NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 511 



Family HiEMFLID.^. 

 Plectorhynchus doanei iSeale, sp. iiov. 



Head 3; deptli 2.40; dorsal XI. 20; anal III, 8; scales about 75; 64 

 pores in lateral line; about 30 scales in vertical series; eye 3; snout 3; 

 interorbital space 4; maxillary 3.7.5, scarcely reacliing; to anterior margin 

 of eye; mandible 2.7.5. 



Body is oblong, compressed, tbe upper outline with nnick stronger 

 curve than lower, the greatest depth is at origin of ventrals. Depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2.75 in head, its length 1.80. 



The anterior profile from origin of dorsal to end of snout is a strong 

 curve, the snout however is almost straight and at an angle of more than 

 45°. Mouth small, lips thick, with fold. Teeth of upper jaw mostly 

 anterior in several rows, small, sharp pointed. Teeth of lower jaw 

 similar, except that those on sides of jaws are in single series. ISTo teeth 

 on vomer or palatine. Posterior margin of preopercle rather strongly 

 denticulate. A rather deep notch on posterior margin of opercle. Gill 

 openings wide, being carried forward to below anterior margin of eye. 

 Gill rakers short, fine, almost hair-like, 36 on lower limb. Pseudobranchia 

 present. Entire body and head, including also bases of all the soft fins 

 covered with fine ctenoid scales. Origin of dorsal midway between tip 

 of snout and base of si.xtli dorsal ray. The third or foui-th spine longest, 

 1.75 in head, the eighth, ninth and tenth spines are shorter than the first 

 spine, being less than length of snout. Longest dorsal ra}- 1.35 in h(':i(1. 

 Origin of anal midway between end of last caudal ^•ertebra and the 

 middle of base of pectorals, its base 2.50 in head, its second spine is 

 much the longest and strongest, its length 1.75 in head, the longest ray 

 1.40 in head. Caudal forked, 1.1 in head, its lobes rounded; ventrals 

 nearer to angle of moutli than to anal, theii- length 1.10 in head ; pectoi'als 

 equal to head. 



Color in life orange red with about 7 large while areas margined with 

 black, the anterior one occupies the snout, the second the nuchal 

 region, extending down to opercles on each side but not to base of dorsal, 

 the third occupies a region from origin of gill openings to, and including 

 base of ventrals and obliquely up to eye, there is a square red band in 

 the middle of this area across the thorax. There is a dark ocular band 

 about width of eye down from eye around base of lower jaw, the fourth 

 white area is a round spot back of, and above, base of pectorals, the fifth 

 is below seventh to ninth dorsal spines and includes these spines, the 

 sixth just above and includes the origin of anal, the seventh is an 

 oblique white ring occupying the outer two-thirds of caudal peduncle. 

 The posterior two-thirds of caudal is white with an oblong dusky patch 

 on each lobe, the sixth and seventh white areas have an indistinct round 

 dusky spot in the center. The soft dorsal is dusky with margins oi' 



