NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWT^ER 69 



preoperciilar spines, upper largest, v.ith small spine before its base 

 externally ; 2 wide set opercular spines, opposite, lower nearly reach- 

 ing gill opening; strong humeral spine inclined back and upward. 



Scales 37 f 3? close above and along lateral line; tubular scales 

 23+1? in lateral line; 6 scales above, 14 below; 3 post ocular; 9 pre- 

 dorsal to occipital spines. Head largely naked, except patch of few 

 postocular scales and small area on upper part of opercles. Chest, 

 breast, prepectoral region, front of abdomen and pectoral bases 

 naked. Lateral line high, slopes along side of body axialiy; tubes 

 large, simple, well exposed. Scales with 8 or 9 basal radiating 

 striae ; apical denticles 17 to 20, slender, rather long, uniform ; circuli 

 fine. Flap long as pupil each side of snout tip; large fringed flap 

 from front nostril; small filament from first postero-supraorbital 

 spine ; large flap from second preorbital spine. 



D. XII, 9, I, third spine 31/10 in total head length, third ray 2^5 ; 

 A. Ill, 5, 1, second spine 314, first ray 21/0 ; caudal 1%, convex behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral l^io, rays n, 7, xi; venlral 

 rays I, 5, fin 2 in total head length. 



Light brown, paler to whitish below. Obscure darker brown bar 

 across predorsal and 5 others from bases of dorsals on back, first at 

 fifth dorsal spine, second at seventh, third at eleventh, fourth at third 

 dorsal ray, fifth at seventh. Dark bar from lower eye edge down on. 

 cheek. Spinous dorsal with dark brown terminally on membranes as 

 well as basally. Soft dorsal with obscure brown blotches. Several 

 gray spots on pale or whitish anal. Caudal whitish, with 3 or 4 

 very indistinct darker transverse bars. Pectoral brown, with 4 dark 

 bare transversely, outer 2 wider. Ventral whitish, little brownish 

 terminally. 



Type.—U.S.^M. no. 98893. (2098.) D. 5117. Sombrero Island, 

 S. 17° E., 10.8 miles (lat. 13°52'22'' N., long. 120°46'22" E.), Balayan 

 Bay and Verde Island Passage. In 118 fathoms. January 21, 1908. 

 Length 88 mm. 



{armata, armed, with i-eference to the spines on the head.) 



PHENACOSCORPIUS, new genus 



Type. — Phen^coscorpius megalops., new species. 

 Body compressed, elongately ovoid, back but little elevated. Head 

 large, compressed. Snout short, obtuse, less than eye. Eye large, 

 nearly in front half of head, meets upper profile. Mouth large, 

 closed jaws nearly even. Maxillary reaches below eye, expanded 

 behind. Teeth in villiform bands in jaws, on vomer, none on 

 palatines. Interorbital narroM% concave. Gill opening wide, mem- 

 branes scarcely united, free from isthmus. Gill rakers lanceolate. 

 Pseudobranchiae well developed. Spines of head strongly developed. 



