NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 107 



each membrane. Upper section of pectoral with large gray black 

 blotch, border all around whitish, also each ray on outer face nar- 

 rowly whitish. Ventral pale yellowish brown, edge all around 

 white. Fins otherwise whitish. 



Type.—U.S.^M. no. 98873. (2-13G3.) D. 5442. San Fernando 

 Point Light, N. 39° E., 8.4 miles (lat. 16°30'36'' N., long. 120°11'06'' 

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

 94 mm. 



Also a series of Philippine paratypes. 



Remarl's. — Apparently this is close to, if not synonymous with, 

 Lepidotngla spiloptera var. longipimiis Alcock. According to Al- 

 cock it "only differs from the type in the great length of the pectoral 

 fins, which reach to, or beyond, the 9th anal ray." As this name was 

 proposed by Alcock in 1890 it is precluded by Lepidotrigla longi- 

 pinnk Steindachner and Doderlein, 1887. 



{apyvpos, silver+o-ci/ia, body.) 



Pristhoplotkigla, new subgenus 



Type. — Lepidotrigla strauchi Steindachner. 



Characterized by the spinous bucklers, in a row each side of the 

 base of the first dorsal fin, with a serrated edge. This is also visible 

 in a lateral view but not shown on published figures. 



{wp'L<7Tr]s, saw + oTrXoj', [iTTi\or-\- Trigla.) 



Stagonotrigla, new subgenus 



Type. — Lepir/ofrigla maerohi'achiiim.^ new species. 



This group is defined chiefly by the spotted dark area of "he pec- 

 toral fins, as seen from the inside. The pectoral is variable in length, 

 from short to long. 



((TTaTcov, spot+ Tn^Zo.) 



LEPIDOTRIGLA PUNCTIPECTORALIS, new species 

 F^QUBB 51 



Depth 41/^ in length measured from snout tip; head 3xVr width 

 1%. Snout 2% in head from snout tip; eye 3%, 1% in snout, slightly 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to eye, length 3 in 

 head from snout tip ; mouth width 21/4 ; teeth minutely villiform, in 

 bands in jaws, upper band broadly exposed when mouth closes; 

 interorbital 5I/3 in head from snout tip, deeply concave. Gill rakers 

 1 + 13, of which lowest 6 mere rudiments; longest % of gill fila- 

 ments, which 214 in eye. 



Pair of broadly flattened, triangular rostral spines, about 21/2 irt 

 eye, edges of each entire; 2 low, short, antero-supraorbital spines 



