[SCIENTIFIC RESULf S OF THE PHILIPPINE CRUISE OF THE FISHERIES STEAMER "ALBATROSS," 1907-1910.— No. 16.1 NEW PEDICULATE FISHES FROM THE PHHJPPINE ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS. By Lewis Radcliffe/ Scientific Assistant, United States Bureau of Fisheries. In the present paper are described a new j^enus and 16 new species of pedieulate fishes collected by the U. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross on the Philippine expedition. All of the species described are herein represented by illustrations made from drawings or photographs. The types have been deposited in the United States National Museum. Family LOPHIID^. SLADENIA REMIGER Smitb and Radclifie, new species. Plate 16, fig. 1. Dorsal ii-i, 10; caudal 8; anal 7; ventral i, 5; pectoral 20. Head large, arched, less depressed than in other lophiids, length measured to anterior margin of gill-opening 2.54 in total length, breadth 1.12 in its length (2.85 in total length), depth 1.54 in its length; body tapering, deeper than broad, ventral surface a little flat-tened; caudal peduncle short, deep, depth 4.50 in head, length 4.91; eye 6, small, 1.33 in snout; snout 4.50, lateral depressions shallow; mouth moderate, lower jaw projecting about two-thirds diameter of eye beyond upper; maxillary 2.16, reaching vertical from posterior margin of eye; mandible 1.66; nasal tube well developed, apertures opposite one another, tiie posterior not opening on tip of tube as in Lopliiodes, upper margin bearing several small filaments; interorbital 6.20, nearly as wide as eye, slightly concave, smooth; preorbital spine represented b}' a slight knoblike structure covered with skin; upper orbital rim armed with a small blunt spine anteriorly and a long slen-der, sharp spine posteriorly ; occipital spine relatively stout ; opercular ' In the study of this collection the WTiler has been associated with Dr. Hugh M. Smith, who becomes joint author of the new genus and species herein described. • Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 42— No. 1896. 199
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