540 SICALE. 



space a mere ridge. Depth of carulal jieduucle 1 in head. Suoiit flat, 

 its median depth a1)0ut one-lialf its width. .Taw.s equal, the "iipper jaw 

 ptrotractile. Bands of short sharp teeth on each jaw, tliosc in anterior of 

 lower jaw largest, projeeling, brush-like. Preopercle armed with spine 

 described above, opercle nnaraied. Gill opening confined to a small 

 pore on dorsal sui-face just e.xterior to origin of lateral line. A roughened 

 plate with ten tuhei'cles on top of head posterior to eyes. Outline of 

 spinous dorsal almost square, the 1st to ;>rd rays elongate filifoi'in, longer 

 than the webbed portion, the longest dorsal ray is almost 2 in length of 

 fish without caudal, the origin of spinous dorsal is midway between tip of 

 snout and 3rd dorsal ray. Posterior ray of soft dorsal the longest 1.1 

 in head. Caudal lanceolate and elongate, the two median rays extremely 

 filiforni. Origin of anal slightly nearer tip of under jaw than to base 

 of caudal, its anterior ray being on a line with second ray of dorsal, its 

 longest ray equal to head. Ycntrals jugular, their base connected by 

 membrane with base of pectorals, their longest ray 3.-50 in body without 

 caudal. Pectorals about ecjual to head. 



Color in alcohol brownish abo\-e witlv numerous black specks and 

 line-like blotches, mingled posteriorly with small bluish white markings, 

 uniform yellowish white below the middle of side, belly bluish white. A 

 dark brown mark extending the length of throat beconung cross-shaped 

 on the thorax. Bi'anchiostegal membranes with numerous tine white 

 longitudinal wave-like lines. A dusky bar vertically downward from e^'es. 

 Spinous dorsal dusky, somewhat lighter on its upper and lower borders. 

 Soft dorsal white with numerous fine black broken lines and dots. Anal 

 white at base, outer half black, liordered ])y a fine white line. Caudal 

 with alternating white and black areas or bars. Ventrals grayish mottled 

 with line dots and lines. Pectorals with tine brownisli sf)ecks. outer 

 third of lower rays white. 



Type is No. 2317 from Balayan Bay, Luzon, P. I., 20 January, 1U08. 

 Length, 190 millimeters, and cotype from same locality, length, 160 

 millimeters. 



This species is quite ditferent from ('. Idiu/lcainldlis witli which I liava 

 comi^ared it. 



Synchiropus zamboangana Scuk', sp. nov. 



Head 3. TO; depth .5.20; dorsal W. S; anal 7: body and head without 

 scales, a single well-developed latei-al line; eye 4 in head; snout 3; inter- 

 orbital about equal to pupil; nuixillary slightly less than eye, its tip 

 scarcely reaching a line with eye; mandible 2.75 in head; preopercle with 

 a single strong spine directed backward with two small spines on its 

 interior side and two slightly larger spines directed forward on its outer 

 side, the tip of the large spine ends in a line with the gill o]ienings. 

 Villiforni teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatine. 



Body cylindrical, snout depressed and pointed, width of head almost 

 a third greater than its depth; depth of caudal pedtincle equal to suoat. 



