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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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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 scaly.
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Figure \Q.—Pentapodus lineoscapularis, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. 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, 1929.Lit. H. C. Kellers. Length 135 mm. (linea, line+scapula, scapula.) NEW PHILIPP

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