NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 55 
A species resembling Xenodermichthys squamilaterus Alcock * but 
differing from that species in proportions, smaller head, deeper body, 
smaller vertical fins, smaller eye, and shorter maxillary. 
(funebris, funereal, with reference to its black color.) 
Genus LEPTODERMA Vaillant 
LEPTODERMA RETROPINNA, new species 
FIGURE 5 
Depth 1074; head 444, width 2%». Snout 31% in head, convex, front 
end forms little below middle of eye; eye 314, subequal with snout, 
greatly exceeds bony interorbital; orbit very large, diameter 224 in 
Ficure 5.—Leptoderma retropinna, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99512). 
head; maxillary reaches front edge of orbit, length 4 in head; mouth 
small, but little inclined from horizontal, upper jaw longer and lower 
included; bony interorbital width 2 in eye, level or little depressed. 
Gill opening small, inferior. 
Body scaleless. Lateral line little distinct, axial along side of body. 
D. 54, fin origin postmedian in fish, fourteenth ray 41% in head; 
A. 75, fin origin at first 24 in combined head and body without caudal, 
fifteenth ray 3149 in head, and like dorsal confluent with caudal; cau- 
dal 214, fin forked; caudal peduncle very narrowly constricted; pec- 
toral 224, rays 10; ventral rays 1, 5, fin 314 in head. 
Color in alcohol largely blackish, with black line along base of 
dorsal and another along anal base. Fins blackish. 
Greatly like Leptoderma macrops Vaillant * and Leptoderma affinis 
*Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 2, p. 148, 1898 (type locality: Off the Andamans) ; 
Iilustrations of the zoology of H. M. Indian Marine surveying steamer Investigator, pt. 1, 
Fishes, pl. 25, fig. 4, 1899 (type). 
*Compt. Rend. Acad, Sci. Paris, vol. 103, p. 1239, 1886 (type locality : No locality given, 
Talisman dredgings).—Fow.Ler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 193, fig. 82, 
1936 (compiled). 
