FISHKS OF THK PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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Color in spirits, dark brown; largo scatlrriil bine si)ol,s with lihick margins on head, thorax, bolly, and 

 fins I'xoopt spinous dorsal, which is dusky; no bars or spots on olhor portions of body, the spots on lius indis, 

 tinct, except on pectoral, where Ihey form rows; pectoral with « slight wash of yehovvish with ii lilack margin- 

 otherwise the tins all blackish without a trace of lighter maigius. 



This species is related to ('. (juttatuK, from whicli it (hlfors in the larger scales, longci- ventrals, smaller 

 eye, and in coloration. 



One line specimen from Bacon, no. .5,5911, U.S. National Museum (B. F. no. 3722), lengtli 7.r),in.; eolleetor 

 Charles J. Piei-son. 



We take pleasure in nauiing this species for our associate, Dr. \Vm. G. Kendall, of the U. 8. Bureau of 

 Fisheries. 



114. Cephalopholis bcenack (Bloeh). 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3S,5(i: length 5 in,). 



Bodianus barwck Bloch, Ichth., iv, 31, pi. cexxri, 1707. 

 Epinfphdiis bcenack, Boiilenger, Cat., i. isii 



115. Cephalopholis obtusauris Evermann & Scale, new species. 



Head 2. .55 in length; depth 2.S; eye 5.3 in head; snout 3!); interorbital 1.75 in snout; dorsal ix, 15; 

 anal in, 9; scales about 12-9.5-2(1, with 48 pores in lateral line. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 2.95 in head; body and head covered 

 with minute scales with rough margins; lateral line with a distinct curve above pectoral; head large; mouth 

 very large; maxillary 2 in head, its distal end under middle of eye, its width 1.3 in eye; mandible 1.S5; small 



Fig. 12.— Cephalopholis obtusauris Everniann & Scale, new species Type. 



teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines, outer series on upper jaw slightly enlarged, with 2 canines on each side 

 anteriorly, and with some enlarged dcpressible teeth posterior to them; a canine on each side of symphysis of 

 lower jaw, with a row of larger depressible teeth among the small ones on sides; 14 gillrakers on lower limb 

 (counting knobs), the longest equal to pupil; preopercle slightly rough; opercle with 3 spines, the lower one 

 a little anterior to the others, the upper one more removed from center one; opercular flap very obtusely 

 rounded, not ending in a sharp point; origin of dorsal fin on a line with axil of pectoral, and midway between 

 tip of snout and base of eighth dorsal ray: longest dorsal spine 3 in head, the anterior spine less than diameter 

 of eye; longest dorsal ray 2.3 in head; origin of anal slightly nearer base of ventral than to base of caudal, and 

 on a line with base of third dorsal ray; base of anal 2.4 in head, its longest ray 2 in head, the second anal spine 

 the strongest and slightly the longest; ventrals 1.75 in head, Ihi'ir tips reaching a little past \-cnt, but not to 

 base of anal fin; pectoral 1.3 in head, the tip on a line with origin of anal fin; caudal rounded, 1.75 in head. 



