PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HuBBS. 408 
half that of the eye to two-thirds that of the head (1.25 in eye in 
type); it is probably a healed stub when extremely short. The 
pseudobranchial filaments are covered by a membrane, which is rup- 
tured in the type-specimen. 
The gill-rakers are slightly roughened on their inner edge; are 
bluntly tipped, rather widely spaced, and are short, being about as 
long as the least suborbital width in the adults, but relatively a little 
longer in the young. Number of gill-rakers 6+23 and 6+24 on 
the two sides of the type, varying from 5+20 to 6+24 in the para- 
types; other gill-structures as in related species. The scapular for- 
amen is in contact with both the hypercoracoid and the hypocoracoid. 
The scales in their finer structure are very similar to those of the 
other species. Toward the margin of the scale inthe type-specimen 
there appears a break in the rings like the breaks which appeared 
more strongly in @. denticulatus. There is also that approximation 
of striae which, occurring near the center of the scale, may represent 
a check in the first year’s growth. This approximation of the rings 
occurs in all of the species examined. 
There are constantly seven scales in a series between the origin of 
the second dorsal fin and the lateral line scales. The scales on the 
mandible are in two series except at the anterior end of the rami. 
The lateral line, high on the trunk, runs below the middle of the 
tail. 
The first spine of the dorsal fin is concealed; the second is greatly 
produced, but less so than in G. multifilis, G. longifilis, or G. mag- 
nifilis; its length is a half greater than that of the head, or 0.85 of 
the length to the anus in the type, varying in the paratypes from 
shorter than the head to considerably less than twice the head, and 
varies from half the length to anus to a little more than that length. 
The length of the second pectoral ray varies greatly, from less than 
three-fourths to one and a half times the length to anus. The length 
of the outer ventral ray never approaches twice that of the head, 
but is always longer than the head; it is four-fifths (0.65 to 0.93) as 
ereat as the length to anus. The first dorsal, pectoral and ventral 
fins begin on about the same vertical. The distance between the 
anus and the base of the outer ventral ray is contained about 1.5 
times in the head. 
Pyloric caeca (in several specimens), 35 to 52. 
The color was apparently dark brown, a little darker on the belly, 
and blackish on the snout, mandible, and sides of the head. The sil- 
very reflections on the abdominal region and on the sides of the head 
are probably less marked than in the preceding species. The buccal, 
branchial, and peritoneal cavities are wholly lined with black, being 
