. Bulletin - United States National Museum. nermis (Alcock), showing a similar armature, a greatly longerpectoral and a much longer detached pectoral ray, details doubtlessof specific value. (irapa, near+Minous.) 8 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, p. 63, 1938. »Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 58, pt. 2, p. 299, pi. 22, fig. 4, 1889 (type locality:Bay of Bengal). NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER PARAMINOUS QUINCARINATUS, new speciesFlGUBE 13 69 Depth 3; head 2*4, width iy2. Snout broad, depressed forwardwith front snout end forming well below level of eye or orbit, lengthto eye (in profile) 2% in h
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. nermis (Alcock), showing a similar armature, a greatly longerpectoral and a much longer detached pectoral ray, details doubtlessof specific value. (irapa, near+Minous.) 8 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, p. 63, 1938. »Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 58, pt. 2, p. 299, pi. 22, fig. 4, 1889 (type locality:Bay of Bengal). NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER PARAMINOUS QUINCARINATUS, new speciesFlGUBE 13 69 Depth 3; head 2*4, width iy2. Snout broad, depressed forwardwith front snout end forming well below level of eye or orbit, lengthto eye (in profile) 2% in head measured from snout tip; eye 5, 1% insnout, l3/7 in interorbital, close to but not entering upper profile ofhead; orbit 314 in head measured from upper jaw tip; maxillaryreaches halfway below eye, expansion equals eye, length 2% in headmeasured from snout tip; mouth large, broad, little inclined fromhorizontal, lower jaw slightly protruding in front; teeth in villiformbands in jaws, band above much broader; similar band transversely. Figure13.—Paraminous quincarinatus, new species: Type ( No. 99515). across vomer, constricted medially; interorbital 3%, concavely de-pressed. Gill opening large, extends forward opposite middle ofeye. Gill rakers 4+9, clavate, robust, long as gill filaments, whichare % of orbit. Armature of head quite robust, with many ridges finely serrate orrugose and spines broad, low and strong; pair of broad low nasalspines; supraorbital spines little differentiated as antero-preorbitalpair and two close-set postero-supraorbital pairs; nuchal and supra-occipital pairs low, with last better developed; three or four pre-orbitals, last best developed and directed downward; spines on sub-orbital stay irregular and low; preopercle with five spines, first below 70 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM smallest and directed down; two small rather closely set short oper-cular spines, directed back. Body scaleless. On back small, incon
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