504 SBALB. 



tile forehead has an abrupt curve, formed by the pronounced ocular- 

 ridges; intei'orbital space deeply concave; opercles with numerous fin- 

 shaped striae, which radiate from a single larger longitudinal ridge; 

 ten distinct ridges in the interorbital space which unite and form one 

 on the snout, this ridge has a few small spines; the orbital ridge is also 

 spinate; rings of body and tail without spines; length of dorsal rays 

 less than width of opercle. 



Color brown, the three anterior caudal rings lighter, the ventral 

 surface of body rings and opercles brown, with the yellow cross lines 

 on their under surface, these cross lines not extending on body rings; 

 snout brown above and white below. A brown ring near the tip, fins 

 grayish without markings. 



Type is No. 2324 from Balayan Bay, Ijuzon, 20 January, 1908. 

 Length, 140 millimeters. 



Family HOLOCENTRIDxE. The Squirrel Fishes. 

 Myripristis schultzei Seale, sp. iiov. (Baga baga.) 



Head 3.10; depth 3.60; dorsal X, I, 15; anal III, 13; scales 28 to 

 end of vertebra, 10 in vertical series; eye large, 2 in head; snout 7.50; 

 interorbital space 3.30; "maxillary 1.80, its posterior tip ending on a" 

 line with posterior margin of pupil, width of distal end 2 in eye; 

 mandible 1.60 in head; pectorals 1.25; ventrals 1.45. 



Body oblong, compressed, greatest w-idth at origin of dorsal. Upper 

 and lower outlines of body about equal. L«ngth of caudal peduncle 2.50 

 in head, its depth 3.10. Depth of head about equal to its length, its 

 greatest width 1.50 in its length; interorbital space flat with 4 longi- 

 tudinal ridges. The anterior outline of head is bent rather abruptly 

 down in front of eyes making a short blunt snout, the length of which 

 is 2 in its width. The groove to receive the maxillary process ends on 

 a line with anterior of eye. Preorbital is narrow and denticulate, 

 its greatest width 3 in interorbital space ; opercular bones are denticulate, 

 the opercle has a single flat spine on its posterior margin, maxillary with 

 small teeth on its lower posterior border. Mouth large, oblique, lower 

 jaw slightly the longest. Four distinct pores on tip of lower jaw; 

 bands of villifomi teeth in jaws, vomer, palatin, and on hyoid portion 

 of tongue. A few large exterior teeth on the outside of each jaw, more 

 abundant and larger on lower jaw. Gill openings ver\' large being 

 carried forward to below anterior margin of pupil. Gill rakers rather 

 long, about T30 on lower arch, the longest 2 in eye. Pseudobranchia 

 present. 



Scales are large and toothed ; body fully scaled ; head naked except 

 about 3 rows of scales on cheeks ; ventral with distinct axillary seale. 



Origin of dorsal fin midway between tip of snout and third anal ray. 

 Fourth spine the longest, 1.85 in head. Anal and soft dorsal similar, 



