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1.37 times in its own length; the nape not rounded but appressed, 

 almost ridged; the snout convex, bluntly rounded, 3.1 times in 

 head and a little more than eye, which is 3.66 times in head ; the 

 eyes very high up, lateral, close together, the interorbital about 

 4 times in eye diameter; the oblique mouth small, with pro- 

 tractile upper lip, wholly anterior, the jaws equal, the posterior 

 angle of maxillary before front margin of eye ; the teeth of outer 

 row in upper jaw enlarged, hooked or curved, followed by an 

 inner row of minute depressible teeth; in the lower jaw is a 

 short row of small outer teeth, the posterior ones hooked, with 

 an inner row of erect, depressible, smaller teeth; the cheeks 

 entirely covered by three rows of scales, the opercles with four 

 rows ; the entire body scaled, including nape to eyes ; the depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2.2 times in head and about 0.8 of its own 

 length ; the caudal pointed, a little longer than head, 3.16 times 

 in length; the first dorsal low, of the depth, the middle spines 

 longest and reaching base of second dorsal ray when depressed ; 

 the spines of second dorsal of nearly uniform height, the next 

 to the last posterior ray longest, reaching well on to caudal when 

 depressed and equal to depth; the anal similar but lower, its 

 posterior ray f of the depth and reaching base of caudal when 

 depressed; the pointed pectoral is as long as head and extends 

 back to anterior part of anal ; the ventrals are pointed and reach 

 origin of anal. 



The color in alcohol uniform yellowish, with a row of six large 

 brown spots on lower half along each side ; each scale on upper 

 half of body marked by a black dot, these forming longitudinal 

 rows ; a dark brown line crosses interorbital and iris and extends 

 below eye across cheek, where it is intersected by two short 

 lines which meet behind it; the dorsals, pectoral, and caudal 

 crossmarked by bars or small spots of brown ; the anal colorless, 

 the ventrals dusky. 



Here described from a specimen, 38 millimeters long, collected 

 at Polillo by E. H. Taylor. Another specimen, 30 millimeters 

 long, from Nalvo, Luna, La Union Province, was whitish, the 

 markings about as above; the anal was boldly marked with al- 

 ternate rows of deep black and milk-white spots, two rows of 

 each kind. 



A fresh specimen, collected by Alvin Scale and drawn by T. 

 S. Espinosa, was yellow, shading t>ff to bluish white on the belly, 

 with the scales of the head and trunk punctulated with groups of 

 fine dots and a row of large brown spots along the lower half of 

 the side ; on the lower part of the iris was a red spot, and in a 



