. Bulletin - United States National Museum. 2; head dy2, width 1%. Snout conic, pointed, tip in frontlevel with lower edge of pupil, length 3% in head; eye 3y2, subequalwith snout or interorbital, not entering upper profile of head; maxil-lary reaches opposite front eye edge, length 314 in head; mouth mod-erate, little inclined from horizontal, jaws equal in front; teeth uni-serial in jaws, upper lateral uniform and small, lower laterals littleenlarged medially and pair of canines in front of each jaw; interor-bital 3% in head, low, broadly convex. Gill rakers 2 + 6, short, de- 64 BULLETIN 100


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. 2; head dy2, width 1%. Snout conic, pointed, tip in frontlevel with lower edge of pupil, length 3% in head; eye 3y2, subequalwith snout or interorbital, not entering upper profile of head; maxil-lary reaches opposite front eye edge, length 314 in head; mouth mod-erate, little inclined from horizontal, jaws equal in front; teeth uni-serial in jaws, upper lateral uniform and small, lower laterals littleenlarged medially and pair of canines in front of each jaw; interor-bital 3% in head, low, broadly convex. Gill rakers 2 + 6, short, de- 64 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM pressed, flaplike, terminally spinescent, equal % of gill filaments, whichare half of eye. Scales 41 in lateral line to caudal base; 3 above to first dorsal origin,2 above to second dorsal origin; 15 predorsal scales; four rows oflarge scales over cheek to preopercle ridge, besides row of small onesalong suborbital edge and three rows on preopercle flange. Basalhalf of caudal scaly, also pectoral base Figure \Q.—Pentapodus lineoscapularis, new species: Type ( No. 108465). D. X, 9, i, first spine 4 in head, fourth spine 2%, third ray 1T%; AIII, 6 i, third spine 3%, first ray 2; caudal 1, emarginate behind;least depth of caudal peduncle 22/5; pectoral U/3, rays 15; ventral raysI, 5, fin iy6 in head. Color in alcohol with back pale olive-brown and lower surfacesuniformly pale. Whitish longitudinal band from side of snout in-cluding lower fourth of eye, back over pectoral origin and base ofupper caudal lobe. A species apparently unique in its coloration as a white bandextends from the side of the preorbital, including the lower edge ofthe eye and then back along the middle of the side to the caudalpeduncle. Also a gray white bar or line from the beginning of thelateral line and vertically above the origin of the pectoral; whichhas a blackish spot. TiTT^f*MTN0 108465 noflo} Panay Island. May 9, H. C. Kellers. Length 135 mm.


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