FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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162. Scolopsis luzonia Jordan & Seale. 



Thirteen specimens from Bacon (no. 3730 to 3733, 3403 to 3406, 3829 to 3831, 4001 and 4017: length 4 to 

 6 in.), and one from San Fabian (no. 3332). A prominent serrated ridge on maxillar}-. 



Scolopsis luzonia Jordan & Seale, Bull. Bu. Fisheries, xxvi, 1906, Cavite, Luzon. (Collected by Dr. Lung; type, no. 9243, 

 Stanford Univ.). 



163. Scolopsis monogrammus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3277: length .5.85 in.). 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.8; eye 3.5 in head; snout 3: interorbital equals eye; scales .5-48-11, 6 rows on 

 cheek. 



Color in spirits, j'ellowish; an indistinct dusky band almost width of eye from head to caudal. 



This species is close to 6^. personatus, from which it difi'ers in the greater depth, narrower interorbital, 

 smaller scales, and in having 6 rows of scales (instead of 5) on the cheek. 



Scolopsides monogramtna Kuhl &Van Hasselt inCuvier& Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ,v, 2S4(33S) Java; Gunther, Cat., 



I, 358. 

 Scolopsis monogramma, Bleeker, .Vtlas, vnr. II, pi. rccxxxv. flg. 3. 



164. Scolopsis bulanensis Evermann & Seale, new species. 



Head 3.25 in length: depth 3.3; e3'e 2.75 in head; interorbital 3.5: snout 3.55; dorsal x, 9: anal m, 7; 

 scales 4-43-10. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed: depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; anterior prohle of head slightly 

 convex above eyes; mouth rather small, jaws equal: maxillary 3.75 in head, its distal end not reaching to 



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Fig. '5. — Scolopsis hulajunsis Evenninn & Seale, new species. Type. 



anterior margin of orbit: mandible 2.95 in head; teeth viUiform in jaws and on vomer; prcorbital width 3 

 in eye, with one strong spine above and 2 smaller ones below, the large one reaching slightly past middle of 

 eye; gillrakers consisting of blunt knobs, about 7 on lower arch; posterior margin of preopercle denticulate; 

 opercle with a single spine at its posterior margin; body fully scaled, 5 series on cheek; scales on top of head 

 minute, those on belly larger; vertical fins unsealed, but fitting into scaly sheath; origin of dorsal slightly 

 posterior to origin of pectoral, longest spine 2.75 in head, longest ray 2.75; origin of anal nearer origin of 

 ventrals than to base of caudal, its longest ray 2.7 in head, the second anal spine longest and strongest, 2.5 in 

 head, base of anal 3.6 in base of dorsal; ventrals 1.3 in head, their tip falling far short of anal; pectoral 1.35 

 in head, scarcely reaching tip of ventrals; caudal forked. 



Color in spirits, dull yellowish brown; an indistinct dusky longitudinal line on side; short oblique black 

 lines between pectoral fin and lateral line; an oblong white lilotch extending fonvard and downwan' from 

 posterior axil of dorsal to near middle of body; a black .spot at axil of pectoral, another on posterior portion 

 of opercle just in front of pectoral; fins unmarked. 



