FISHES OF THE PHHjIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 181 



14793. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length 188 mm. 



4644. Tambun Sigambul, Tonquil Island. September 14, 1909. Length 200 mm. 



4977. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21. 1908. Length 214 mm. 



6433. Tilig. July 14, 1908. Length 233 mm. 



13124. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 133 mm. 



19800. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length 140 mm. 



MACOLOR MACULARIS, new species 



Depth 21/5 to 2% ; head 23/5 to 22/3, width 2 to 21/8- Snout 21/2 

 to 3% in head from snout tip ; eye 3% to 5i/4, 1% to 2 in snout, ly^ 

 to 2% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches 14 to % in eye, length 

 214 to 214 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, in 7 or 8 irregular 

 little defined rows in jaws, though all more or less concealed in 

 coriaceous lips; outermost row of teeth in each jaw little larger than 

 any of others and with age directed outward, though basally also 

 largely concealed by thick lips; small patch of fine teeth on vomer 

 and narrow band on each palatine ; interorbital 2% to 2%, convex ; 

 preopercle with obsolete and minute serrae, deep narrowly triangular 

 gash above corner at hind edge. Gill rakers 31 to 40 + 63 to 75, very 

 fine, compressed, elongate, IV^ in snout; gill filaments I/2 of gill 

 rakers. 



Scales 52 or 53 along above lateral line to caudal base and 13? 

 more on latter ; tubular scales 47 or 48 in lateral line to caudal base ; 

 9 or 10 scales above lateral line, 20 or 21 below, 22 to 24 predorsal 

 forward to occiput, 7 or 8 rows across cheek. Scales with 11 to 21 

 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 92 to 135 weak obsolete points, 

 with 6 to 14 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. X, 11, 1 to 13, 1, fourth spine 2% to 3 in total head length, sev- 

 enth ray 1% to 1% ; A. Ill, 10, i, third spine 2% to 31/5, fifth ray 

 1% to 11/^; caudal IV5 to 1%, moderately emarginate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 23/5 to 2% ; ventral 1% to 13^ ; pectoral 2% to 2% 

 in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Back nearly burnt umber till level with eye, below paler or 

 whitish. Each scale on back with pale gray white basal spot. 

 Head paler or with drab shades on preorbital, cheek, and opercles, 

 lower surfaces all dull brownish, everywhere variably small ocelli, 

 sometimes as short bars or arcs, but always with slightly darker 

 brown border; on front take form of transverse bluish lines, but no 

 markings on under surface of head. Iris yellowish brown. Back 

 with 3 or 4 series of underlaid pale ovoid spots. Spinous dorsal 

 dusky, mottled with ill defined grayish basal spots. Soft dorsal 

 dusky, with uniformly small grayish spots. Anal like soft dorsal. 

 Caudal dusky, marked with gray spots. Paired fins brownish, 

 dusky terminally. Small examples with paler longitudinal band, ill 

 defined, reflected on caudal medially. 



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