NO. 1853. FOUR NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES— RADCLIFFE. 247 



moderate, oblique, lower jaw slightly projecting; maxillary 1.89, 

 extending to vertical from posterior border of pupil; nostrils small, 

 %videly separated; interorbital 3.60, broad, nearly flat, a slight 

 depression on either side of median ridge; margin of preopercle 

 strongly serrate; intramarginal preopercular crest, subopercle, inter- 

 opercle and orbital bones smooth or with traces of a few weak den- 

 ticulations; scapula toothed; teeth villiform, in bands on jaws, 

 vomer and palatines ; tongue narrow, rounded, free, marginal portion 

 thin; peritoneum silvery white. 



Scales large, regular, of quite uniform size, deeper than long, 

 basal margin truncate, apical margin rounded; basal radial folds 

 rather numerous, about 15; denticulated area on apical margin 

 rather narrow. 



Origin of dorsal slightly posterior to vertical to base of pectoral, 

 spines of moderate size; first spine short 2.55 in the second, which 

 is longest and strongest, 1.82; origin of soft dorsal slightly anterior 

 to origin of anal, distal margin slightly concave, first ray longest, 

 1.20; caudal forked, shortened outer rays pungent, spinelike; second 

 anal spine much longer than the first, 2.12; first ray longest, 1.48; 

 margin of fin concave; ventrals reaching to behind vent, 1.64, distal 

 margin rounded, their base slightly in advance of vertical from 

 pectoral base; pectoral long, narrow, reaching base of second anal 

 spine, 1.19. 



Color in alcohol: Ground color dusky silvery w^hite with brownish 

 shades dorsally and dusky points ventrally; five broad dark reddish 

 brown stripes on sides and one along the middle of the back; the 

 latter extends from nape to origin of dorsal where it divides, reuniting 

 behind soft dorsal and ending at base of caudal, under dorsals and 

 on caudal peduncle it is broken up into a series of blotches, one to 

 each scale, becoming indistinct posteriorly; the fii'st lateral stripe 

 unites with its fellow on middle of snout and extends backward 

 over eye, above lateral line to base of caudal; a short bar or stripe 

 crosses upper part of eye and extends backward four scales from 

 opercle, bends sharply upward to lateral line, its upper margin 

 merging into the first stripe and ends or merges into the first stripe 

 on tenth scale of lateral line; the second stripe joins its fellow on 

 tip of snout, extends backward through middle of eye, along middle 

 of side to base of caudal peduncle; two short bars posterior to this, 

 above and below lateral line and a blotch just below and behind 

 first stripe; the third unites with its fellow on tip of mandible and 

 extends along lower margin of eye to upper pectoral base, then 

 breaks beginning again on side above pectoral and extending to 

 base of caudal; the fourth, narrower, extends from axil of pectoral 

 to last anal ray; the fifth, very narrow, extends from above base 

 of ventrals to above middle of anal; a slight duskiness, indicating 



