NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 



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sal bases 27 spinous bucklers, of which 10 along spinous dorsal base. 

 Scales with 8 to 10 rather large, parallel erect denticles on apical 

 half; circuli fine, even. 



D. IX-18, third spine 21/5 in head, third ray 21/2; A. 17, eighth 

 ray 3 ; caudal 1%, slightly concave behind ; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 1% in eye; pectoral reaches ly^ to caudal, 1% in fish without 

 caudal; pectoral rays 11, 5, iv-iii, uppermost of 3 lower detached rays 

 2% in upper section of })ectoral; ventral 1^/4 iii^ head, reaches front 

 of anal. 



Light brown, under surface of head and belly whitish. Iris pale 

 to whitish. Spinous dorsal pale with gray black blotch broadly 

 terminal on fourth to eighth membranes. Pectoral with up]:)er half 

 of upper section gray black. Fins otherwise all pale or whitish. 



FiGDRE 49. — Lepidotrigla pectoralis, new species. Type. 



Type.— v. S.'NM. no. 98878. (4256.) D. 5517. Point Tagolo Light, 

 S. 83° W., 10.5 miles (lat. 8°45'30" N., long. 123°33'45" E.), vicinity 

 of northern Mindanao, In 169 fathoms. August 9, 1909. Length 

 140 mm. 



Remavhs. — Suggestive of LepidotngJa japonica (Bleeker) but that 

 species with greatly larger scales, difi'erent physiognomy, much 

 shorter scaly predorsal and larger suprascapular spine, also with- 

 out the large black blotch on the spinous dorsal. 



{pectoralis., pectoral, with reference to its long pectorals.) 



LEPIDOTRIGLA ARGYROSOMA, new species 



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Depth 4% (in length measured from snout tip) ; head 31/^, width 

 1%. Snout 214 in head; eye 31/2, II/2 iri snout, greatly exceeds inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches opposite front e3'e edge, length 2I/2 in 

 head; teeth minute, villiform, in narrow bands in jaws, none on pal- 



