DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF NEW FISHES 
OBTAINED IN PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT 
WATERS BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF 
FISHERIES STEAMER “ALBATROSS” 
By Henry W. Fow er 
Tue fishes described in this paper represent the groups Isospondyli, 
Iniomi, Lophobranchii, Percomorphi, Cataphracti, Chromides, Jugu- 
lares, and Plectognathi. They were discovered after detailed reports 
on the Albatross fishes in these groups were prepared.’ The explana- 
tions of the computations, sequence of characters, and other data, as 
well as diagnoses of the higher groupings (as orders, families, sub- 
families, and genera) pertaining to the new species studied, are given 
in the full reports or in three supplemental papers on the collection 
that have been issued.? 
Family ALEPOCEPHALIDAE 
Genus XENODERMICHTHYS Giinther 
AUCHENALEPOCEPS, new subgenus 
Type.—X enodermichthys funebris, new species. 
Occiput forms depression, very distinct in profile, with the advanced 
predorsal region bulging. This region of predorsal with a median 
groove extending back as far as gill opening. 
Differs from the subgenus XY enodermichthys in the above characters, 
as well as in proportions, facies, and fins. 
(abxnv, nape+ Alepocephalus.) 
1 Six volumes describing the fishes contained in the Albatross Philippine collections have 
now appeared in U. S. National Museum Bulletin 100—vol. 7 (1928), vol. 8 (1929), vol. 10 
(1930), vol. 11 (1931), vol. 12 (1933), and vol. 18 (1941). 
2 Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and 
adjacent seas. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, pp. 233-867, figs. 1-117, 19384. 
Descriptions of new fishes obtained by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer 
Albatross, chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, 
pp. 31-135, figs. 6-61, 1938. 
New fishes of the family Callionymidae, mostly Philippine, obtained by the United States 
Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 90, pp. 1-31, figs. 
1-16, 1941. 
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