NEW SPECIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHES. 523 



graduating line through the lower half of soft dorsal, general color of 

 soft dorsal, pale yellowish, caudal yellowish with tint of green, the upper 

 and lower rays green with the second ray a heavy brownish red. Anal 

 pale yellowish, ventrals pinkish, pectorals washed with yellowish at base 

 and slightly dusky at tip. 



Color in alcohol similar to above, except the bluish below fades into 

 whitish, the deep green on dorsal and between the purple bars fades and 

 becomes dull bluish, the stripes on head brown-purplish, the anal shows 

 a dusky blotch on middle of anterior rays. 



Type is No. 4582 from Sitanki Island, Jolo Archipelago, P. I., 2 

 July, 1908. Length, 112 millimeters. 



Choerops palawanensis Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 3 ; depth' 2.80 ; dorsal XIV, 7 ; anal III, 10 ; scales 38 ; 11 scales 

 in vertical series; eye 6; snout 3.35; interorbital 5.50; cheeks with about 

 6 rows of imbricate scales. 



Body oblong, compressed, the upper outline more inunded than lower. 

 Depth of caudal peduncle 2.35 in head. 



ITpper profile of head a strong even curve back to origin of dorsal. 

 Interorbital space convex. Greatest depth of head 1.14 in its length; 

 mouth rather large, the upper jaw protractile. Lips thick, with fold, 

 four strong projecting canines in the front of each jaw, a canine at angle 

 of upper jaw. Posterior margin of preopercle is finely denticulate. 

 Lower limb of pieopercle naked. Cxill openings moderate, ending on a 

 line slightly posterior to eye. Gill rakers thick, sharp-pointed, short, 

 about 8 on lower limb. 



The scales arc large and smooth, fully covering head and body except 

 top of head, snout, limb of preopercle, and chin. Tubules of lateral line 

 strongly branched. 



Origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of 12th dorsal 

 spine, the longest spine 3.50 in head, its posterior rays the longest, 2.50 

 in head. Base of anal 1.15 in head, its posterior ray 2.20, origin of anal 

 is midway between last caudal vertebra and angle of preopercle. Origin 

 of ventrals midway between anal and angle of mouth, the anterior rays 

 elongate, reaching to base of anal. Pectorals 1.25, ending on a line 

 with 12th scale of lateral line. Caudal slightly lunate, 1.15 in head. 



Color in life. General color brownish above, whitish below, margins 

 of the scales drab. An oblong bright yellow patch on sides under 

 posterior third of spinous dorsal, a row of about five black spots along 

 the median line, sides of head greenish with tint of yellow, the color below 

 this is blue, a red line back from angle of mouth marks the meeting of 

 these two colors, four greenish lines on sides of snout from eye to mouth, 

 about 6 oblique yellow lines on opercle, three red lines on lower jaw, two 

 rows of dusky dots near base of dorsal iiti. Dorsal blue with about 4 

 irregular rows of red dots tending to form broken vertical lines on 



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