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time a line is reached even with the origin of second dorsal; 

 the skin of head and anterior part dorsally finely rugose; the 

 vertical fins densely enveloped in thick skin in our specimens; 

 the dorsals widely separated, the base of first dorsal very short, 

 4 or 5 times in its height ; the first dorsal much elongated, the 

 central spine much the longest, 3.6 to 3.8 times in length, about 

 2.5 times the depth, the thick skin envelope often extending 

 to its tip; the very elongate second dorsal highest posteriorly, 

 the last ray often connected with caudal by a membrane, 3.33 

 times in head; the anal similar but a little lower, but never 

 connected with caudal, at least in my specimens, about 4 times 

 in head; the depth just before caudal about twice in greatest 

 depth of body; the lanceolate caudal sharply oblique on lower 

 margin, 3 times in length; the muscular pectoral base much 

 shorter than in our other representatives of this family, the 

 fin rounded, 1.66 to 1.9 times in head and 7.3 to 8.2 times in 

 length ; the pointed ventrals equal the pectorals and are contained 

 twice in the distance to anal papilla; in males this is small, 

 somewhat pointed ; in females it is very thick, subglobose. 



The color in alcohol slaty blue to brownish, paler to whitish 

 on belly, darker to brown dorsally; our specimens show no 

 trace of the green color mentioned by other authors; upon 

 head, both sides of pectoral bases, dorsals, and sides of body 

 are some small circular black spots widely separated ; on all our 

 specimens there are four to six short, transverse, brownish 

 black bars on lower half of each side, the first below interspace 

 between the two dorsals, the last approximately below middle 

 of second dorsal ; the upper part of caudal diagonally crossbarred 

 by numerous (eight or more) black bands or rows of closely 

 placed black dots, the lower part of fin white, its tip black. 



Here described from eight specimens in the Bureau of Science 

 collection ; they range in length from 86 to 102 millimeters, and 

 were collected by H. R. Montalban as follows : Seven at Navalas, 

 Guimaras, and one at Zarraga, Iloilo Province. 



The Bureau of Science collection also contains four very 

 fine specimens, 67 to 102 millimeters in length, collected by Light 

 at Amoy, China, in May, 1922. They are drab slate above; the 

 upper margin and tip of caudal are purplish slate; they lack 

 the lateral crossbands of the Philippine specimens. 



The only previous Philippine record is from southern Oriental 

 Negros, the specimens collected by Dr. Bashford Dean and 

 determined by Jordan and Seale. 



