540 SEALE. 



space a mere ridge. Depth of caudal peduncle 4 in head. Snout flat, 

 its median depth about one-half its width. Jaws equal, the upper jaw 

 protractile. Bands of short sharp teeth on each jaw, those in anterior of 

 lower jaw largest, projecting, brush-like. Preopercle armed with spine 

 described above, opercle unarmed. Gill opening coniined to a small 

 pore on dorsal surface just exterior to origin of lateral line. A roughened 

 plate with ten tubercles on top of head posterior to eyes. Outline of 

 spinous dorsal almost square, the 1st to 3rd lays elongate filiform, longer 

 than the webbed portion, the longest dorsal ray is almost 3 in length of 

 fish without caudal, the origin of spinous dorsal is midway between tip of 

 snout and 3rd dorsal ray. Posterior ray of soft dorsal the longest 1.1 

 in head. Caudal lanceolate and elongate, the hvo median rays extremely 

 filiform. Origin of anal slightly nearer tip of under jaw than to base 

 of caudal, its anterior ray being on a line with second ray of dorsal, its 

 longest ray equal to head. A'entrals jugular, their base connected by 

 membrane with base of pectorals, their longest ray 3.50 in body without 

 caudal. Pectorals about equal to head. 



Color in alcohol brownish above with numerous black specks and 

 line-like blotches, mingled posteriorly with small bluish white markings, 

 uniform yellowish white below the middle of side, belly bluish white. A 

 dark brown mark extending the length of throat becoming cross-shaped 

 on the thorax. Branch] osteoal membranes with numerous fine white 

 longitudinal wave-like lines. A dus)\3' liar vertically downward from eyes. 

 Spinous dorsal dusky, somewhat lighter on its upper and lower borders. 

 Soft dorsal whit(= with numerous fine black broken lines and dots. Anal 

 white at base, outer half black, bordered by a fme white line. Caudal 

 with alternating white and black areas or bars. Ventrals grayish mottled 

 with fine dots and lines. Pectorals with fine bro^vnish specks, outer 

 third of lower rays white. 



Type is No. 2317 from Balayan P>iiy, Luzon, P. I., 20 January, 1908. 

 Length, 190 millimeters, and cotyp(? from same locality, length, 160 

 millimeters. 



This species is quite different from C. loiujiiandalis with which I have 

 compared it. 



Synchiropus zamboangana Seale, sp. ikiv. 



Head S.'iO; depth 5.20; dorsal I\', 8; anal 7 ; body and head without 

 scales, a single well-developed lateral line ; eye 4 in head ; snout 3 ; inter- 

 orhital about equal to pupil; maxillary slightly less than eye, its tip 

 scarcely reaching a line witli eye; mandible 2.7 5 in head; preopercle with 

 a single strong spine directed backward with two small spines on its 

 interior side and two slightly larger spines directed forward on its outer 

 side, the tip of the large spine ends in .a line with the gill openings. 

 Villiform teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatine. 



Body cylindrical, snout depressed and pointed, width of head almost 

 a third greater than its depth; depth of caudal peduncle equal to snout. 



