PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 399 
vary widely, as it does in the related species. The pseudobranchiae 
are covered by membrane in the three specimens at hand. The 
rather widely spaced gill-rakers are smooth on their inner edge, and 
are bluntly tipped; they are about half as long as the orbit. Gill- 
rakers 5+23 and 5+24 in the type, 5+22 and 5+21 in the larger 
paratype. The branchial aperture extends forward to below the 
front of the pupil; a slit is present behind the last gill; seven branchi- 
ostegals. In the paratype examined the scapular foramen is in con- 
tact with both the hypercoracoid and the hypocoracoid. 
The scales closely resemble those of G. denticulatus in their finer 
structure, but differ remarkably in one point: the marks which were 
considered as possible season-indicators are much less pronounced, 
and consist chiefly of a sudden bending of the striae along a line 
Fic. 4.—GADOMUS MAGNIFILIS. TYPH. 
parallel with the margin of the scale (as seen on a scale from the 
type, 103 mm. long to the anus, and also in one from the paratype, 
70 mm. long to anus.) In each of these a slight suggestion of a 
“check” occurs outside of the better defined one. A light streak was 
observed beneath this line in the substance of the scale. A marked 
approximation of the rings a short distance out from the center 
gives much the appearance of the first winter check in the salmon 
scale. The less pronounced marks on the scales of this species lends 
some support to the assumption that they are season marks, as the 
seasons would be expected to leave a lesser trace on a fish inhabiting 
greater depths. 
Seven scales were counted, in each of the three specimens, in a 
series between the origin of the second dorsal and the lateral line, 
not including the laferal line scale. The mandibular scales are in 
a single series, with a few lateral scales posteriorly. The lateral 
line is elevated on the trunk. 
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