. 



Pale or light brownish, most of head and belly whitish. Iris pale, 

 evidently white in life. Spinous dorsal with membranes brownish 

 terminally. Membranes of upper section of pectoral, connecting 

 branched rays, gray black, edge of fin rather narrowly whitish. 



7^y^e._U.S.N.M. no. 98874. (4143.) D. 5516. Port Tagolo Light 

 (Mindanao), S. 80° W., 9.7 miles (lat. 8°46', N., long. 123°32'30" E.), 

 vicinity of northern Mindanao. In 175 fathoms. August 9, 1909. 

 Length 134 mm. 



Also paratype, U.S.N.M. no. 98982. (1435.) D. 5412. Lauis 

 Point Light, N. 21° E. 5.5 miles (lat. 10°9'15'' N., long. 123°52' E.), 

 between Cebu and Bohol. In 162 fathoms. March 23, 1909. Length 

 128 mm. 



(ottXittjs, armed.) 



Family PERISTEDIIDAE 

 Gargariscinae, new subfamily 



Type genus, Gargariscus H. M. Smith. Upper jaw with teeth, 

 lower toothless. 



Includes Gargariscus and Heminodus. 



Genus GARGARISCUS H. M. Smith 



GARGARISCUS PRIONOCEPHALUS (Dumeril) 



Perisfedioii undulatus Weber, 1^12, = Gargariscus semidentatus H. 

 M. Smith, 1917, both to fall with Peristethidion prionocephalum 

 Dumeril 1868. 



Of G. semidentatus H. M. Smith I have examined the type and 

 other Philippine material. 



