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fleshy, firm. Teeth in rather broad villiform bands in jaws, none 

 on vomer, palatines or tongue. Inner buccal folds both rather 

 broad. Tongue large, thick, oblong, adnate, and front end rather 

 broadly truncate. Nostril small pore in depression at base of snout 

 close before eye, but not visible in superior view. Interorbital 

 deep narrow groove between elevated supraorbital ridges. 



Gill-opening entirely lateral, long as space between mandible tip 

 and front eye edge. Rakers 2+6, iii, lanceolate, slightly less than 

 filaments, and latter about half of eye. Isthmus broad, width 

 equals snout and half of eye. 



Scales large, ctenoid, moderately exposed, in even lengthwise 



Fig. 27. — Drombus maculipinnis sp. nov. 



rows. Caudal base scaly. Head scalj^, with numerous transverse 

 cutaneous narrow areas on cheek, side of head and snout. Cutaneous 

 flap each side of snout tip nearly equal to pupil in length. Fins 

 other than caudal apparently scaleless and without scaly flaps. 

 No 1.1. 



Spinous dorsal inserted little nearer mandible tip than last dorsal 

 ray base, first spines elongate, flexible and reach about f in second 

 dorsal base. Origin of soft dorsal much nearer caudal base than 

 hind eye edge, median and posterior rays little longer, and last ones 

 reach caudal base. Anal origin close behind dorsal origin, fin similar 

 to soft dorsal only smaller. Caudal elongate and ends in median 



