FISHES OF THE ISLANDS OF LUZON AND PANAY. 7 



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1.6(3 in e3-e; teeth slender, even, sharp, arrangetl in shigle series; no canines; upper jaw wider than lower and 

 projecting around it; snout sharp, about 5.5 in head; anterior nostril with a moderate tube; gill openings 

 small, placed rather low. Pectorals long, 1.6 in head; insertion of dorsal close behind base of pectoral. Dorsal 

 fin very low, not much higher than eye. Anal very low; tip of tail without fin. Color light brown, darkened 

 above by minute dots, which become sparse below; no distinct spots or bars; fins plain yellowish. 



A single specimen, 7.5 inches long, was taken by Dr. Lung at Cavite. It is numbered 9984 in Stanford 

 University. 



The species is close to JenkirmeUa macgrerjori {Microdonophis macgregori Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission XXII, 1902, p. 422) described by Jenkins from Maui, Hawaii. It difl'ers from that species m the more 

 posterior insertion of the dorsal, in the lower dorsal, and much longer pectoral. The coloration is much the 

 same, but the tail is much longer in the Philippine species, Jenkinsiella nectiira. The fringe of barbels, as in 

 the genus Cirrhimuriena, well separates JenkinsiMa from Microdonophis. 



Family MORINGUID^. 

 24. Moringua lumbricoidea Richardson. 

 One specimen, 6.5 inches in length, from Cavite. 



Family MUR.fMD.JJ. 

 GYMNOTHOKAX Bloch. 

 25. Gynmothorax philippinus Jordan & Scale, new spoeie.s. 



Fig. i.^Gymnnthorax philippinr.s .Inrdan A Seale. new -spccu 



T.vpe. 



Head 3.45 in trunk; length of head and trunk greater than length of tail by a distance equal to length 

 of snout; eye rather large, 1.90 in snout; length of mouth to angle 2.40 in head; a single row of sharp-pointed 

 teeth in lower jaw; teeth in upper jaw in a single row, reinforced by 3 or 4 additional teeth in palatine series; 

 three large f ang-hke vomerine teeth in front , with a row of smaller ones extending back ; anterior teeth large 

 canines; fins of moderate height. 



Color in spirits, ever3nvhere powdered with yellow and brown, lighter on belly and chin, darker on posterior 

 two-thirds of body, which shows rather wide indistinct darker bands; a distinct black blotdi at angle of 

 mouth, which unites with a black band around chin; a second dusky blotch midway between angle of mouth 

 and gill opening; gill openings uncolored; fins dark, without white margins. 



One fine specimen, the type, no. 9215, Museum Stanford University, 23 inches long. 



