PHILIPPINE MACROUROID FISHES—GILBERT AND HUBBS. 9dO1 
has but six rows between the lateral line series and the front of the | 
second dorsal; in divergens there are 7 to 9 rows (7 in 2 specimens, 
8 in 13, 9 in 7). The gular and branchiostegal membranes are 
scaleless. 
The anus is located just behind the ventral fins; it is preceded, 
after a scaly interspace, by a very small naked spot or fossa like that 
of garmani and nigrodorsalis. 
The. numerous and fine denticulations of the second dorsal spine 
are sometimes obscure proximally. The bases of the pectoral and 
ventral fins are on the same vertical in the type, but in some speci- 
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mens the ventral is inserted a little farther forward. The second 
ventral ray extends to the origin of the anal fin. 
Color in alcohol, silvery on the sides; brown on the back, becom- 
ing darker anteriorly; blackish on the under surface of the trunk 
and head, and on the jaws, which, however, are whitish about the 
corners of the mouth. There is a dark streak along the front margin 
of the snout, and another at the occiput. The first dorsal fin is dusky 
proximally, but lacks the deep black spot of nigrodorsalis and peter- 
sonii; the base and axil of the pectoral fin are black; the ventral fin 
is almost black in the type and in some paratypes, but usually is 
dusky, becoming blackish proximally. The lining of the buccal 
cavity is mostly whitish; that of the branchial cavity mostly black- 
ish brown, but whitish over most of the hyoid arch and on the ex- 
treme free edge of the branchiostegal and opercular membranes. 
The parietal peritoneum is silvery, with brownish spots. 
