NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 67 



wide set opercular spines, lower little posterior; strong, oblique 

 humeral spine. 



Scales 26 + 2 in lateral line; 4 above, 9 below, 13 predorsal forward 

 to middle of eye, of which 5 extend forward to occiput; 2 postocular 

 to preopercle ridge. Scales small on chest, breast, belly, prepectoral 

 region and caudal base. Cirri at antero-supraorbital spine, first 

 postero-supraorbital, behind each parietal, posterior preorbital and 

 second preopercular. Lateral line little high at first, axial, tubes 

 small, simple, and inconspicuous. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating 

 striae; 7 or 8 close set short apical denticles; circuli fine, concentric, 

 many rings extended apically. 



D.^ XII, 9, I, third spine 22/3 in total head length, third ray 234 ? ; 

 A. Ill, 5, second spine 21/5, third ray 2; caudal ly^, rounded behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral fi/o, i"'iys i, 6, vm; ventral 

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



Body brown, head and fins paler to whitish. Iris gray. Black 

 blotch large as eye on membrane of spinous dorsal from fifth to tenth 



spines. 



Type.—V.S.^M. no. 9889C. D. 5518. Point Tagolo Light, S. 

 64° W., 8.7 miles (lat. 8°48' N., long. 123^31' E.), northern Mindanao 

 and vicinity. In 200 fathoms. August 9, 1909. Length 69 mm. 



Also paratype. Same data. Length 68 mm. 



i?emar7i-6-.— Characterized by its heavy armature of the head with 

 cirri, absence of palatine teeth, lowest 8 pectoral rays simple, short 

 gill rakers and the large conspicuous black blotch on the spinous 

 dorsal. 



{(jTljfia, spot, with reference to the spinous dorsal.) 



SCORPAENOPSELLA, new genus 



7)/pe. — ScorpaenopseJla armata^ new species. 



Body elongately ellipsoid or greatest depth midway in the stand- 

 ard length, well compressed. Head large, nearly half of standard 

 length, well compressed. Snout rather obtusely conic. Eye large, 

 impinging on upper profile, well advanced in head. Mouth large, 

 superiorly terminal, or with lower jaw^ protruded and furnished 

 with low, blunt or rounded symphyseal knob. Maxillary reaches 

 below eye, expanded behind. Teeth small, pointed, in 4 or 5 irregu- 

 lar rows above; fewer rows below and with outer enlarged row, 

 which alone extends posteriorly in jaws. Interorbital deeply con- 

 cave. Gill opening very large, membrane forming narrow fold 

 across isthmus. Head with but few scales behind eye and on opercle. 

 Scales on body rather small. Lateral line complete, conspicuous. 

 No scales on chest, prepectoral or front of belly. Spinous dorsal 



