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much less tlian length of its longest ray: pectorals 1.13, no silky rays at upper part; ventrals a broad luiiled 

 disk which extends to the prominent anal papilla, their length 1.40 in head; caudal slightly acuminate. 



Color in spirits light brownish, with about 7 indistinct dusky bands over back and about 6 dusky lilotches 

 along side; a dusky line on cheek marking off the scaled and unsealed portion; a dusky dot on lower posterior 

 margin of orbit, some dusky dots on nuchal region, and a dusky line on upper part of opercle; spinous dorsal 

 grayish, with some indistinct darker spots; soft dorsal gray, with some darker spots on outer portion: anal 

 and ventraLs dusky, pectorals grayish; caudal gray with broad posterior margin of white and a distinct intra- 

 marginal line of black, the lower rays slightly tipped with dusky. 



One specimen from Cavite, length 4.7.5 inches, the type, no. 92.51, Museum Stanford University. 



OPLOPOMUS Steindachner. 



222. Oplopomus vergens .Ionian i Scale, new species. 



Head 3..",0 in length without caudal; depth 4.3t); eye 4 in head; dorsal vi-i, 10; aoid 10; sciile-s 3-'; 

 cheek and opercle scaled; 2 stoutish spines at angle of preopercle: snout 3. .50 in head; interorbital equal to 

 pupil. Bod}- moderately elongate, slightly compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2.2.5 in head; anterior 

 profile of head rather blunt, lower jaw slightly the longer; mouth rather s?nall, the angle below anterior margin 

 of iris: tongue free at tip, rounded, entire; 2 rows of small sharp-pointed teeth in upper jaw, several rows 

 in lower jaw, no canines; origin of ventrals on line with dorsal, the anterior dorsal .spines not elongate: fourth 

 spine the longest, 1.7.5 in head; base of soft dorsal equal to head, its longest ray 1.60 in head; base of anal 

 1.10, its longest ray 2; pectorals 1.0.5; caudal rounded, 1.10; ventrals large, united, extending to anal papillal 



species. Ty])e. 



Color in spirits yellowish lirown, 6 dusky spots along median line of side, the sixth forming a black spot at 

 base of caudal; a row of small ocellated dark spots just below the median line: similar small ocellatcd spots 

 on upper half of Ijody arranged more or less in inegular longitudinal bands; about 7 indistinct short dusky 

 bands over back; a more or less distinct dusky area below and also in front of eye, a rather wide irregular duskv 

 area from angle of mouth to opercle; aduskj^ spot on upper base of pectorals, with a small dot on lower part 

 of ba.sc; a dusky spot at upper margin of opercle and above axil of pectorals; spinous doi-sal with 1(1 black 

 cross-lines, one at liase of fin, the other on distal third, a more prominent dusky area on posterior of fin; soft 

 dorsal with 2 or 3 irregular dusky lines: caudal with about .5 dusky bands: pectorals, ventrals, and anal 

 gray, the ventrals slightly darker, and the anal sometimes with a slight dusky wash. 



Six specimens from Cavite, length 2.75 to 3.20 inches. Type no. .53071, U. S. National Museum. Cotyjie 

 no. 92.56, Museum Stanford University. 



OXYTJRICHTHT^S Bleeker. 

 223. Oxyuriehthus cristatus (Day). 



Head 4 in length; depth 5.20; eye 4.20 in head: dorsal vi-14; anal 14; .scales about .5.5; no canine teeth; 

 head naked; ventrals imited; anterior dorsal rays longest, filiform. al)out equal to elongate middle ray of 

 (caudal, 2.20 in length without caudal : iin tentacle above eye; a black spot on u]iper part of eye, one also below 

 the eye; caudal acuminate. 



Color in spirits yellowish with some dusky liands over back and extending obliquely downi to median line 

 of side in form of about .5 dusky bars or blotches; a dark spot at base of caudal: caudal fin thickly dotted with 

 black; area above pectoral fin with numerous black dots; a short nuchal crest with black margin; caudal gray 

 with white margm; pectorals and ventrals gray. 



