NO. 1924. yEW PHILIPPINE ANACANTIIINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 119 



dorsal 5.58 in total length; vent close to origin of anal; eye 4.18 in 

 head, 1.16 in snout, large; interorbital 3.60, equal to length of snout, 

 broad, flat, depressed; snout blunt, overhanging mouth for a dis- 

 tance about 0.33 diameter of eye; mouth large, maxillary 3, barely 

 reachmg vertical to middle of eye; teeth long, slender, cardiform, 

 those in outer row of upper jaw slightly enlarged; scales large, regu- 

 lar, somewhat deciduous, very rough, 6 in a series from second dorsal 

 spine to and includmg lateral line, 5 from last dorsal ray; exposed 

 portion of each scale armed with about 13 subparallel rows of rather 

 strong spmules, those in median row slightly larger than the others; 

 spinules of scales of head more nearly erect, the rows on some of the 

 scales somewhat divergent; lateral line distinct, with a long, low arch 

 anteriorly. 



Tip of snout to origin of dorsal 4.05 in total length, fu-st dorsal 

 spine 0.28 as long as eye, second longer than head, 4.35 in total 

 length, armed with rather close-set spinules ; interdorsal space nearly 

 equal to diameter of eye, 0.2 length of head; ventrals lost, pectorals 

 broken. 



Color in alcohol: Hair brown; fins dusky black; scattered black 

 spots on under side of snout and sides of head. 



Type.— Cat. No. 72935, U.S.N.M., 41.3 cm. in length, taken with 

 a beam trawl at station 5632 flat. 1° 00' 00" S.; long. 127° 50' 00" 

 E.), southeast of Bachian Island, Dutch East Indies, at a depth of 

 845 fathoms. 



MACROURUS PROXIMUS Smith and Radcli£fe, new species. 

 Plate 26, fig. 2. 



Dorsal 11,9-103; anal 102; ventrals 9; pectorals 19. 



Head 5.18 in total length, 1.56 in distance from tip of snout to anal 

 fin, low, tapering, pointed, subquadrangular in transverse section, 

 without conspicuous ridges on dorsal surface, suborbital ridge promi- 

 nent; trunk short, slender, greatest depth at origin of dorsal 6.09 in 

 total length; vent nearer base of ventrals than origin of anal; tail 

 long, slender, compressed; eye 3.53 in head, subcircular; interorbital 

 5.12, slightly convex, narrower than eye; snout 3.42, depressed, 

 pointed, without conspicuous tubercles at tip, projecting beyond 

 mouth ; region on either side of tip of snout with a slight, semicircular, 

 scaleless groove similar to but not so well developed as in species of 

 Matseoce2)halus, portion of snout lying anterior to this groove appar- 

 ently capable of slight distension; nostrils close to eye, surrounded 

 by a narrow scaleless area; mouth of moderate size, about as broad 

 as long; maxillary 3, reaching vertical from posterior margin of pupil; 

 teeth small, slender, pointed, outer series in upper jaw very slightly 

 enlarged; barbel small, slender, 0.75 diameter of eye; scales small, 9 

 in a transverse series from origin of dorsal to and includins; lateral 



