GALERA 103 



equal to the length of head and extending to a point over anus; 

 the ventrals elongate, 1.2 in the length of head, not reaching 

 anus; the anal papilla very small, slender and pointed. 



Color in life yellowish white, marbled and mottled with brown and 

 grayish; three irregular-shaped oblique dusky bands backward and down- 

 ward, one from spinous dorsal, two from soft dorsal; some dusky .stripes 

 on sides of head, one from snout to eye, another from eye to upper margin 

 of opercle, another from posterior margin of eye obliquely backward, two 

 others on lower sides of cheeks. Dorsal yellowish with dusky blotch in 

 lower central portion and some other slight shadings of dusky scattered 

 over the fin. Soft dorsal with about three oblique dusky bars, the middle 

 one most distinct, posterior tip of fin dusky. Caudal yellowish gray with 

 three dark bands triangular in shape, the angle pointing backward. Anal 

 yellow with throe dusky oblique bars, posterior tip of fin dusky. Ventrals 

 pinkish with slight blotches of dusky. Pectorals yellowish, a dusky irreg- 

 ular bar running out on upper half of fin. [Seale.] 



The color in alcohol after seventeen years almost uniform 

 yellowish brown, the head mottled brown; the first dorsal pale 

 with a central dusky blotch ; the middle part of soft dorsal dark 

 brown, posterior tip blackish; the intervening part with cross- 

 bars of pale and dark brown spots; the caudal mottled dark 

 and pale brown; the pectoral crossbarred with pale and dark 

 brown spots ; the other fins specked with brown. 



Here described from the type, 38 millimeters long, or 54 

 millimeters including tail, collected by Scale at Jolo. 



Seale was mistaken in stating that there are no scales in 

 front of the dorsal and that the head is entirely naked. 



I also place here a specimen collected by E. H. Taylor from 

 the coral reef at Odiongan, Tablas. In this one, a female, the 

 proportions are a trifle different. Scales in a longitudinal series, 

 50; length 44 millimeters; depth 6 times in length, head 3.66 

 times, caudal 3 times. In addition to the three rows of slender 

 needlelike teeth in the lower jaw mentioned before, there are 

 six longer and stouter fixed teeth in front of them ; in the upper 

 jaw there are three rows of minute teeth behind the enlarged 

 outer row; the scales on the cheeks and opercles are plainly 

 evident, the ridges and flaps less developed than in the type 

 specimen. The color is very close to that already given. 

 Genus 24. GALERA g. HOT. 



Dorsal VI, 1-12 to 15; anal I, 10 to 12. 



The body very long and slender, with exceedingly elongate 

 and pointed caudal, about twice in the length and more than 

 twice as long as head, and very elongate pointed pectoral, much 

 longer than head; the body covered with minute cycloid scales, 



