NEW Sl'ECIES OK PHILlI'l'INE FISHES. 407 



Preorbital with two or more distinct pores. Teetli in villiform bands in 

 jaws, a small patch of villiform teeth on vomer, back ol' (ongue, and 

 pterygoids ; the t.ype specimen has the vomer broken but the two cotypes 

 show teeth on the vomer; no teeth on palatine. (,'111 (ipeiiin^s wide. 

 Gill rakers long and slender, iweiity-five or more on lower areli. i'seiido- 

 branchia large. 



Scales large and smooth, their margins rounded and scarcely broken, 

 the scaling not extending on the head except on the occiput, no scales 

 on the fins except on base of caudal, but there is a distinct sheath of 

 scales for the soft dorsal and anal. Top and sides of head well furnished 

 with pores. A very large one just above opercles. There are sixteen 

 scales in front of dorsal fin, ten scales between the origin of the two 

 dorsals, and six scales along the base of the soft dorsal. 



The origin of the spinous dorsal is midway between end of caudal 

 vertebra and the anterior margin of eye, its longest spine is equal to 

 orbit, the spines are slender and pungent. Soft dorsal on a line witli 

 origin of anal, and much nearer tip of ventrals. or to spinous dorsal, 

 than to caudal; the second ray is longest being l.s,5 in head; anal 

 rays similar to soft dorsal, tlie longest being 2 in head. ( )ri,uin of ventrals 

 midway between end of maxillary and origin of anal. The anal pore is 

 located between the posterior third of the ventral fins. (Jaudal rather 

 large and deeply emarginate, the lower lobe being at least 1.40 in head. 

 Pectorals are above the median line of body. 



Color in alcohol is straw-yellow all the scales on upper half of body 

 more or less punctulate with fine black or bluish dots. These black dots 

 very thick on the middle of the three rows of scales on the back forming 

 a median dark line on its either side. A distinct silvery band occupies 

 the entire median row of scales on the side, the upper margin of this 

 band is of a dull lead color, a double row of small black dots separating 

 the two colors ; there is an additional row of \ ery minute black dots on 

 the row of scales below the silvery stripe. The lower third of body is 

 unmarked. Snout and rim of lower jaw washed with dusky, a distinct 

 dusky spot at upper anterior margin of opercle directly behind eye, a 

 dusky spot at upper axil of pectorals and a dusky bar across its inner 

 base; a dusky area just over and impinging on eye. Dorsal, anal, and 

 ventral fins uniform yellowish white. Pectoral with a distinct dusky 

 blotch occupying an area slightly greater than eye at the beginning of 

 the posterior third of fin ; the tip of pectorals and the basal third of most 

 of the rays white. Caudal slightly washed willi dusky, two more or 

 less distinct dusky blotches on its base. 



The type is No. 2082, in the collection of the section of fisheries. 

 Bureau of Science, Manila. It was secured by the writer at Culion 

 Island, P. I., 7 October, 1907. Length of type, 80 millimeters. Two 

 additional specimens No. 2083 \i-ere secured the following day at the 

 neicrhborino' island of Busuanga. 



