﻿NO. 
  1948. 
  XEW 
  BROTVLID 
  AND 
  CARAPID 
  FISHES— 
  RADCLIFFE. 
  169 
  

  

  flaplike 
  appendage 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  pylorus; 
  scales 
  small, 
  cycloid, 
  

   persistent; 
  cheeks, 
  opercles, 
  and 
  occiput 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  incon- 
  

   spicuous 
  scales, 
  rest 
  of 
  head 
  naked; 
  lateral 
  line 
  distinct, 
  interrupted 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  2 
  parts 
  overlapping 
  the 
  same 
  vertical. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  caudal, 
  their 
  bases 
  sheathed 
  

   with 
  thin 
  membranous 
  skin; 
  distance 
  of 
  origin 
  of 
  dorsal 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  

   snout 
  2,85 
  (3.15 
  in 
  total 
  length); 
  caudal 
  narrow; 
  distance 
  of 
  anal 
  

   from 
  tip 
  of 
  snout 
  1.80 
  (1.98 
  in 
  total 
  length); 
  ventrals 
  2.47 
  in 
  head, 
  

   each 
  composed 
  of 
  2 
  rays 
  closely 
  united 
  throughout 
  their 
  length, 
  

   bases 
  of 
  ventrals 
  close 
  together; 
  pectorals 
  1.40. 
  

  

  Color 
  in 
  alcohol: 
  Wood-brown; 
  dorsal 
  and 
  anal 
  dusky 
  anteriorly, 
  

   becoming 
  dark 
  clove 
  brown 
  posteriorly; 
  the 
  basal 
  portion 
  of 
  caudal 
  

   clove 
  brown, 
  distal 
  portion 
  somewhat 
  lighter; 
  pectorals 
  dusky; 
  peri- 
  

   toneum 
  silvery 
  gray. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  C&t. 
  No. 
  74149, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  14.3 
  cm. 
  in 
  length, 
  taken 
  with 
  a 
  

   beam 
  trawl 
  at 
  station 
  5409 
  (lat. 
  10° 
  38' 
  00'' 
  N. 
  ; 
  long. 
  124° 
  13' 
  08" 
  E.), 
  

   between 
  Cebu 
  and 
  Leyte, 
  at 
  a 
  depth 
  of 
  189 
  fathoms, 
  on 
  a 
  bottom 
  of 
  

   green 
  mud. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CAT^^TYX 
  Gunther. 
  

  

  The 
  Philippine 
  species 
  differs 
  from 
  Sarcocara 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  body 
  

   slender, 
  less 
  attenuated, 
  the 
  head 
  markedly 
  depressed, 
  porous; 
  cheeks 
  

   and 
  opercle 
  (and 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  posteriorly 
  in 
  the 
  young) 
  scaled; 
  eyes 
  

   superior; 
  lower 
  opercular 
  spine 
  very 
  indistinct, 
  covered 
  with 
  scales; 
  

   a 
  short 
  but 
  broad 
  flaplike 
  appendage 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  pylorus; 
  

   scales 
  persistent; 
  dorsal 
  about 
  100; 
  anal 
  about 
  70. 
  

  

  Diplacanthopoma 
  squamiceps 
  Lloyd 
  ^ 
  from 
  the 
  southeastern 
  coast 
  

   of 
  Arabia 
  should 
  be 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  as 
  characterized 
  above. 
  

  

  CAT^TYX 
  PLATYCEPHALUS 
  Smith 
  and 
  RadclifEe, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   Plate 
  16, 
  fig. 
  1. 
  

  

  Dorsal 
  98; 
  caudal 
  11; 
  anal 
  68; 
  ventrals 
  1; 
  pectorals 
  22. 
  

  

  Head 
  4.08 
  (4.61 
  in 
  total 
  length), 
  long, 
  low-depressed, 
  its 
  width 
  at 
  

   eyes 
  greater 
  than 
  its 
  depth; 
  outline 
  of 
  dorsal 
  surface 
  longitudinally 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  concave, 
  laterally 
  broadly 
  convex; 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  large 
  

   pores 
  on 
  lower 
  suborbital 
  region, 
  preopercle 
  and 
  mandible, 
  3 
  large 
  

   pores 
  in 
  a 
  line 
  between 
  eye 
  and 
  shoulder, 
  2 
  on 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  behind 
  

   eye, 
  1 
  between 
  eyes, 
  and 
  2 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  eyes; 
  body 
  slender, 
  strongly 
  

   compressed 
  posteriorly, 
  greatest 
  depth 
  6.12 
  (6.92 
  in 
  total 
  length), 
  

   1.52 
  in 
  head; 
  e^^e 
  5.13, 
  small, 
  superior; 
  snout 
  4.70, 
  slightly 
  longer 
  

   than 
  eye, 
  broad 
  and 
  bluntly 
  rounded; 
  mouth 
  wide, 
  oblique, 
  jaws 
  

   subequal; 
  maxiUary 
  2.45, 
  extending 
  be3^ond 
  vertical 
  from 
  posterior 
  

   margin 
  of 
  eye, 
  upper 
  margin 
  slipping 
  under 
  suborbital; 
  small, 
  equal 
  

  

  1 
  Lloyd, 
  Records 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  pt. 
  1, 
  1907, 
  p. 
  10; 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  the 
  Zoology 
  of 
  the 
  

   Investigator, 
  Fishes, 
  pi. 
  42, 
  fig. 
  2, 
  2a, 
  1908, 
  and 
  Memoirs 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  No. 
  3, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  165. 
  

  

  