NO. 1868. NEW FISHES FROM THE PHILIPPINES— RADCLIFFE. 441 



NEAMIA Smith and Radcliffe, new genus. 



Dorsal fins united, viii,i,9; anal ii,8; scales large, about 23, ctenoid, 

 lateral line complete; bands of small, villiform teeth on jaws; a few 

 scattered teeth on vomer, none on the palatines; margia of preopercle 

 entire ; fins rounded. 



This genus differs from Fowleria in having the dorsals united, the 

 first of 8 spines, and the lateral line complete, with none of the pores 

 rudimentary. 



Genotype. — Neamia octospina. 



NEAMIA OCTOSPINA Smith and Radcliffe, new species. 

 Plate 36, fig. 2. 



Dorsal viii,i,9; anal ii,8; scales 3 + 6-22. 



General form elhptical ovate, compressed; head 2.50, compressed, 

 dorsal outline comparatively straight, ventral somewhat convex; 

 body deep anteriorly, depth 2.50; caudal peduncle short, compressed, 

 depth 2.15, length 1.87; eye 3.80, small; snout 4, rather blunt; nos- 

 trils close to eye, not widely separated ; mouth large, nearly horizontal; 

 jaws subequal; maxillary 1.75, reaching beyond vertical from pos- 

 terior margin of eye; interorbital 5.60, narrow; margin of preopercle 

 smooth; bands of villiform teeth on jaws; a few scattered ^dlliform 

 teeth on vomer, none on palatmes; scales large, ctenoid, deciduous, 

 lateral line following curvature of back, continuous, pores weU 

 developed. 



Fins rounded; third dorsal spine longest and strongest, 2.24; the 

 eighth short, at a slightl}^ greater distance from spine of second dorsal 

 than from the one before it, connected with spine of second dorsal by 

 a low membrane; second dorsal liigh, median rays longest 1.72; 

 median caudal rays longest; anal similar to second dorsal 2.03; ven- 

 trals 1.87, tips reaching nearly to origin of anal; pectorals 1.40. 



Color in alcohol cream-buff; fins hyalin; traces of a dusky bar from 

 eye upward toward scapula, a second from eye to angle of preopercle. 



Type.— C'Sit. No. 70251, U.S.N.M., 3.7 cm. m length, from Rasa 

 Island, Mantaguin Bay, Palawan. 



Genus CHEILODIPTERUS Laeepede. 



In the species C. lineatus, quinquelineatus, and singajnirensis the 

 vent is more than a half-diameter of eye in advance of the anal. In 

 the two species herein described it is even more anterior, being nearer 

 base of ventrals than origin of anal and almost as far forward as m 

 Acropoma. 



