NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 



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interorbital 3, convexly elevated, with median ridge extending to 

 dorsal. Gill rakers 4 + 13, lanceolate, equal gill filaments, which 1% 

 in eye. 



Scales 52 + 36 in lateral line, straight section IVs in low arch; 20 

 above arch to soft dorsal orgin, 40 below. Breast and chest naked to 

 pectoral base and behind ventral bases. Fins not scaly, only scaly 

 sheaths at bases of soft dorsal and anal. Caudal base scaly. Very 

 few scales on cheek, only few close to infraorbitals and about post- 

 ocular. Scute, depth 3% in eye. 



D. VIII-I, 24, I, second spine 614 in total head, first branched 

 ray 2i/io ; A. II-I, 20, i, first branched ray 21/2 ; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 61/2; caudal II/5?, forked; ventral 2%, reaches 1% to anal; 

 pectoral 2% in fish without caudal, rays 11, 21, reaches 1 

 section of lateral line. 



in straight 



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Figure 17. — Vraspis pectoralis, new species. Type. 



Gray above, silvery white below. Iris pale. Mouth inside black, 

 roof and tongue white. Fins brownish. 



Type.—V.S.^M. no. 98820. (6328.) Manila Market, Philip- 

 pine Islands. July 11, 1908. Length 215 mm. 



Distinguished chiefly by the long pectorals. 



{pectoralis, with reference to its pectorals.) 



Family CIRRHITIDAE 



ANALYSIS OF GENERA 



ai, CiRRHiTiNAE. Head small, jaws not greatly extended in front. 

 bK Upper profile with deep notch, or incurved over eye; pre- 

 opercle sharply serrate. 



c'. Soft dorsal rays 12 or 13 Cirrhitichthys 



c2. Soft dorsal rays 16 or 17 Csrprinocirrhitea 



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