. Bulletin - United States National Museum. m bands in jaws, upperband little broader; broad bands of villiform teeth on vomer andpalatines; bony interorbital width % of eye or 8% in head as measuredfrom snout tip; preorbital with 2 spines, both directed backward andupper much longer; 4 spines along hind edge of preopercle, upper-most largest. Gill opening large, deeply cleft and extends forwardopposite middle of eye. Gill rakers 3 + 6, rather robust, tuberculiform,barely half long as gill filaments which are 2% in eye. KEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 71 No scales. Skin smooth, entire, without an
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. m bands in jaws, upperband little broader; broad bands of villiform teeth on vomer andpalatines; bony interorbital width % of eye or 8% in head as measuredfrom snout tip; preorbital with 2 spines, both directed backward andupper much longer; 4 spines along hind edge of preopercle, upper-most largest. Gill opening large, deeply cleft and extends forwardopposite middle of eye. Gill rakers 3 + 6, rather robust, tuberculiform,barely half long as gill filaments which are 2% in eye. KEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 71 No scales. Skin smooth, entire, without any flaps or line complete, high, mostly concurrent with upper profile ofbody. D. XV, 9, edge of spinous fin deeply notched terminally behindeach spine, first spine 6 in total head length, second spine 2y8, last spine31/3, third ray 2%; A. 8, first ray 6y5, fifth ray 2%; caudal 1%, convexbehind; least depth of caudal peduncle 5; pectoral l1/?, with 13 simplerays; ventral rays I, 5, rays bifid, fin 1% in total head Figure 14.—Ocosia gracile, new species: Type ( No. 99513). Color in alcohol pale gray above, whitish below. Six large darkgray blotches on back, of which five extend on vertical fins and sixthreflected on upper posterior part of second dorsal. Caudal with darkbasal bar and dark submarginal band concurrent with hind with large dark basal blotch, two small spots above andbroad hind submarginal band. Two dark transverse bands on ven-tral. Head with variable dark spots on side. Differs from Ocosia vespa Jordan and Starks 10 in the lower body,lower dorsal, longer maxillary and different coloration. Type.— No. 99513. D. 4903. Ose Saki Light, N. 22°E.,6 miles (lat. 32°3110 N., long. 128°3320 E.), 10 to 20 miles SW. ofGoto Islands, Eastern Sea. In 139 fathoms. August 10, 46 mm. Paratype.— No. 99514. D. 4903. Ose Saki Light, N. 22°E., 6 miles (lat. 32°3110 N., long. 128°332
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