NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWLER 



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Remarhs. — Besides the above are 6 paratypes, same data, 8G to 210 

 mm long. Apparently most closely related to Hoplichthys acantho- 

 pleurus Regan from Saya de Malha Ban, Indian Ocean. That spe- 

 cies would differ in its lower spinous dorsal, "scarcely higher in the 

 male than in the female", and shown in the original figure of the male 

 as 31/4 for first spine in the head, in the male most all the dorsal 

 rays ending in long filaments and the 3 detached pectoral filaments 

 134 in the fin. 



(Named for Dr. William K. Gregory, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History.) 



MONHOPLICHTHYS PROSEMION, new species 

 FiGUBE 45 



Depth 121/2; head 31/3, width li^. Snout 31/3 in head; eye 32/3, li/g 

 in snout; maxillary reaches first % in eye, length 2% in head; teeth 

 minutely villiform, in bands in jaws, band over vomer and narrow 



RW.F.del. 

 FiGUBE 45. — MonhopUchthys proaemion, new genus, new species. Type. 



one on each palatine; interorbital narrow, concave, width 6 in eye. 

 Gill rakers 2 + 12, low, short, robust, % of gill filaments, which 5 in 

 eye. 



Bones of head all finely or minutely serrate or striate, and on 

 top of head pair of rather wide set spines represent parietal at upper 

 hind orbital edge, and moderately large, strong, occi})ital pair, erect 

 and directed back. Serrae of lateral ridge or suborbital stay well 

 developed rather long, prominent, anterior flare forward, and only 

 2 others anteriorly little enlarged. Preopercular spine with anterior 

 outer ridge bearing 5 spines, graduated to large antero-basal spine, 

 which well curved upward; preopercular spine equals eye. Oper- 

 cular spines well curved, upper little in advance. Strong, keeled, 

 erect humeral spine. Lateral line with 28 + 1 spines, larger and 

 stronger posteriorly. 



D. VI — 15, I, end of spinous fin reaching base of second dorsal 

 ray, first spine 2 in head, fifth to eighth rays greatly prolonged in. 

 filaments li/4 times head; A. 17, i, seventh ray 3% in head, edge of 

 membrane notched after tip of each ; caudal 1%, slightly convex be- 



