FISHES OF THK PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 

 162. Scolopsis luzonia .Tordan ct Scalo. 



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Thirteen specimens from Bacon (no. 3730 to 3733, 3403 to 3406, .3^29 to 3831, 4(101 and 4017- length 4 (o 

 6 m.), and one from San Fabian (no. .3332). A prominent .serrated ridge on maxillary. 



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163. Scolopsis monogrammus (Kuhl & Van Hasselt). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3277: length 5.85 in.). 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.S: eye 3.5 in head; snout 3; interorbital equals eve; scales .5-48-11, (i rows on 

 cheek. 



Color in spirits, yellowish: an indistinct dusky band almost width of eye from head to caudal. 



This species is close to 5. personatus, from which it differs in the greater depth, narrower interorbital, 

 smaller scales, and in having 6 rows of scales (instead of 5) on the cheek. 



Scolopsidcs monogramma Kuhl & Van Hasselt In Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. .Vat. Poiss.,v, 2.7,4(338) Java; (iunthcr, Cat., 

 Scolopsis monogramma, Bleaker, .Vtlas, vin, II, pi. cccx.x.w, flg. 3. 



164. Scolopsis bulanensis Evermann & Scale, new species. 



Head 3.25 in length; depth 3.3: eye 2.75 in head; interorbital 3.5; snout 3.55; dorsal x, 9; anal m, 7; 

 scales 4-43-10. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head; anterior profile of head slightly 

 convex above eyes; mouth rather small, jaws equal; maxillary 3.75 in head, its distal end not reaching to 



Fig. '5- — Scolop-st.'i bulanensis Evermann i: Scale, new species. Type. 



anterior margin of orbit; mandible 2.95 in head; teeth villiform in jaws and on vomer; preorbital width 3 

 in eye, with one strong spine above and 2 smaller ones below, the large one reaching slightly past middle of 

 eye; gillrakers consisting of blunt knobs, about 7 on lower arch; posterior margin of preopercle denticulate; 

 opercle with a single spine at its posterior margin; body fully scaled, 5 series on cheek; scales on top of head 

 minute, those on belly larger; vertical fins unsealed, but fitting into scaly sheath; origin of dorsal slightly 

 posterior to origin of pectoral, longest spine 2.75 in head, longest ray 2.75; origin of anal nearer origin of 

 ventrals than to base of caudal, its longest ray 2.7 in head, the second anal spine longest and .strongest, 2.5 in 

 head, base of anal 3.6 in base of dorsal; ventrals 1.3 in head, their tip falling far short of anal; pectoral 1.35 

 in head, scarcely reaching tip of ventrals; caudal forked. 



Color in spirits, dull yellowish brown; an indistinct dusky longitudinal hne on side; short oblique black 

 lines between pectoral fin and lateral lino; an oblong white blotch extending forward and downwar-. from 

 posterior axil of dorsal to near middle of body; a black spot at axil of pectoral, another on posterior portion 

 of opercle just in front of pectoral; fins unmarked. 



