NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWLER 65 



orbital stay, preopercular spines, humeral spine, and lateral line with 

 skinny flaps or filaments. 



D. XI, I, 9, third spine 2% in total head length, fourth ray 21/8; 

 A. Ill, 5, 1, second spine 'dV^, second ray 21/4; caudal 1%, convex be- 

 hind; least depth of caudal peduncle 4%; pectoral !■%, rays i, 7, xi; 

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



Light brownish generally, body clouded or shaded more brownish 

 above, under surfaces paler to whitish. Iris gray-brown. Fins all 

 pale brown. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. no. 98SS4. (3521.) D. 5392. Tubig Point, N. 

 49° E., 5 miles (lat. 12°12'35" N., long. 124°2'48" E.), between Samar 

 and Masbate. In 135 fathoms. March 13, 1909. Length 202 mm. 



(17^11, half+XeTTiSwToj, scaled.) 



Genus SCORPAENOPSIS Heckel 



SCORPAENOPSIS COTTICEPS, new species 

 FiGTRE 27 



Depth 2%; head 2, width 2. Snout 3 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 37/8 in head from snout tip, l^V iii snout, greater than inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion II/3, length ly% in 

 head from snout tip; teetli fine, villiform, minute, in bands in jaws 

 and on vomer, none on palatines; interorbital 5%, deeply convex; 

 deep bean-shaped pit or depression on occiput. Gill rakers 4 + 10, low 

 tubercles, I/2 of gill filaments, which 2 in eye. 



Pair of slender nuchal spines; pair of small antero-supraorbital 

 spines, and 2 pairs of broad postero-supraorbital spines, pair of small 

 tympanies, pair of broad parietals, and pair of broad occipitals; 2' 

 postoculars each side, hind one larger; temporal spine moderate; 

 suprascapular spine Ioav; 2 widely diverging preorbital spines each 

 side, front one directed forward and posterior directed backward; 

 suborbital stay with 4 low spines ; 4 preopercular spines, upper long- 

 est and with basal auxiliary: 2 divergent opercular spines; humeral 

 spine well developed. 



Scales 26 + 3 along, and close above, in lateral line; pores 20+ in 

 lateral line; 5 scales above, 11 below, 6 predorsal. Opercle with few 

 small scales. Small scales on breast, chest, and prepectoral region- 

 Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae; 10+10 uniform low, weak,, 

 apical denticles; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 10, fourth spine 2-% in total head length, first ray 2%; 

 A. Ill, 5, second spine 3, second ray 2l^; caudal fi/^, convex be- 

 hind; least depth of caudal peduncle 5i/^; pectoral 1%, rays 14, all 

 simple ; ventral rays I. 5. fin 1% in total head. 



