PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 423 
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This remarkable species strikingly differs from all others referred 
by us to Coryphaenoides in the anterior position of the anus, which 
is located well in advance of the anal fin. But it has six branchios- 
tegal rays, and its reference to Coryphaenoides is corroborated by 
the entire appearance of the fish. Macrurus heyningeni Weber, a 
species recently described from the East Indies, is described as 
having six branchiostegal rays and the anus remote from the anal 
fin. It probably is a species of Coryphaenoides, but certainly is not 
C. hyostomus. 
The orbit of the type-specimen is contained 4.3 times in the head, 
1.3 times in the snout, and 1.0 times in the interorbital space. In 
the other specimens the orbit is contained 4.05 to 4.4 times in the 
head, 1.2 to 1.4 times in the snout, and in some slightly exceeds in 
length the least interorbital width. The large flap which covers 
the anterior nostril in the type is not constantly enlarged. The 
mouth, as usual in the genus, is U-shaped, and longer than broad; 
the statement to the contrary, in the type description, is due to the 
frequent distortion of the head, which throws outward the walls 
of the branchial cavity. The suborbital ridge is especially well 
developed, extending backward beyond the orbit, but not to the 
preopercle; the total length of the ridge is equal to that of the man- 
dible. The tip of the snout is armed with short but robust spinules 
which display no “definite order in their arrangement; the lateral 
rostral tubercles are indistinct. The slit before the first gill-arch is 
0.3 as long as the orbit. There are 5 or 6 rows of scales between the 
origin of the second dorsal and the lateral line, excluding the scale 
perforated by the lateral line. 
The dorsal spine bears 3 to 5 indistinct or small serrations on its 
anterior edge, confined to a basal portion containing the length of 
the orbit 1 to 1.8 times. The head is contained 1.88 times in the 
dorsal spine in the type, 2.02, 2.08, 2.17, 2.68+-, and 2.83 times in 
five of the other specimens. First dorsal, II, 9 in all specimens but 
one, which has 8 soft rays; ventral fin with 8 rays in all cases; pec- 
toral rays, 17 to 20. 
1 Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition, 1913, p. 156, pl. 5, fig. 3. 
