NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 



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preoperculcU- spines 4. Gill rakers 3 + 7, short weak points, 1/3 of gill 

 filaments, which i/^ of eye. 



Body covered with minute, close set, firmly adherent non-imbricate 

 scales. Lateral line high, axial, incomplete on caudal peduncle, of 

 18 or 19 rather long, simple tubes. 



D. Ill, X, 8 insertion of first spinous dorsal over hind eye edge, 

 length l^ in space to end of second depressed spine, which 1% in 

 total head, third ray ly^; A. Ill, 5, third spine 2%, third ray V/g; 

 caudal 1%, rounded behind; depth of caudal peduncle 31/2; pectoral 

 1, rays I. 11; ventral rays I, ."), fin 1% in total head length. 



H.W.F.del. 



Figure 39. — Prosopodasys cypho, new species. Type. 



Brown, slightly paler on head and belly below. Head with broad, 

 whitish frontal band, one down from front of eye over maxillary 

 expansion, another from hind eye edge over cheek and vertical limb 

 of preopercle. White bar at pectoral base. Dorsals dark brown. 

 Second dor'^al with wliitish longitudinal streak subbasal, above which 

 on middle of fin from fifrh to ninth spines broad blackish brow^i 

 blotch. Soft dorsal with darker brown transverse vraved lines or 

 bars. On anal 3 or 4 broad, slightly darker transverse bands. Cau- 

 dal with 2 brown bands crosswise, fin with posterior broader dark 

 basal bar and 4 terminal waved dark transverse lines of bands inter- 

 vening pale areas whitish. Paired fins blackish brown. 



Type.—U.S.^M. no. 98902. (19707.) Davao, Mindanao. May 

 36, 1908. Length 45 mm. 



RemarJ^s. — Distinguished by its elevated back, coloration, and pro- 

 portions. It differs from Prosopodasys trachinoides as figured by 



