NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWLER 53 



Lateral line complete, axial along side of body, with rather large 

 tubes. Scales with 5 to 7 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 24 

 or 25 rather strong, conic, in 2 or 3 series ; circuli fine. 



D. XIII, 9, I, fifth spine 2-% in total head length, third ray 21^; 

 A. Ill, 5, I, second spine 3^, second ray 2; caudal 1%, convex be- 

 hind; least depth of caudal peduncle 4^4; pectoral 1%, rays i, 8, ix; 

 ventral rays I, 5, fin 1% in total head length. 



Body pale brown, still little paler to whitish below. Two narrow, 

 dark bands across interorbital. Dark band across occiput down to 

 hind eye edge. Eye with dark brown bar forward, 3 others from its 

 lower edge obliquely down. Narrow dark brown band from ends 

 of occipital spines, crosses occiput and down side of head on front 

 of opercle. Double dark brown predorsal band to middle of opercle 

 and joined behind by broader band inclined from first 2 dorsal spines. 

 Pair of dark brown bands down from behind fifth to sixth dorsal 

 spines to below lateral line; another pair from ninth and tenth spines 

 fused below and not reaching lateral line. Two dark bands down 

 from soft dorsal well below lateral line. Pair of dark bands across 

 caudal peduncle. All dark bands described bordered narrowly with 

 still deeper brown. Fins light or whitish generally. Spinous dorsal 

 with dark oblique bar from behind each spine. Fins otherwise all 

 spotted with dark brown in contrast, as folded from dark transverse 

 bars. Iris dark gray. 



2"2//;e.—U.S.N.M. no. 98898. (6461.) D.5305. Lat. 21°54' N., long. 

 114°46' E., China Sea, vicinity of Hong Kong. In 37 fathoms. 

 October 24, 1908. Length 118 mm. 



Reniarlcs. — A handsome species, with variegated color pattern, 

 known only from the type. It is related to Hoplosebastes armatus 

 Schmidt from Nagasaki, Japan, based on a single specimen 157.5 

 mm long. It differs in details of coloration, the larger and more 

 extensive spots on the fins, scaleless maxillary, the presence of ^ anal 

 spines, and in other features. 



{■KplaTLS, saw + TtJ^L's, jaw.) 



Genus SEBASTISCUS Jordan and Starks 



SEBASTISCUS TRIACANTHUS, new species 

 I'lGUEE 20 



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

 eye 3i/^, equals snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 1^ in eye, expansion 2% in eye, length 214 in head from snout tip ; 

 teeth finely villiform, in narrow bands in jaws and on vomer and 

 palatines; interorbital 6l^, low, depressed, and with concave median 

 channel. Gill rakers 7 + 15, lanceolate, equals gill filaments or 3 

 in eye. 



