512 SEALE. 



rays white and a wliite spot near middle of fin. Anal is dusky at base, 

 broadly margined with white, with some diisl^y blotches at tip. Ventrals 

 black, with a white spot on anterior ray. Pectorals black with white tips. 



Color in alcohol similar to above, except that the orange fades into a 

 light brown, the black margins to the white areas remain very distinct. 



Type is No. 4760 from Sitanki Fsland. Jolo Archipelago, 15 July. 

 1908; lengtli, 40 iiiillinioters : ali^o a spceiincii Xn. IfjO.") from Caga- 

 yan, Mindanao. 



Family TMKHAPOiX I J)/K. The Grunts. 

 Dentex filiform is Sfuli', sp. iiov. Plate IX. 



Head 3.75; depth 4.15; dorsal X, 9; anal 111, 7 ; scales 3-47-lG ; eye 

 3 in head; snout 3.10; interorbital space equal to eye; maxillary 3: 

 mandible 2.35: pectorals 1.25 in head: \entrals 1.30; depth of caudal 

 ])eduncle 3. 



Body moderately elongate, oblong, compressed, of about equal depth at 

 oi-igiu of ])ectorals and at anal pore; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 

 in head. 



Head somewhat coiucal, the profile from nape to snout evenly curved, 

 the interorbital space is moderately convex. Gieatest width of head 

 1.85 ill its length. Snout rounded, its width at anterior nostril equal 

 to its length; Jaws equal, the uppei' moderately protractile, each jaw 

 with a rather wide fold or lip. Maxillary fully hidden except at its tip. 

 premaxillary scarcely reaching to eye, preorbital notched at angle of jaw. 

 its widtli at this point equal to pupil, no spine on its posterior margin. 

 Lower jaw with two distinct pores on each side, mouth wide, slightly 

 oblique. Curved canines in each jaw, with patches of inner villifonu 

 teeth anteriorly, the fourth anterior canine of upper jaw largest. No 

 teeth on vomer, palatine, or tongue. Preopercle fully serrated, opercle 

 with a single rather distinct spine; five rows of large scales on clieeks. 

 Head, except snout, preorbital, and under jaw. fully scaled. Gill 

 opening wide, being carried forward to a line with middle of eye. Gill 

 rakers consisting of short, thick asperit«s, about 4 on low-er limb. 

 Pseudobranchia present. Eyes quite large. 



Scales small and ctenoid, the rows ninning horizontally on upper third 

 of fish and obliquely below, body fully scaled; five distinct lows of scales 

 on cheeks with the addition of a few scattered scales at margin of orbit. 



Dorsal fin continuous, the spines weak, the fourth and fiftli spines the 

 longest, 2.50 in head, the longest ray 1.95 in head, the fin is providtd 

 with a distinct groove into which it fits, its origin is directly above the 

 axil of pectoral. Origin of anal on a line with base of second dorsal 

 ray and is midway between end of caudal vertebra and origin of ventrals. 

 the anal spines are graduated, the third being 3.75 in head, longest ray 

 2.75, base of fin 1.90 in head. Origin of venti'als slightly nearer tip of 



