-NEW SPECIES OF I'HILIPI'INE FISHES. 511 



Family lI.KMnLID/K. 

 Plectorhynchus doanei Soale, sp. nov. 



Head 3; depth -.'.40; dorsal XI, v'O; anal ill, S; scales about 75; (It 

 23ores in lateral line; about 30 scales in vertical series; eye 3; snout 3; 

 interorbital space t; maxillary .'i.TT), scarcclj- reachiii.n- lo anterior margin 

 of eye; mandible 3.75. 



Body is oblong, compi-csscd, the iipjx'r outline with mudi stronger 

 curve than lower, the greatest depth is at origin of ventrals. Depth f)!' 

 caudal peduncle 2.';5 in head, its length 1.80. 



The anterior profile from origin of dorsal to end of snout is a strong 

 curve, the snout however is almost straight and at an angle of more than 

 45°. Mouth small, lips thick, with fold. Teeth of upper jaw mostly 

 anterior in several rows, small, sharp pointed. Teeth of lower jaw 

 similar, except that those on sides of jaws are in single series. .\o teeth 

 on vomer or palatine. I'osterior margin of preopercle rather strongly 

 denticulate. A rather deep notcli on posterior margin of opercle. Gill 

 openings wide, being carried forward to below anterior margin of eye. 

 Gill rakers short, fine, almost hair-like, 2tl on lower limb. Pseudobranchia 

 present. Entire body and head, including also bases of all the soft fins 

 covered with fine ctenoid scales. Origin of dorsal midway between li]) 

 of snout and base of sixth dorsal ray. The third or fourth spine longest, 

 1.75 in head, the eighth, ninth and tenth spines are shorter than the first 

 spine, being less than length of snout. Loiigesi doisnl ray ].>'>'> in heail. 

 Origin of anal midway between end of last caudal veitehi-a and the 

 middle of base of pectorals, its base ■2.50 in head, its second spine is 

 much the longest and strongest, its length 1.75 in head, the longest I'ay 

 1.40 in head. Caudal forked. 1.1 in head, its lobes rounded; ventrals 

 nearer to angle of mouth than to anal, their length l.H) in head ; pectorals 

 equal to head. 



Color in life orange red with about ": large white areas margined with 

 black, the anterior one occupies the snout, the second the nuchal 

 region, extending down to opercles on each side but not to base of dorsal, 

 the third occupies a region from origin of gill openings to, and including 

 base of ventrals and obliquely up to eye, there is a sc|uaie red band in 

 the middle of this area across the thorax. There is a dark ocular band 

 about width of eye down from eye around base of lower jaw, the fourth 

 white area is a round spot back of, and above, base of pectorals, the fifth 

 is below seventh to ninth dorsal spines and includes these spines, the 

 sixth just above and includes the origin of anal, the seventh is an 

 oblique white ring occupying the outer tw^o-thirds of caudal peduncle. 

 The posterior two-thirds of caudal is white with an oblong dusky patch 

 on each lobe, the sixth and seventh white areas have an indistinct round 

 dusky spot in the center. The soft dorsal is dusky with margins of 



