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pressed, flaplike, terminally spinescent, equal 24 of gill filaments, which 
are half of eye. ie 
Scales 41 in lateral line to caudal base; 3 above to first dorsal origin, 
2 above to second dorsal origin; 15 predorsal scales; four rows of 
large scales over cheek to preopercle ridge, besides row of small ones 
along suborbital edge and three rows on preopercle flange. Basal 
half of caudal scaly, also pectoral base scaly. 
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Ficure 10.—Pentapodus lineoscapularis, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 108465). 
D. X, 9, 1, first spine 4 in head, fourth spine 214, third ray 1,9; A. 
III, 6, 1, third spine 314, first ray 2; caudal 1, emarginate behind; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 224; pectoral 114, rays 15; ventral rays 
I, 5, fin 11% in head. 
Color in alcohol with back pale olive-brown and lower surfaces 
uniformly pale. Whitish longitudinal band from side of snout, in- 
cluding lower fourth of eye, back over pectoral origin and base of 
upper caudal lobe. 
A species apparently unique in its coloration as a white band 
extends from the side of the preorbital, including the lower edge of 
the eye, and then back along the middle of the side to the caudal 
peduncle. Also a gray white bar or line from the beginning of the 
lateral line and vertically above the origin of the pectoral, which 
has a blackish spot. 
T'ype.—U.S.N.M. No. 108465. Tloflo, Panay Island. May 9, 1929. 
Lt. H. C. Kellers. Length 135 mm. 
(Zinea, line+ scapula, scapula. ) 
