'):M) sbale. 



Labracinus flavipinnis Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 3.50; depth 3.75; dorsal 1 1, "dO; anal III, 10; scales 3G, lateral 

 line interrupted; vertical series 10-J ; eye 3.10; snout 4.75; interorbital 

 equal to snout; maxillary 3.75, its distal end under anterior margin of 

 pupil. 



Upper and lower outlines of body evenly and equally cuiNed, depth of 

 raudal peduncle 1.75 in head, its length 'i in head. Head moderately 

 pointed. The loA\'er jaw slightly longer. Mouth oblique, small. Teeth 

 of upper jaw fine, in several bands, with about 6 enlarged anterior canines. 

 Teeth of lower jaw in a single series on sides with twn enlarged canines 

 and bands of small teeth in front. Teeth on voniei' and palatine. Srales 

 on cheeks in three rows; opercular and preopercidar margins entijc. (iill 

 openings wide, being carried forward to a line with ])o<terior margin of 

 orbit. Gill rakers thin, sharp-pointed, slinrt, about 12 on lower limb. 



Body and head, except snout and cliin, ciivci-ed with rather small 

 smooth scales, caudal scaled for half its length, other fiiis unsealed, about 

 ten rows of scales in front of dorsal. The two dorsal spines short, the 

 second being about half length of first ray, the longest ray about 2.10 in 

 head. The caudal is rounded, 1.30 in head. Origin of anal midway 

 between end of last caudal vertchra and a line with middle of opercle, 

 its rays about 2 in head. Origin of ventrals slightly in front of origin 

 of pectorals, being considerably nearer the tip of snout than to anal, its 

 length 1.14 in head. Pectorals 1.2."i. 



Tolor in life yellowish brown, darkest anti'iiorly, the posterior half 

 of body with some small vertical blue marks. Top of snout, interorbital 

 space and nuchal region back along base of spinous dorsal black. Lower 

 half of spinous dorsal jet black, the upper half orange, a narrow yellow 

 line between the colors. Caudal yellow, a jet black line extends from 

 along top of caudal peduncle into the fin where it forms a submarginal 

 wedge-shaped band ; anal and ventrals pink ; pectorals yellowish brown. 



Color in alcohol similar to aliove but less briglit. the bluish markings 

 obsolete. 



Type is No. 1410 from Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. L. 11 June, liins. 

 Length, 4(i millimeters. 



Family OHPHROMENIDiE. 

 Osphromenus insulatus Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 3.18; depth 2.75; dorsal VII. 8; anal XI, 32; scales about 45 in 

 lateral series, from 20 to 34 pores in lateral line which is very irregular, 

 in the type specimen the line is broken on one side and jumps 4 scales, 

 in some cotypes the line is broken in two or three places and jumps 

 several scales, in the type the lateral line has a distinct arch anteriorly 

 as in the carangoids, becoming more or less straight about the middle 



