88 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
closed; teeth minute, in narrow bands in jaws, above cluster each 
side in front followed by narrow band or line on each palatine; bony 
interorbital narrow frenum, its width 214 in eye. Gill opening ex- 
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Figure 23.—Rowasella fusiforme, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99517). 
tends forward halfway in head. Gill rakers not developed, merely 
as several groups of low minute asperities. 
Scales 29+1 in lateral line; 2 above, 4 below, 15 predorsal forward 
to eyes; 9 postocular scales on head; row of 12 median scales before 
ventrals to isthmus. Head scaly, except muzzle and narrow median 
branchial space. Except for basal row of caudal scales fins scale- 
less. Lateral line axial along side of body. 
D. IfI—16, first spine 335 in head, third ray 21%, last ray 414; 
A. 24, first ray 5, seventh ray 344, last ray 6; least depth of caudal 
peduncle 545; caudal 114, hind edge convex; pectoral 114, rays 15; 
ventral I, 5, fin 314 in head. 
Color in alcohol pale brown, above variegated with three dark longi- 
tudinal streaks on body as 2 above lateral line and 1 below. Also 
three longitudinal streaks on each side of head. Iris grayish. Fins 
pale. First dorsal with 2 or 3 brown spots on each spine. Second dor- 
sal with same on each ray. Caudal with 4 dark transverse bands. 
Distinctions embodied in the generic account above. 
Type—wU.S.N.M. No. 99517. Aparri, Luzon. November 19, 1908. 
Length 63 mm. 
Paratype —U.S.N.M. No. 99518. Aparri, Luzon. November 19, 
1908. Length 44mm. 
(fusiformis, fusiform or spindlelike. ) 
