NEW SPECIES OP PHIIJITINE FLSHKS. 501 



except those caused by the small ridge iilong wntvv of scales. A 

 distinct black dot at axil of pectorals. 



Type is No. 3379. Secured by the writer at Join, Jolo island, V. 1., 

 February, 1908. Length, 125 millimeters. 



This species is related to M. laUosiis C. & V., but M. laUosus has 

 "upper lip without fringe." Our species has fewer scales, and the upper 

 third of dorsals dusky, our species has teeth on vomer and palatine. 

 Mugil banksi Seale, sp. nov. Plate V. (Banak.) 



Head 4.50; depth 3.50; dorsal IV, 9; anal III, 9; seiiles 37, 10 in 

 vertical series; eye 3.10 in head, the exposed portion 4; snout 5; 

 interorbital space ,-.' ; maxillary is entirely hidden ; mandible 9 in head ; 

 preorbital with shallow notch, its end but slightly denticulate, its width 

 at end 1.30 in pupil; pectorals equal to head; ventrals 1.30. 



Body moderately elongate and compressed, the upper and lower 

 outlines being about evenly curved to the short blunt snout. Tip of 

 head formed by the deep upper lip. Caudal peduncle is thick and 

 strong, its depth 1.2.5 in its length measured to vertical dorsal axil. 



The head from the blunt snout is rounded conical; interorbital space 

 convex. Eye is large with the adipose lid developed as a narrow fringe 

 to orbit and not covering more than a third of the iris before and 

 behind. Greatest width of head 1.45 in its length being almost equal 

 to its greatest depth, width of snout is equal to twice its length and is 

 much more than its depth. An elongate shallow depression on upper 

 sides of snout containing the two nostrils, the posterior one much the 

 larger. Upper lip thick, with two distinct rows of papilla?, these 

 becoming united into little folds near the corners of the mouth. Lower 

 lip thin, without papillis. No teelli in jaws or mouth. Gill openings 

 extend foi-ward to below posterior margin of pupil, (iill rakers ai-e 

 short slender and numerous. The two margins of the subopercles 

 fitting closely below, the space between them being confined to a short 

 narrow line anteriorly. The mandibles cover the entire chin. 



Head and body including soft fins scaled. The scales of body large, 

 smooth, thin, margined with a thin soft membrane. A short narrow 

 groove in the center of each scale, about 90 scales in front of dorsal fin 

 and 13 series between the origins of the two dorsals. A distinct axillary 

 scale at pectoral and ventral. Anal with scaly sheath. Five soft 

 differentiated areas on tlie margin of the preopercle between the marginal 

 scales. 



Origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout and end of last 

 caudal vertebra, length of first spine 1.50 in head; origin o! soft dorsal 

 very little nearer origin of spinous dorsal than to end of caudal vertebra, 

 being on a line with the third anal ray, its longest ray 1.30 in head. 

 Origin of anal slightly nearer end of caudal vertelna than to axil of 

 ventrals. The longest ray equal to longest ray ol' soft dorsal, base of 



