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brown, simply as series of parallel dusky bars on soft fin. Caudal 
with few dusky spots basally and pectoral largely spotted with 
dusky. Ventral with three dark blotches, one of which basal. 
Length, 120 mm. Cebu. 
Family LOPHIIDAE. 
LOPHIOMUS SETIGERUS (Vahl). 
Head, measured to front edge of gill-opening, 1$; body depth 3 in 
head; D. I—I—I—I—n, 8; A. 7; snout, 23 in head; maxillary, 14; 
interorbital, 34; eye, 22 in interorbital. Second dorsal spine appar- 
ently high as first (tip slightly damaged). Lateral filaments mod- 
erate. Color in alcohol nearly bister above, variegated with obscure 
lighter spots and darker cloudings. Pectoral blackish terminally. 
Caudal dusky basally, outer portion pale. Tongue and surrounding 
branchial region inside mouth below blackish, with two rows of con- 
trasted white spots. Under surface of body, including ventral and 
anal, white. Length, 67mm. Takao. 
Family ONCOCEPHALIDAE. 
HALIEUTAEA STELLATA (Vahl). 
Disk width, 14 to 14 in combined head and trunk; 4 to 43; 
D. 5; A. 5; P. 10; mouth width, 2% to 3 in disk width; eye little 
greater than interorbital, about 8 in disk width; nasal cavity three- 
fourths to equal of eye diameter. Spinules on upper surface of 
disk three-rooted. Color in alcohol with lower surface nearly uni- 
form pale olive-buff. Upper surface little darker brown, with nearly 
olive-brown cloudings about middle of disk. Caudal pale, with four 
brownish cross bars. Dorsal with dull brown shades, other fins whit- 
ish hike belly. Length, 59 to 60mm. Takao. 
Our examples agree largely with one described by Jordan and 
Sindo.*t Both differ, however, in the presence of more anal rays. 
51 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, p. 380. Ajiro near Atami. 
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