NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES — FOWLER 



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Scales on middle of sides very narrowly imbricated, with median 

 horizontal keel. Interorbital, snout, and mandible scaleless. Fins 

 not scaly. 



D. Ill, 26, fin height anteriorly 1% in total head ; A. 27, fin height 

 1% ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4; pectoral 1, rays i, 16; ventral I, 

 5, fin 1% in total head. 



Brown on back, sides and below with dull brassy tint. Iris brown- 

 ish. Fins all more or less brownish and dorsals with a longitudinal 

 subbasal pale though distinctly evenly defined pale or light band its 

 whole extent. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. no. 98817. D. 5134. Balukbaluk Island (N.) 

 S. 59° W., 6.25 miles (lat. 6°44'45" N., long. 121°48' E.), Sulu Archi- 

 pelago, near Basilan Island, Philippines. February 7, 1908. In 25 

 fathoms. Length 32 mm. 



Eemarks. — Known only from the above described young specimen, 

 which differs from Branui raii (Bloch) in the presence of the pale 

 subbasal longitudinal band on the dorsals. Liitken figures slightly 

 larger and smaller specimens (Spolia Atlantica, 1880, pi. 4, figs. 1, 2), 

 though they have their fins uniformly colored. My drawing does 

 not show the lower scales of the tail quite so contrasted in their 

 convergence as seen on the type specimen. 



(Xey/coj, white + Tat''ia, ribbon; with reference to the white band 

 on the dorsal fin.) 



H.W.F.del. 



Figure 16. — Benthodesmus henjamini, new species. Type. 



Family LEPIDOPIDAE 

 Genus BENTHODESMUS Goode and Bean 



BENTHODESMUS BENJAMINI, new species 



Figure 16 



Depth 21 to 212/3 ; head 62/3 to 7%, width 51/3 to 6. Snout 21/6 to 

 2V5 in head from snout tip ; eye 6% to 8%, 3 to 4 in snout, f^ in inter- 

 orbital in young to greater than interorbital with age; maxillary 



