NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 83 
Family CHAMPSODONTIDAE 
Genus CHAMPSODON Giinther 
CHAMPSODON CURTIPES, new species 
FIGURE 21 
Depth 4%; head 3, width 2. Snout 314 in head measured from snout 
tip, which is level with middle of eye; eye 584, 124 in snout, 175 in 
interobital; maxillary reaches behind eye space about equal to 14 of 
eye diameter, expansion 11 in eye, length 114 in head measured from 
snout tip; mouth well oblique, lower jaw well protruded in front and 
with conic point directed forward at symphysis; teeth in narrow 
band above, with inner larger row of fangs, depressible inward; 
two rows of teeth below, inner long fangs and depressible; cluster of 
few teeth, depressible, variable, each side of vomer; on top of head 
two bony keels forming wide set pair as prefrontal, frontal, parietal 
ma. 
H. W. F. del. 
Ficure 21.—Champsodon curtipes, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99506). 
and occipital, last diverging to distinct suprascapular spine; edge of 
gill opening with elements of preopercle, subopercle, and interopercle 
forming marginal series of short equidistant denticles; preopercle 
with bent or crooked spine at angle, length 114 in eye and three for- 
ward-directed spines along its lower edge; preorbital with three diver- 
gent short spines, first directed forward, median downward and last 
backward ; two short postocular ridges. Gill rakers 1+ 11, lanceolate, 
subequal with gill filaments or 2 in eye. 
Scales all very small, irregular, closely set. On cranium, trunk, 
and tail transverse series of distinct lines of small scales, separated, 
about 30 such lines above, and on each side of body intersected by 2 
