NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 89 
Family ZOARCIDAE 
Genus LYCENCHELYS Gill 
LYCENCHELYS SPILOTUS, new species 
Figure 24. 
Depth 11 2/5; head 6, width 2 7/8. Snout 5 1/5 in head, convex, 
front end or tip falling slightly below level of lower eye edge; eye 3 4/7, 
greater than snout or interorbital, entering upper profile of head; 
mouth low, little inclined from horizontal and jaws even; maxillary 
reaches halfway in eye, length 3 in head; interorbital narrow, width 
4 in eye, concave. Guill opening subvertical, length 3 1/6 in head. 
Scales present only on trunk and tail, on front of back along base 
of dorsal fin and median strip on belly naked, also head. Fins scale- 
less. 
Ficure 24.—Lycenchelys spilotus, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99511). 
Dorsal rays about 70, fin height 4 1/8, fin origin close behind head 
or nearly over pectoral; anal rays about 64, fin height 414; caudal 
length 5 2/3; pectoral 1 2/8, rays 17; ventral length 3 3/4. 
Color in alcohol light brown, variegated with 16 dark brown quad- 
rate blotches axially along side of body, each giving 2 dark lines above 
to dorsal base in interval opposite dark quadrate blotch dark bar; on 
tail each quadrate blotch gives off pair of dark vertical bars or blotches 
below which are reflected on base of anal fin. Dark blotch on pre- 
dorsal close before dorsal origin. On head several dark bars on occi- 
put, 1 on postocular, another from lower hind eye edge down over 
cheek. ‘Two dark bars on opercle. Under surface of head and trunk 
whitish. 
