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268. Hypomacrus albaiensis Evermann & Seale, new species. 



Head 2.25 in length without caudal; depth 3.25; eye 3.75 in head: snout 3.75; interorbital 2 in snout 

 dorsal xm, 9 (the cotype has the soft dorsal deformed, with onlyS rays); anal in, 5; scales 5-26-13, about 16 



tubules in lateral line. 



Body moderately compressed, the head rather elongate, the lower jaw proji ding, depth of caudal peduncle 



4.1 in head; maxillary 2 in head, the distal end under the posterior margin of pupil, its distal width 1.5 in eye; 

 mandible 1.75 in head: villiforrn teeth on jaws and vomer, none on palatines: gillrakcrs very small. 8 on lower 

 limb of first arch: spines of head as follows: opercular 2; preopercular 2, the upper the larger, with a small 

 superimposed spine on its base ; bony stay across cheek with 2 spines, -I above eye, 5 on each side of nuchal 

 region: a distinct fringed orbital tentacle equal in length to pupil; a short dermal flap at base of each nuchal 

 spine: a branched flap at nostril, and a rather long preorbital flap hanging over maxillary. 



Body entirely sealed, head scaled; origin of dorsal above axil of pectoral, longest spine 3.2 in head: 

 origin of anal under origin of soft dorsal, its longest ray 2 in head, the second anal spine the longest and strongest . 

 2.3 in head; origin of vent nils about midway between tip of upper jaw and origin of anal, their length 1.S5 in 

 head, their tips falling far short of anal: pectoral peculiar, the 9 upper rays short, about 2 in head, their tips 

 scarcely extending past tips of ventrals: the lower part of tin elongate, composed of 7 simple rays, the longest 

 1.19 in head, their tips beyond line with origin of anal fin: caudal rounded. 1.65 in bead. 



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Fig. 20. — Hypomacrus albaiensis Evermann & Seale, ni Pyp< 



Color in spirits, mottled brownish, a large yellowish area occupying entin upper two-thirds of opercle, 

 extending to eye anteriorly, and posteriorly extending down and covering base of pectoral; a round black 

 or> null] spot posterior of and between the preopercular spines: about 5 indistinct rather narrow dark bands 

 over hack: spinous dorsal with irregular dusky markings, soft dorsal with dark base and tip, the mid portion 

 whitish: anal with irregular dark markings, the most distinctive being a black spot on posterior axil of fin; 

 ventrals shaded with dusky dots posteriorly : pectoral with brown dots on the short rays, the elongate rays 

 white with a few scattered brown dots; caudal dusky at tip, a slight dusky wash on base of rays. 



Type, no. 55902, U. S. National Museum, original no.3S66 (10,771), 2.5 inches long, from Bacon. Sorsogon, 

 P. I., collected by Mr. Charles .1. Pierson. Cotype. no. 20,006, Stanford University, a specimen 2.25 inches 

 long, also from Bacon. 



269. Sebastopsis scabra (Ramsay & Ogilby). 



( Ine specimen from Bacon (no. 4004: length 2.75 in.). 



S( baati S Si nbi r Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. W., X. 1885, 577. Shark Reef, Australia. 

 S< bastopsis scabra, Jordan & Seale. Proc. U. S. Nat . Mas , xxvui. 1905 (Inly 3), 7!il (Negros). 



270. Sebastopistes tristis (Ivlunzinger). 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 3612 to 3614; length 4 to 4.5 in.). This species is close to S. nivifer 

 Jordan & Seale, described from Negros. P. I., differing in the orbital spines, the dermal flaps, and the color. 



ScoTpzim trixtis EUunzLoger, Synop. Fische ties Rothen Merrs. Verb.. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, xx. 1S70. 802. Red Sea. 

 ScoTpsenabakeri Seale, Fishes of Guam, in Occ. Papers Bishop Mus., vol. i. no. J. 1901, 120, Guam. 



