NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 79 



D. XII, 9, I, fifth spine 1% ii^ total head length, third ray 1% 

 to 2; A. Ill, 5, I, third spine 'dYs to Sy^, tliird ray 1% to 2; caudal 

 ll^ to 11/^, infraniedian rays longest; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 4% to 4% ; pectoral I34, rays 15, all simple, and membranes deeply 

 incised terminally ; ventral with spine and 5 rays, fin 1% to 2 in total 

 head length. 



Brown, obscurely clouded darker on head above and below each 

 dorsal on back. Spinous dorsal with membranes dark gray termi- 

 nally and dark blotches basally. Soft dorsal with dark gray median 

 blotch and terminally blackish gray. Pectoral with 2 dark brown 

 blotches. Other fins more or less gray black terminally. 



Type.—V.S.^M. no. 98892. D. 5310. Lat. 21°33' N., long. 116°13' 

 E., China Sea, vicinity of Hong Kong. In 100 fathoms. November 

 4, 1908. Length 44 mm. (688.) 



Paratype.—V.S.^M. no. 99009. D. 5310. Same data. Length 48 

 mm. 



(For Dr. Adolf o Cesar di Noronha, of Madeira.) 



BRACHYPTEROIS, new genus 



Type. — B rachypterois serndifer., new species. 



Known by its short dorsal sphies, shorter than soft dorsal rays. 

 Caudal long and pointed. Long pectoral reaches near caudal base. 

 Ventral half long as pectoral. Preorbital deptli half of eye. Ridges 

 of head serrulate, including mandible. Eye greatly longer than 

 snout. No flaps or cirri. 



Differs from Ehosia^ to which it is related, in its entirely different 

 physiognomy. 



{^pdxvs, short + Pferois; with reference to the short dorsal spines.) 



BRACHYPTEROIS SERRULIFER, new species 

 FiGUKE 35 



Depth 2%; head 21/3, width 2. Snout 4X3 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 3%, much greater than snout or interorbital ; maxillary reaches 

 % in eye, expansion ly^, length 2 in head from snout tip ; bands of 

 very minute, fine, villiform teeth in jaws, also small patch each side 

 of head of vomer, and palatines toothless; interorbital 7, concave, 

 with rather deep median longitudinal groove. Gill rakers 5+11, 

 with 3 above and below rudiments; length equals gill filaments or 

 1/3 of eye. 



No nasal spines; supraorbital ridge finely serrated; parietal occi- 

 pital ridge continuous, edge finely serrated; postocular ridge high, 

 its edge serrated; lower edge of preorbital with 5 spines all directed 

 down; ridge of suborbital stay serrated its whole length; preoper- 

 cular edge with 5 rather prominent denticles, upper 2 directed back 



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