118 SEALE. 



dorsal with the three anterior rays elongate, greater than length of 

 head; first dorsal spine very minute, the second 1.30 in eye, the third 

 and fourth the longest, 1.85 in head; origin of anal .midway between 

 base of caudal and posterior margin of eye, its second spine equal to 

 width of orbit, its longest ray 1.75 in head; origin of ventrals on a line 

 with origin of first dorsal, its rays reaching anal spines, its length 1.30 

 in head; pectorals 1.50 in head. 



General color in alcohol mars-brown; yellow on belly; margins of the 

 scales on sides above belly are shaded with minute brown dots. There 

 is a very indistinct indication of five or six narrow dark stripes on the 

 middle of the rows of scales anteriorly, scarcely to be distinguished in 

 the cotypes ; no marking on head ; a brownish blotch on base of pectorals ; 

 a small black dot on base of caudal just above the lateral line, one of 

 the cotypes is without dot. Dorsal fin grayish, the spinous dorsal 

 slightly darker on margin; caudal yellowish, the margin grayish; anal 

 yellowish at base shading into grayish on outer half; ventrals yellowish, 

 their margins grayish ; pectorals yellowish. 



Type, ISTo. .5701 in collection Bureau of Sidence, from Bantayan 

 [sland, P. I. Length, 125 millimeters. Cotypes, Xos. 5(]9G and 5698, 

 from same locality. Length, 124 and 135 millimeter?. 



Xamed in honor of Dr. L. E. Griffin, the collector. 



