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when depressed; the second dorsal and anal similar in shape, 

 high, the posterior rays longest, extending beyond base of cau- 

 dal when depressed, 0.875 as long as head and 3.66 in length, 

 as is also the narrow pointed pectoral ; the narrow ventrals have 

 a wide, thin frenum and extend to the very small pointed anal 

 papilla, their length 1.4 in head and 4.4 in total length; the 

 caudal peduncle is 2.8 times in head and 1.6 times in its own 

 length; the much elongated and very narrow caudal 0.5 the 

 total length. 



The color in alcohol is uniform yellowish, with a large dark 

 brown blotch on upper part of opercle; the pupil of eye white; 

 the membrane between first, second, and third spines of first 

 dorsal deep black; between fifth and sixth spines is a large 

 black spot on basal part of membrane; the remainder of the 

 fin is minutely specked with dusky, the basal half of the spines 

 black; the second dorsal and anal have a blackish margin, their 

 membranes gray with minute dusky specks ; the caudal brownish, 

 becoming dusky toward tip, the ventral blackish, the pectoral 

 colorless. 



Here described from the type, 44 millimeters long, of unknown 

 origin, but from Mindoro or Mindanao. 



Since writing the above a specimen, 35 millimeters long, has 

 been collected at Iloilo by Mr. H. R. Montalban. The snout 

 has been partly destroyed, but it is the same species as the type. 



Vagus, wandering or vagrant. 



119. CRYPTOCENTRUS VENUSTUS Seale 



Cryptocentrus vennstus SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. D 9 (1914) 76, 

 pl. 2, fig. 2. 



Dorsal VI, 1-9; anal I, 10; about 90 scales in a longitudinal 

 series, about 27 in a transverse series, and about 20 before first 

 dorsal. 



The head and body laterally compressed, the depth 5.5, the 

 head 3.75 times in length; the head strongly convex, a little 

 broader than body, its width nearly f of its depth, which is 

 f of its length; the snout very steep, shorter than eye, 5 times 

 in head ; the large circular eyes very high up, lateral but looking 

 upward as well, 4.2 times in head, close together, the interor- 

 bital space 3 times in an eye diameter; the mouth large, the 

 gape extending to posterior margin of the large pupil, the pos- 

 terior angle of maxillary extending beyond posterior margin 

 of eye; there are five rows of teeth in each jaw, those of outer 

 row widely spaced and slightly enlarged, those of inner row 



