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about 70 in a lateral series, which are entirely absent forward 

 of first dorsal, clear round the body; the head broad, flat; 

 mouth small, nearly vertical, wholly anterior to eyes, with pro- 

 jecting lower jaw and chin, teeth minute, in three rows in 

 each jaw, without canines; the tip of tongue rounded; on the 

 top and sides of head and underside of suborbital and maxilla 

 are short transverse, diagonal, and longitudinal seams rather 

 than ridges; large pores on head as follows: One before upper 

 anterior part of eye, one at posterior end of interorbital, and 

 a row of three from eye back to opercle ; the dorsals separated, 

 none of the spines or rays of the vertical fins elongated or 

 filiform; no silky rays above on pectoral; the gill openings 

 narrow, restricted, no wider than base of pectoral and extend- 

 ing slightly below it, the isthmus broad; branchiostegals five. 



This genus is close to Gobionellus Girard, but does not agree 

 with Bleeker's diagnosis of that group. Galera differs in having 

 no scales forward of the dorsal, in the seams on the head, and 

 in the shape of the lower jaw. Generic type, Galera, producta 

 sp. nov. 



Galera, from Puerto Galera, Mindoro, where it was collected. 



40. GALERA PRODUCTA sp. HOT. 



PLATE 7, FIG. 3 



Dorsal VI, 1-13; anal I, 11; there are about 70 scales in 

 a longitudinal series and 18 or 20 in a transverse series. 



The body slender and much elongated, the dorsal and ven- 

 tral profiles nearly parallel, laterally much compressed poste- 

 riorly, probably plump and rounded anteriorly in life, but now 

 much shriveled and wrinkled, the depth 7.6 times in the length ; 

 the head very broad, flat, 4.9 times in length, its breadth 0.8 

 of its length, 1.6 times its own depth, and much wider than body; 

 the snout very broad, blunt, with a median posterior hump 

 and two anterior lateral ones, four times in head ; the eyes dorsal, 

 upward gazing, equal to snout in length, postorbital length of 

 head a little more than the distance from tip of snout to posterior 

 rim of eye; the interorbital 2.5 times in eye; the mouth small, 

 oblique, with projecting lower jaw, the posterior angle of maxil- 

 lary not extending back as far as front margin of eye ; three rows 

 of minute teeth in each jaw, those of outer row larger than 

 the others and more widely spaced, all teeth slender, needle- 

 shaped, and more or less depressible; the body covered poste- 

 riorly with minute cycloid scales which disappear anteriorly, 

 head and body naked forward of origin of first dorsal; the 

 snout, sides, and top of head and nape marked by dark longitu- 



