DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF FISHES FROM 

 BANTAYAN ISLAND, PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. 



By Alvin Seale. 



{From the Section of Fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, Man 

 P. I.) 



Chaetodon carens Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 3.10; depth 1.75; eye 3.80 in head; snout 3.25; interorbital 3; 

 dorsal XIII^ 81; anal III, 17; scales 7-38-20, the scales are larger on 

 middle of sides; maxillary 4.50 in head, its distal end under nostril. 

 Body slightly more elongate than is usual in this genus, strongly com- 

 pressed, length of caudal peduncle 1.10 in its depth. Head of moderate 

 size, characterized by the large eye, and short pointed snout ; profile from 

 tip of snout to origin of dorsal forms an angle of about 45°, the line 

 from tip of snoiit to nuchal region is straight, slightly concave on the 

 shoulder; the depth of the fish at origin of dorsal 1.75 in length to end 

 of vertebra; origin of soft dorsal and origin of anal about on line. 

 Mouth small; teeth brush-like in several rovi's, slightly projecting; gill 

 openings wide, being carried forward to below eye; nostrils small, close 

 together, in front of eye; gill rakers few, short and weak; dorsal spines 

 rather long and saber-like, the third, fourth, and fifth the longest, the 

 fourth 1.30 in head ; dorsal and anal rounded ; the origin of anal midway 

 between middle of opercle and end of caudal vertebra; the second anal 

 spine is the strongest and equal in length to the third spine, its lejigth 

 1.50 in head; origin of ventrals midway between origin of anal and 

 middle of cheeks, its tip extending slightly past anal pore; pectorals 1.10 

 in head. 



Color in alcohol sepia-brown ; no ocu.lar band ; nuchal region and 

 top of head slightly darker, being a clove-brown; a wide black band on 

 middle of spinous dorsal extends back and occupies almost the entire 

 anal, except a narrow white tip and a small portion at the base of the 

 anal spines ; caudal yellow with a slight dusky wash on its posterior third ; 

 ventral brown with some indistinct yellowish blotches ; pectorals yellowish 

 white. 



Type, No. 6173 in collection of Bureau of Science, from Bantayan 

 Island, P. I. Length, 108 millimeters. 



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