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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol. 
  44. 
  

  

  circular; 
  snout 
  4.15, 
  pointed, 
  projecting 
  beyond 
  mouth; 
  mouth 
  hargc, 
  

   sUghtly 
  oblique, 
  lips 
  thin, 
  upper 
  jaw 
  overhanging 
  lower; 
  maxillary 
  

   1.89, 
  reaching 
  beyond 
  vertical 
  from 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  eye 
  for 
  about 
  

   0.5 
  an 
  eye 
  diameter, 
  its 
  length 
  greater 
  than 
  snout 
  plus 
  eye; 
  teeth 
  

   small, 
  blunt, 
  arranged 
  as 
  in 
  unimaculatus; 
  interorbital 
  4.25, 
  convex; 
  

   opercle 
  armed 
  with 
  a 
  single 
  sharp 
  spine, 
  a 
  small 
  spinule 
  at 
  angle 
  of 
  

   preoperculum, 
  a 
  second 
  about 
  0.5 
  an 
  eye 
  diameter 
  above 
  this, 
  these 
  

   project 
  but 
  little 
  beyond 
  the 
  skin 
  coveiing 
  preopercle; 
  pseudobran- 
  

   chiae 
  consisting 
  of 
  several 
  small 
  filaments; 
  gill-rakers 
  5 
  + 
  11; 
  pyloiic 
  

   coeca 
  finger-like, 
  arranged 
  as 
  in 
  other 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus; 
  10 
  scales 
  

   in 
  a 
  series 
  from 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  dorsal 
  to 
  and 
  including 
  lateral 
  line; 
  

   lateral 
  line 
  disappearing 
  at 
  a 
  point 
  less 
  than 
  0.5 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  

   head 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  caudal. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  caudal, 
  the 
  last 
  rays 
  extend- 
  

   ing 
  nearly 
  to 
  middle 
  of 
  caudal 
  fin; 
  distance 
  of 
  dorsal 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  

   snout 
  3.60 
  (4.03 
  in 
  total 
  length); 
  distance 
  of 
  anal 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  snout 
  

   2.51 
  (2.73 
  in 
  total 
  length); 
  distance 
  of 
  anal 
  from 
  pectoral 
  base 
  about 
  

   0.7 
  length 
  of 
  head; 
  ventrals 
  bifid, 
  bases 
  well 
  separated, 
  inserted 
  

   slightly 
  behind 
  humeral 
  symphysis, 
  inner 
  ray 
  longest, 
  1.37 
  in 
  head, 
  

   1.33 
  in 
  the 
  distance 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  origin 
  of 
  anal; 
  pectorals 
  1.55 
  in 
  head, 
  

   acutely 
  rounded. 
  

  

  Color 
  in 
  alcohol: 
  Back 
  above 
  lateral 
  line 
  wood-brown, 
  becoming 
  

   lighter 
  below; 
  belly 
  pearl 
  gray, 
  punctulate 
  with 
  darker; 
  vertical 
  fins 
  

   dusky 
  gray; 
  caudal 
  and 
  basal 
  portion 
  of 
  anal 
  posteriorly 
  darker, 
  

   paired 
  fins 
  pearl-gray, 
  finely 
  punctulate 
  with 
  darker; 
  peritoneum 
  

   brownish 
  black. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  C&t. 
  No. 
  74128, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  16.1 
  cm. 
  in 
  length, 
  taken 
  with 
  

   a 
  beam 
  trawl 
  at 
  station 
  5392 
  (lat. 
  12° 
  12' 
  35" 
  N.; 
  long. 
  124° 
  02' 
  48" 
  

   E.), 
  near 
  Destacado 
  Island 
  between 
  Samar 
  and 
  Masbate, 
  at 
  a 
  depth 
  of 
  

   135 
  fathoms, 
  on 
  a 
  bottom 
  of 
  green 
  mud 
  and 
  sand. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  close 
  to 
  N. 
  unimaculatus, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  by 
  the 
  entire 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  black 
  ocellus 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  fin, 
  

   the 
  slightly 
  greater 
  number 
  of 
  rays 
  in 
  the 
  dorsal 
  fin, 
  by 
  the 
  more 
  

   anterior 
  insertion 
  of 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal, 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  smaller 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  

   ventrals. 
  The 
  collection 
  contains 
  a 
  single 
  other 
  example 
  from 
  the 
  

   neighboring 
  station 
  5393. 
  

  

  NEOBYTfflTES 
  (WATASEA) 
  FASCIATUS 
  Smith 
  and 
  Radcliffe, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Plate 
  7, 
  fig. 
  4. 
  

  

  f 
  Watasea 
  sivicola 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Starks, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Comm., 
  vol. 
  22, 
  1902, 
  

   p. 
  601, 
  pi. 
  3, 
  fig. 
  3, 
  1904, 
  Suruga 
  Bay, 
  Sagami 
  Bay, 
  Japan. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  96; 
  caudal 
  9; 
  anal 
  81; 
  ventrals 
  2; 
  pectorals 
  25. 
  

  

  Head 
  4.74 
  (5.08 
  in 
  total 
  length), 
  short, 
  subquadrangular 
  in 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  section; 
  body 
  elongate, 
  compressed, 
  greatest 
  depth 
  4.87 
  (5.22 
  in 
  

   total 
  length) 
  ; 
  eye 
  4.13, 
  large, 
  subcircular; 
  snout 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  eye, 
  blunt, 
  

  

  