WAITEA 209 



The head and body laterally compressed, the dorsal profile 

 nearly horizontal, the depth 4.6 to 4.7 times in length; the head 

 very large, pointed when viewed laterally, 2.6 to 3 times in 

 length, its depth equal to or a little greater than that of body; 

 the snout convex, with a small median hump, 4.25 times in head ; 

 the eyes lateral, 3.5 to 4.25 in head, high up, the upper margin 

 of eye flush with profile, the narrow interorbital 4 times in 

 eye; the distance from tip of snout to posterior margin of eye 

 less than postorbital length of head; the mouth very large, 

 oblique,, the upper jaw very slightly projecting, the upper lip 

 protractile, the maxillary very long and produced backward 

 across cheek to lower corner of preopercle, though angle of 

 mouth is below pupil or posterior part of eye; the teeth as 

 given under the genus ; the body covered with moderately large 

 ctenoid scales posteriorly, which become much smaller and less 

 regularly disposed anteriorly ; the dorsals separated, the anterior 

 rays of first dorsal highest, equal to or slightly exceeding depth, 

 extending to second or third ray of second dorsal when de- 

 pressed; the second dorsal high, the sixth and seventh rays 

 produced most and filamentous, 1.15 to 1.3 times in head and 

 extending upon caudal more than of its length; the anal 

 shorter and lower than second dorsal, the posterior rays elon- 

 gated, equal to depth ; the caudal peduncle narrow and short, its 

 depth a little more than half the depth of body and about 1.28 

 times in its own length; the caudal moderately pointed, 1 -f- to 

 1.3 times in head; the pectoral pointed, the central rays elongate, 

 equal to or 1.2 times in head; the ventrals narrow, 1.35 to 1.7 

 times in head, extending to anus ; the anal papilla minute, very 

 thin in the male; in the female it is very short, thick, and 

 rounded. 



The color in alcohol yellowish gray, with broad dark cross- 

 bars, three showing distinctly on posterior half and running 

 diagonally forward and downward ; there are large circular spots 

 on the naked nape and extending back on each side below first 

 dorsal; the sides of head and pectoral bases sprinkled thickly 

 with oval or circular spots, largest on cheeks and very small 

 en pectorals; all these spots dark greenish olive; those on sides 

 of head are ocellated and were probably blue or pearl in life, 

 with a dark margin; small circular olive dots on sides beneath 

 pectoral ; the fins in our specimens are all black or violet-black. 



Here described from a male and a female specimen, 45 and 

 46 millimeters long, respectively, collected at Iloilo, Panay. 



