NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 113 



stay feeble, ends in short spine at angle of preopercle. Opercular 

 spine small. Scales small, firmly adherent, hastate and each ending 

 in an apical spine. Patch of scales across breast. Row of imperfect 

 scabrous plates along each side of first dorsal base, none along second 

 dorsal. Lateral line distinct, complete, little high along side of 

 body. Dorsal with 8 spines, but little shorter than soft fin. Anal 

 opposite to and like soft dorsal, origin little advanced. Caudal mod- 

 erate, but little emarginate. Pectoral long, reaches little over half 

 way to caudal. Ventral reaches vent. 



Related to Pterygotrlgla Waite, 1899, but that genus with a very 

 short suprascapular spine, shorter rostral spines, and no postero- 

 supraorbital spines. 



Ptei^gotrigJa ryul-yuensis Matsubara and Hiyama, 1932, may be- 

 long in the present genus, rather than in Pterygotrigla^ as here under- 

 stood. Its squamation is not described, and judged from the figure 

 the scales would appear to be rounded rather than ending in an 

 apical spine as in Bovitrigla. The condition of the breast is not 

 given. 



Quite likely Otohime Jordan and St arks, 1907, based on Trigla 

 hemisticta Schlegel, is a valid genus. Its different physiognomy, to- 

 gether with the greatly enlarged and elongate opercular spine, is 

 diagnostic. 



THgla leptacanthus Giinther is evidently a member of the present 

 genus, though it differs from the genotype in various minor items 

 specifically. 



{hos, hwW + Tngla.) 



BOVITRIGLA TRIACANTHUS (Gunther) 



Trigla triacanthus Gunthee, Report ou the scientific results of the voyage of 

 H. M. S. ChaUerifjer, vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 42, pi. 18, fig. B, 1880 (type locality, 

 Ki Islands, in 129 fathoms). 



Differs from Bovitrigla dcanthomoplate in the greatly shorter 

 humeral spine, narrower interorbital, shorter maxillary, uppermost 

 of lower 3 detached pectoral rays reaching only well short of anal 

 or perhaps only to vent, and its details of coloration. Giinther does 

 not mention the scales on the breast, if present, and his figure fails 

 to reveal any. 



BOVITRIGLA ACANTHOMOPLATE, new species 



Figure 54 



Depth 4 in body measured from snout tip; head 2%, width 1%. 

 Snout 21/8 in head from snout tip; eye 3%, 1% in snout, 1% in 

 interorbital; mouth width 3; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 

 2% in head from snout tip ; band of very fine villiform teeth in each 



