NO. 1924. yEW PHILTPPiyfJ AXACAyTHIXE FISHES— RADCLIPFE. 117 



short, deep, compressed; eye 6.10 in head, 1.74 in snout, 1.23 in 

 interorbital, small, subcircular; interorbital 4.94, convex; snout 3.50, 

 rather blunt, projecting but little beyond mouth, terminal tubercles 

 and suborbital ridge inconspicuous; mouth relatively large; lips 

 fleshy; maxillary 3.23, barely reaching vertical to anterior margin of 

 pupil; teeth long, slender, incurved, outer row of premaxillary teeth 

 but little enlarged; scales large, 9 in a series from origin of dorsal to 

 and including lateral line, 8 from last dorsal ray, exposed portion of 

 each scale armed \vith rather weak recumbent spinules arranged in 

 about 13 to IS parallel series; lateral line conspicuous, not strongly 

 arched anteriorly. 



Tip of snout to origin of dorsal 4.22 in total length; first dorsal spine 

 small, second long, whip-like, 2.30 in total length, traces of a few 

 smaU spinules on anterior margin near base; interdorsal space about 

 0.18 length of head, less than base of first dorsal; anterior rays of 

 second dorsal small, rather widely separated, not connected by mem- 

 brane; rays posteriorly better developed; origin of anal behind origin 

 of second dorsal, its distance from tip of snout 2.78 in total length, 

 rays weU developed; outer ventral ray 1.79 in head, not greatly pro- 

 duced, its tip not reaching origin of anal, base under origin of first 

 dorsal; pectoral 1.42, its base a little in advance of vertical from origin 

 of first dorsal. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color, sepia, scales with a grayish cast; 

 fins dark seal-brown. 



Type.— Cht. No. 72933, U.S.N.M., 43 cm. in length, taken with a 

 beam trawl at station 5470 (lat. 13° 37' 30" N.; long. 123° 41' 9" 

 E.), near Atulayan Island, east coast of Luzon, at a depth of 560 

 fathoms, on a bottom of mud. 



In addition to the type, the collection contains 4 examples, 1 1 .4 to 

 18.3 cm. m length, from station 5325, off northern Luzon. From our 

 examples of M. macrolophus Alcock, which it closely resembles, it 

 differs in the much smaller size of the eye and in the number of ventral 

 rays, 7 in microps, 8 in macrolophus; these characters are constant. 



MACROURUS DUBIUS Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 25, fig. 3. 



Dorsal ii,9-73; anal 90; ventrals 8; pectorals 2L 



Head 4.48 in total length, long, pointed, slightly depressed dorsally, 

 its breadth 1.97 in its length, slightly greater than depth at middle 

 of eye; bones firm, suborbital ridge distinct, the slope from ridge to 

 mouth scarcely steeper than from ridge to eye, terminal tubercles on* 

 snout rather prominent; body slender, not strongly compressed, 

 greatest depth at origin of doreal 6.04 in total length, vent close to 

 origin of anal; eye 5.30 in head, 1.50 m snout, 1.10 in interorbital, 

 small, subcircular; interorbital 4.75, flat; rest of upper profile of head 



