PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 487 
strong spinules; the median occipital scute is also a strong tubercle, 
bearing a single spinous keel (three in one specimen) ; the scute may 
or may not be preceded on each side by a similar scale, or by a short 
naked region; from near the front of the scute five rows of scales 
diverge forward, confined posteriorly between the occipital. ridges, 
but curving outward on the snout to bound the median series; these 
scales are mostly armed by a single, but sometimes by 2, 3, or even 4 
trenchant spinuous keels. The anterolateral region of the snout, 
within the infraorbital ridge, together with the lower portion of 
the nasal fossa, is covered by small scales with a single (more rarely 
several) spinous ridge, the height of which may exceed the length 
of the scale. The series of scales on the postorbital and the posterior 
half of the supraorbital ridges are similar to those of the occipital 
ridges; between the postorbital and occipital ridges the scales are 
httle modified, usually bearing several carinae; those bounding the 
ridges are reduced in size, while those forming the median series 
are somewhat enlarged. The scales on the opercles and on the 
upper half of the cheeks in general are similar to those of the body. 
The underside of the head, excluding only the lips and the gular’ 
and branchiostegal membranes, is wholly covered by small scales, 
each of which bears a high spiny keel. 
In one paratype the outer ventral ray, reaching a little past the 
origin of the anal, is 0.53 of the length of the head (0.45 in type). 
Length of the pectoral fin, 2.0 to 2.4 in head. 
The color becomes darker on the belly and opercles. The linings 
of the buccal, branchial, and peritoneal cavities are wholly dark 
brown, with the exception of an indistinct light margin along the 
free edge of the opercular and branchiostegal membranes. 
Table of measurements in hundredths of length to anus. 
Type. Paratypes. 
Ab Piross StavlOMe..c2.2 Fase. Says = FS ERE ee saunas estos 5585 5658 =| 5657 5658 
Pengehytoranusimemm 22 sh 2 oS beeper. cre tee 150 144 130 122 
ene OmbeAG wicks rer eeew tau teas toeeee wees eee Wee 66 68 “69 69 
en Pp eneOmORDM Ne esas eos wareean sarc Mee sieeeek Co ele fee 20.5 19 ZS 20. 5 
Postiorbital length of head 23.5 23.5 | 25 24 
Width of interorbital iis Bel SOBRE Se 17 15.5 
Width of suborbitai-. 9.5 tot vial Wineet 5 oe 10 
Orbit to preopercle. - . 26 25.5 | 28 27 
Length of snout...... 25 oy fate 24 27 
Length of upper jaw = 18 18 18 17 
Depth of body ....... DS SUCHE Oe ACER CAL on ee nae aad a soe 35 36 37 35 
VAVAIGTIA QU of0f0 ree Sat cis Ane MAREN de eaten i pei GU rE 27 2375 5) 26 26 
ANTSNOIS TK AIR ND) es) As Oe SSS SR ee Ro a ae ee eee ee eee a | 31.5 39.5 28 26.5 
WEN irAlTLONSHOINUS peste ine a sc. 2 Sober ene noe eases 22 23 22 20.5 
Wena ihotsirsind orsalibaseia se. 0l 42s ot tnmnco nse fe aoe oockin esses 14 13.5 14.5 12 
(platorhynchus, in reference to the form of the snout.) 
