NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 67 
truding in front; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, also present on 
palatines; bony interorbital width 644 in head measured from snout 
tip, concave. Gill rakers 5+10, robust, short, clavate, 24 long as gill 
filaments, which about equal pupil. 
Pair of small nasal spines; short and low antero-supraorbital 
spine up and backward, and 2 broad low and rather large postero- 
supraorbitals each side, closely set, with finely serrated edges all 
more or less directed back; pair of similar strong nuchal spines close 
behind last postero-supraorbital; parietal and occipital spines form 
strong keel, slightly divergent backward with rather deeply concave 
A : LL 
; YY SE 
zi PARRA = 
Figure 12.—Scorpaena taeniophrys, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99522). 
median depression; row of three broad, short and rather large pre- 
orbital spines, posterior still little larger and directed down; sub- 
orbital stay with two very small spines; five spines along hind edge 
of preopercle, uppermost extending back from hind edge of subor- 
bital stay; two very small little-developed postocular spines; two 
widely divergent opercular spines; humeral spine broad, obtuse. 
Scales 37+2 in lateral line; 13 developed tubes form lateral line 
followed by 3 pores and last pore on caudal base; 4 scales above 
lateral line to second dorsal origin, 10 below to anal origin. Head, 
predorsal, and prepectoral region naked. Chest and breast with small 
scales. On fins only caudal base scaly. Lateral line complete, slopes 
obliquely down to caudal peduncle. Long supraorbital flap little 
longer than eye and no other flaps on head or body. 
