FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE islands. 

 162. Scolopsis luzonia Jordan & Seale. 



sr, 



Thirteen specimens from Bacon (no. 3730 to 3733, 3403 to 3406, 3829 to 3831, Hhii and W17; length 1 to 

 ii in.), and one from Sum Fabian (no. 3332). A prominent serrated ridge on maxillary. 



rordan & Seale, Bull. Bu. Fisheries', xxvi, 190C, Cavite, Luzon. (Collected by Dr Lung: type, no 9243 

 Stanford i nh I 



163. Scolopsis monogramnius (KubJ <£ Van Ea sell , 



One specimen From Bulan (no. :i'_'77: length 5.85 in.). 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.5 in head; snout 3; interorbital equals eye; scales 5-48-11, 6 rows on 

 cheek. 



c.lor in spirits, yellowish; an indistinct dusky band almost wiiltli of eye from head to < audal 

 This species is close to S. peraonatus, from which it differs in the greater depth, narrower interorbital, 

 smaller scales, and in having li rows of scales (instead of - r >) on thr cheek. 



ogramma Kubl &Van Hasselt in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss.,v, 254 (338) Java; GUnthei I ' 

 i 358. 



onogramma, Bleeker, Atlas, vni, 11, pi. cccxxxv, 6g. 3. 



164. Scolopsis bulanensis Evermann & Seale, new species. 



Head 3.25 in length; depth 3.3; eye 2.75 in head; interorbital 3.5; snout 3.55; dorsal \. 9; anal m. 7: 

 scales 4 43 L0. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed ; depih of caudal peduncle :i in head; anterior profile of head slightly 

 vr\ above eyes; mouth rather small, jaw 'qual; maxillary 3.75 in head, its distal end not reaching to 



Fig. IS.— Scolopsis butanensii Evermann & Scale, new species. Type. 



anterior margin of orbit; mandible 2.95 in head; teeth villiform in jaws and on vomer; preorbital width 3 

 in eye, with one strong spine above and 2 smaller ones below, the large one reaching slightly pasi middle ol 

 eye; gillrakers consisting of blunt knobs, about 7 on lower arch: posterior margin of preopercle denticulate; 

 opercle with a single spine at ils posterior margin: body fully scaled, 5 scries on cheek; scales on top i head 

 minute, those on belly larger; vertical fins unsealed, hut fitting into scaly sheath: origin of dorsal slightly 



posterior t igin of pectoral, longest spine 2.75 in head, longest ray 2.75; origin of anal nearer origin of 



ventrals than to base of caudal, its longest raj '2.7 in head, the second anal -pine long, si and strongest . 2.5 in 

 head, base of anal 3.6 in base of dorsal; ventrals 1.3 in head, their tip falling far short ol anal; pectoral 1.35 

 in head, scarcely reaching tip of ventrals; caudal forked. 



Col i — | > i i i t — . dull yellowish brown; an indistinct dusky longitudinal line on side; short oblique black 



lines between pectoral fin and lateral line: an oblong white l.loteh xtending forward and downv/ai from 

 posterior axil ol dorsal to near middle ol bod) b black spot at axil ol pectoral, another on posterior portion 

 ol opercle just in front of pectoral; fins unmarked. 



