NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 99 



D. VI— 15, I, end of depressed spinous fin reaches 3,4 to origin 

 of soft dorsal, first spine 31^ in head, third ray 21/3 ; A. 17, i, seventh 

 ray 2^^ ; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in eye ; caudal 2 in head, 

 apparently convex behind ; pectoral li/o in head, rays 12, iii, lowest 

 ones detached and 11/5 times fin ; ventral rays I, 4, fin 2 in head. 



Brown above, pale to whitish below. Eye gray. First dorsal 

 dark brown. Second dorsal with several brownish spots on each 

 ray. Caudal with 4 or 5 indistinct dark transverse bars. Pectoral 

 brownish, with obscure small dark variable spots, lower 3 rays 

 whitish. Ventrals and anal whitish. 



Type.—U.S.^M. no. 59588. Kagoshima, Japan. Dr. H. M. 

 Smith. 1903. Length 99 mm. 



Be}7iarks.—DiSers from Monhoplichthys gilberti (Jordan and 

 Richardson), also from Japan, in the longer maxillary reaching be- 

 low the front of the eye, conspicuous armature of the head, and 

 long detached pectoral rays. 



(Named for Dr. Hugh M. Smith.) 



PRISTHOPLICHTHYS, new genus 



Type. — HoplicMhys platophrys Gilbert. 



Scutes of lateral line each bearing large, erect, strong spine, be- 

 sides an inner smaller superior spine, thus forming 2 series of lateral 

 spines of which the upper is smaller and less conspicuous. Interorb- 

 ital broad as eye. Armature of head moderate. 



One species: PristhopUchthy^ platophrys, of Hawaiian seas. 



{Tpi(TT7]s, one who saws -\-Hoplichthys, with reference to the armature.) 



PRISTHOPLICHTHYS PLATOPHRYS (Gilbert) 



Iloplichthus platophrys Giu:ert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23. pt. 1, p. 642, 

 fig. 250, 1003 (1905) (type locality, Laysan Island, in 351 fathoms).— 

 FowLKR, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 300, 1928 (copied). 



Depth 10; head 23-4, width II/5. Snout 3 in head; eye 41/3, 1 1/2 in 

 snout, little greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches opposite 

 front eye edge; teeth very minute, villiiorm, in narrow bands in 

 jaws, on vomer and palatines; interorbital width 5, concave. Gill 

 rakers 2 + 7?, short, less than gill filaments, which 3 in eye. 



Bones of head with minute denticles or serrae, and on top of head 

 pair of moderately wide set parietals, with a postocular spine on 

 each suprapostocular ridge, and pair of moderately close set occipi- 

 tals. Serrae of lateral ridge or suborbital stay all moderate, distinct, 

 3 anterior each side directed forward and inward and one each side 

 opposite hind nostrils slightly larger and directed outward. Pre- 

 opercular outer ridge bears 3 or 4 spines graduated to larger antero- 



