PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 485 
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1 Type. 
Type-specimen.—387 mm. in total length; 150 mm. to anus; 
dredged at Albatross station 5585. 
Fin-rays '—first dorsal, II, 9; pectorals, 18 (to 16) ; ventrals, 7. 
The general form of the body is correctly indicated in the two type 
figures; the greatest depth of the body, at the posterior end of head, 
is contained 1.9 (to 2.1) times in the length of head to end of opercu- 
lar membrane. The greatest width of the body is contained 2.5 
(to 3.0) times in the head; the greatest width of the head is equal to 
its depth through the hind margin of the eye. Preocular length of 
snout, 2.7 (2.5 to 2.9); preoral length, 3.05 (2.9 to 3.3); width of 
snout across its base, 2.7 (to 2.5); width of snout at end of ethmoid 
region of the infraorbital ridge, into the distance from that point to 
the tip of snout, 0.75 (to 0.8). The occipital ridges diverge rather 
widely posteriorly; the least distance between them is contained 1.7 
(to 2.0) times in interorbital. Length of the orbit: 3.4 (3.35 to 3.6) in 
head; 1.25 (1.2 to 1.4) in snout; 1.2 (to 1.25) in postorbital. Least 
interorbital width, 1.6 (1.5 to 1.7) in postorbital; least suborbital 
width, 2.5 (2.4 to 3.0). Length of upper jaw into head, 3.85 (3.8 to 
4.1) ; the upper jaw extends from below the hind margin of the an- 
terior nostril backward to a vertical passing across the eye between 
its hind margin and the pupil. Branchiostegal rays, 6; the gill- 
membranes form a free fold across the isthmus. The free length of 
the barbel enters 4.9 (4.2 to 5.2) times into the postorbital length of 
the head. The lower subopercular angle is produced backward as a 
long narrow flap, which is curved slightly downward distally. 
Distance from center of anus to base of outer ventral ray, 2.15 (to 
2.9) in head; distance from ventral fin to isthmus, 3.2 (to 3.6) ; dis- 
tance from anus to isthmus, 1.3 (to 1.6). The anus is immediately 
preceded by a naked space about as long as the peritroct; above it, 
between the muscles of the body wall, there lies a flattened gland-like 
body which probably represents the structure described in some de- 
tail in other species; in color this organ is black below, and dusky 
above. 
Thirty-two pyloric caeca about as long as the orbit were counted 
im a paratype. 
1 Counted in all eight specimens. 
