PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 517 
of first dorsal is not oblique. Greatest depth of body, below origin 
of first dorsal, 2.33 in length of head; greatest width, across pectoral 
bases, 3.0; the depth, at a distance behind snout twice the length of 
head, is contained only twice in the postorbital length, and is about 3 
times the width of the tail at the same point. The sides of the head 
are convex; the snout is heavy and broad; its preocular length is 
contained 2.15 times in length of head; it preoral length, 2.3 times; 
its width at base, 2.65 times; the width of the snout at anterolateral 
angles is a little less than the length anterior to that point. The in- 
fraorbital, occipital, supranarial, supraorbital, and postorbital ridges 
are exceedingly strong and heavily spined. The preopercular ridge 
and margin are oblique; the sharply pointed flap of the subopercle, 
concealed by the produced lobe at the angle of the preopercle, is 
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directed downward and backward, and is almost as long as the pupil. 
The orbit is oval and small; its length is equal to the least interorbital 
width, and is twice the least distance between the occipital ridges; 
orbit 4.3 in head, 2.0 in snout, 1.3 in postorbital. Least suborbital 
width, 2.4 in postorbital. The upper jaw extends from below the 
posterior nostril backward to below the hind margin of the pupil; 
its length is contained 4.65 times in the head. The barbel is slender 
and very short, being contained 7.5 times into the postorbital. The 
teeth are in rather narrow bands in the jaws; there are only about 
three teeth in a cross section of the mandibular band laterally. Six 
branchiostegals. 
Distance between isthmus and base of ventral, 1.4 in distance from 
base of ventral to center of anus, 1.5 in postorbital length. There are 
no naked areas on the breast. 
The scales are large, being in 44 rows from the origin of the second 
dorsal to but excluding the lateral line series; this number does not 
