NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 515 



palatine or tongue. The jaws are equal, the maxillary ends on a line with 

 anterior nostril, its. end is fully hidden by preorbital. The mandible 

 ends on a line with posterior nostril. Gill openings are of moderate size 

 Being carried forward to a line with middle of eye. Gill rakers are 

 thick and short 5 on lower limb, the longest about one-fourth of pupil. 

 Pseudobranchia present. 



Body fully covered witli rather large smooth scales which are very 

 slightly denticulate on margins. Fins are unsealed, except pectorals 

 which are slightly scaled at base. Head is naked except on opercles, 

 with a small patch of scales behind and posterior to the eye, another 

 small patch postei-ior to, and slightly above eye. 



Origin of dorsal is one spine anterior to a line with axil of pectorals; 

 fourth dorsal sj)ine the longest, 3 in head, the spines received into 

 a sheath, longest dorsal ray 2.50 in head. 



The second anal spine is strongest, the third is the longest being 3.10 

 in head, longest anal ray 3.75, origin of anal is on a line with the second 

 dorsal ray. Origin of ventrals midway between tip of snout and fifth 

 anal ray. Tip of \'entrals reaching to anal pore. Pectorals extend to 

 a line with origin of anal. Caudal deeply emarginate, its length 1.35 

 in head, its shortest ray 3.10 in head. 



Color, in life rather a dark greenish with 7 or 8 irregular darker 

 vertical bars over back and down on sides. Vertical fins marked with 

 bars of dark green. 



Color in alcohol yellowish, with slight shades of greenish, about 8 

 irregular darker greenish bars extending over back and down on sid.es 

 to ventral surface, these bars much less than the interspaces, the bands 

 are more or less broken at the lateral line but are continuous below it, 

 there is on the second of these bands above middle of pectoi-als and 

 below the lateral line an intensified dusky area or blotcli, scarcely distinct 

 from coloring of bands. Head is brownish with tint of green, there 

 is a darker band easily overlooked, from lower half of eye down to 

 posterior end of mandible; posterior margin of opercle darker. A 

 darker green line at base of pectorals. A mottling of darker green on 

 the membrane at base of each dorsal spine, each ray of soft dorsal and 

 anal is crossed by one or two darker green blotches. Caudal has three 

 or four darker green vertical bars. Ventrals are crossed by three bars 

 of darker green, pectorals white. 



Type is No. 4678, taken at Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago, P. I., 

 11 July, 1908. Length, 310 millimeters. Cotype N"o. 4680. 



Lethrinus atkinsoni Seale, sp. nov. Plate XI. (Ciitambak.) 



Head 3.90; depth 2.50; dorsal X, 9; anal III, S; scales 5-48-13; 

 eye 3; snout 3; interorbital space 1.45 in eye (bony part only measured) ; 

 maxillarj^ 3.50 in head; mandible 3.10; pectorals equal to head; 

 ventrals 1.45. 



