NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 43 



D. 16 to 18, on 1 trunk and 3 caudal rings, fin height 1% to 2 

 in total head ; A. minute ; caudal 4i/^ ; pectoral 4i/^ to 5, rays 10. 



Male largely uniform brown, scarcely paler below. Above median 

 lateral keel of trunk 3 blackish equidistant blotches. Brood pouch 

 neutral black. Fins all brownish. 



Female light brown, lower surface little paler, though more or less 

 mottled. Eleven blackish-brown transverse bars on back, each fol- 

 lowed by small, gray-white, rounded, well-contrasted spot. Three 

 dark-brown bars across lower side of snout, one obliquely back from 

 lower eye edge and another broadly from lower postocular. Dark 

 brown band from upper postocular widens and extends ill defined 

 toward occiput. Iris dark gray. At junction of each ring on upper 

 and lower body edges dark brown spot. Fins pale, caudal vrith dark 

 transverse bar. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. no. 94082. Canimo Island near Daet Point, 

 Luzon, Philippine Islands. June 15, 1909. Length 56 mm. 



Also a series of paratypes from the Philippines and the East 

 Indies. 



Bemarks. — East Indies, Philippines. This species is characterized 

 by its short opercular keel only developed anteriorly, few dorsal rays, 

 and its variegated coloration. It resembles Ilalicampus hoilomatodon 

 (Bieeker) but is without the spines and strongly keeled rough rings 

 of that species. 



(ixLKpos, small -ffcoTos, back-fTTxepov, fin.) 



Genus ICHTHYOCAMPUS Kaup 



ICHTHYOCAMPUS PHILIPPINUS, new species 



Depth 171^ ; head 7, w^idth 31/-^. Snout 2I/3 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 51/5, 2i/} in snout, greatly exceeds interorbital ; low median keel on 

 snout above to interorbital; occipital-nuchal keel short, low, not on 

 first trunk ring ; narrow interorbital half of eye, shallowly concave ; 

 opercle with low short basal keel anteriorly, with many fine radiating 

 striae. 



Kings 17+32; with very fine, minute transverse striae; keels low, 

 smooth. Upper trunk and caudal keels continuous; median lateral 

 trunk keel not extended on first caudal keel ; lower trunk and caudal 

 keels continuous; median ventral trunk keel distinct to vent. 



D. 17, on 1 trunk and 4 caudal rings, base not elevated, height 1% 

 in eye; A. ll^ in eye; caudal 4I/2 in head; pectoral 5%, rays 12?. 



Brown, more or less uniform, head little paler. Iris slate. Fins 

 all pale. 



