NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 493 



brown, the color fusing gradually with the yellowish of the under jaw 

 and throat. 



Type is No. 3781 from Samal Island, Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, P. I., 

 1 May, 1908. Length, 220 millimeters. 



Family OPHICHTHYIDvE. 

 Jenkinsella oliveri Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 5.10 in body; body 1.80 in tail; gape 1.75 in head; snout 5.76 in 

 head; eye 1.75 in snout; interorbital space about equal to eye; upper jaw 

 projecting beyond lower by a distance equal to eye ; upper lip well fringed ; 

 mouth large; mandible 2.50 in head. Teeth in lower jaw in two rows, 

 short sharp teeth, no canines. Teeth of upper jaw in two rows on sides, 

 the inner row being larger and depressible ; vomerine teeth in two series, 

 uniting posteriorly into one; a patch of 8 or 10 sharp teeth at tip of 

 upper jaw; no canines; posterior nostrils with an inflated membraneous 

 opening more or less fringed. Their location midway between eye and 

 anterior nostril; the anterior nostril is tube-shaped, near end of snout, 

 length about two-thirds length of eye. Several distinct pores on head, 

 one just above and in front of eye, another on middle posterior portion 

 of interorbital space. Origin of dorsal fin about the length of pectorals 

 in front of the gill openings and extending to tip of caudal, its longest 

 rays slightly more than half depth of body, pectorals 3.30 in head. 

 Origin of anal directly behind anal pore, it extends to tip of caudal, 

 no caudal fin. 



Color, light yellowish brown above, yellow below median line, belly 

 whitish, sides finely punctulate with minute black specks, throat white, 

 top of head brown, these two colors uniting in a sharp line on the middle 

 of side of head, extending from angle of fins to gill openings; tip of 

 snout and anterior portion of dorsal darker. 



Type is No. 4299 from Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. I., 2 June, 1908 : 

 Length, 360 millimeters. 



Moringua cagayana Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 8.75 in body to anal opening, the caudal being just one-third 

 of total length from tip of snout to tip of caudal; angle of mouth 4.50 

 in head; snout 8; eye 2.25 in snout; interorbital 1.10 in snout; pectorals 

 equal to distance from tip of snout to posterior of eye. Origin of dorsal 

 fin posterior to vent by a distance equal to the length from tip of snout 

 to tip of pectorals, its origin being over the anterior third of anal, the 

 fin is then high and distinct for about this same distance when it becomes 

 atrophied, reappearing again near tip of tail to form part of the paddle- 

 shaped end of caudal. The anal fin is similar to dorsal but its origin 

 is nearer the anal pore. Both the anal and dorsal widen at the end of 

 tail and unite with caudal forming a wide paddle or fin-like end to the 



