FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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Color in spirits, dark brown; large scattered blue spots with black margins on head, thorax, belly, and 

 fins except spinous dorsal, which is dusky; no bars or spots on other portions of body, the spots on fins indis, 

 tinct, except on pectoral, where they form rows; pectoral with a slight wash of yellowish with a black margin- 

 otherwise the fins all blackish without a trace of lighter margins. 



This species is related to C. ijiiftalus, from which it difi'ers in the larger scales, longer ventrals, smaller 

 eye, and in coloration. 



One fine specimen from Bacon, no. 55911,1 .S. National Mu.seum (B. F. no. 3722), length 7. 5, in.: collector 

 Charles J. Pierson. 



We take pleasure in naming this species for our associate. Dr. Wm. C. Kendall, of the U. 8. Bureau of 

 Fisheries. 



114. Cephalopholis boenack (Bloch). 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3856; length 5 in.). 



Bodirinus ba-nack Bloch. Ichth., IV, 31, pi. ccxxvi, 1797. 

 Epinephdus banack, Bnulenger, Cat., i, 180. 



115. Cephalopholis obtusauris Evermunn & Scale, new species. 



Head 2.55 in length; depth 2.8; eye 5.3 in head: snout 3.9; interorbital 1.75 in snout: dorsal ix, 15; 

 anal in, 9; scales about 12-95-26, with 48 pores in lateral line. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed ; depth of caudal peduncle 2.95 in head ; body and head covered 

 with minute scales with rough margins ; lateral line with a distinct curve above pectoral ; head large ; mouth 

 very large; maxillary 2 in head, its distal end under middle of eye, its width 1.3 in eye; mandible 1.85; small 



Fig. 12. — Cephalopholis obtumuris Evermann & Scale, new species. Type. 



teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines, outer series on upper jaw slightly enlarged, with 2 canines on each side 

 anteriorly, and with some enlarged depressible teeth posterior to them; a canine on each side of symphysis of 

 lower jaw, with a row of larger depressible teeth among the small ones on sides; 14 gillrakers on lower limb 

 (counting knobs), the longest equal to pupil; preopercle slightly rough; opercle with 3 spines, the lower one 

 a little anterior to the others, the upper one more removed from center one; opercular flap very obtusely 

 rounded, not ending in a sharp point; origin of dorsal fin on a line with axil of pectoral, and midway between 

 tip of snout and base of eighth dorsal ray; longest doreal spine 3 in head, the anterior spine less than diameter 

 of eye; longest dorsal ray 2.3 in head; origin of anal slightly nearer base of ventral than to base of caudal, and 

 on a line with base of third dorsal ray; base of anal 2.4 in head, its longest ray 2 in head, the second anal spine 

 the strongest and slightly the longest; ventrals 1.75 in head, their tips reaching a little past vent, but not to 

 base of anal (in; pectoral 1.3 in head, the tip on a line with origin of anal fin; caudal rounded, 1.75 in head. 



