NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 69 
PARAMINOUS QUINCARINATUS, new species 
FIGURE 13 
Depth 3; head 214, width 1144. Snout broad, depressed forward 
with front snout end forming well below level of eye or orbit, length 
to eye (in profile) 27% in head measured from snout tip; eye 5, 1% in 
snout, 134 in interorbital, close to but not entering upper profile of 
head; orbit 34% in head measured from upper Jaw tip; maxillary 
reaches halfway below eye, expansion equals eye, length 224 in head 
measured from snout tip; mouth large, broad, little inclined from 
horizontal, lower jaw slightly protruding in front; teeth in villiform 
bands in Jaws, band above much broader; similar band transversely 
Figure’ 13.—Paraminous quincarinatus, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99515). 
across vomer, constricted medially; interorbital 324, concavely de- 
pressed. Gill opening large, extends forward opposite middle of 
eye. Gill rakers 4+9, clavate, robust, long as gill filaments, which 
are 14 of orbit. 
Armature of head quite robust, with many ridges finely serrate or 
rugose and spines broad, low and strong; pair of broad low nasal 
spines; supraorbital spines little differentiated as antero-preorbital 
pair and two close-set postero-supraorbital pairs; nuchal and supra- 
occipital pairs low, with last better developed; three or four pre- 
orbitals, last best developed and directed downward; spines on sub- 
orbital stay irregular and low; preopercle with five spines, first below 
