GNATHOLEPIS 137 



Since the above was written I received a gorgeously colored 

 male specimen, 38 millimeters long, from San Juan, Siquijor. 

 The tips of the second and third dorsal spines are filamentous, 

 1.2 times in the head; the second dorsal is high, the antepenul- 

 timate ray longest, 1.1 times in the head; the anal is similar but 

 lower, the longest ray equal to the first dorsal. 



The color in life was yellowish gray with four broad vertical 

 crossbands, of a very dark reddish violet or violet-brown hue, 

 most prominent on the ventral half, the first behind the pectorals, 

 the fourth near the posterior end of the second dorsal; a row 

 of about eight large circular spots on the side, the first at the 

 axil of the pectoral, the others high up on the side between or 

 above the crossbands, the last two on the middle of the side of 

 the caudal peduncle; the bands and spots all with a wide pearl 

 margin; the sides of the head and pectoral base are thickly 

 sprinkled with circular or elongate pearl spots; a red streak 

 along the supraopercular groove to beyond the pectoral, and 

 another one longitudinally across the opercle and base of the 

 pectoral ; a black band starts from the upper margin of the eye, 

 crosses the cheek diagonally behind the mouth, and meets its 

 fellow beneath the throat; the first dorsal is yellow with ir- 

 regular golden brown crossbars; behind the base of the fourth 

 and sixth spines is a small violet-red ocellated spot; the second 

 dorsal membrane is dark brown; the anal membrane is banded 

 by three rows of deep violet, alternating with two rows of 

 bright yellow spots, all more or less circular; the caudal is 

 crossbarred by many alternate rows of bright red and brown 

 spots; the ventrals have yellow membranes, densely sprinkled 

 with minute blackish specks. 



59. GNATHOLEPIS KNIGHTI Jordan and Evermann 



PLATE 29, FIG. 1 



Gnatholepis knighti JORDAN and EVERMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 

 22 (1902) 204, pi. 58. 



Dorsal VI, 1-11; anal I, 11; there are 30 scales in a longitu- 

 dinal series, 10 in a transverse series, and 8 before the first 

 dorsal. 



The body short, strongly compressed laterally, the depth about 

 4.25 times in length, the dorsal profile nearly horizontal, the 

 ventral one convex, sloping up posteriorly to caudal, the head 

 3.45 or 3.5 times in length, deeper than broad, its breadth 0.875 

 of its depth, which is nearly equal to that of body and contained 



