368 DESCRIPTTOX OF SOME XEW QUEEXSLAXD FISHES, 



vomer, and tongue. Suborbital with a longitudinal ridge con- 

 tinued to the angle of preopercuhim. Scales large, bony, keeled, 

 forming a partial mail. Two dorsals, the first of partially webbed 

 spines. A'entrals reduced to a spine and a few feeble rays, the 

 spine articulated with a locking action. Eight branchiostegals. 

 Four gills, a slit behind the fourth. Air bladder large. Pyloric 

 coeca 2i. 



CLETDOPrS GLORIA- MAllIS. 



D. 4. 1/11. A. 1/11. L. lat. IG (from suprascapular) L. tr. 8 

 (from dorsal to last abdominal keel) — V. 1/4. P. 11. 



Height half the length measured to the tips of the median 

 caudal rays. Head one-third of the same. Orbit one-third of 

 the head, snout one- fifth, second dorsal spine two-fifths, and 

 ventral spme four-sevenths of same. Snout gibbous in front of 

 the orbit with a subvertical profile. Intermaxillaries separated 

 by a deep notch. Lower lip with a symphysial groove and a 

 (scarlet) patch of soft skin on the anterior lateral angle. Nostrils 

 contiguous, adjacent to orbit. Three spines on the abdominal 

 keel. Caudal strongly emarginate. All the scales spinosely 

 ctenoid and striated with a large median spinous keel. Bones of 

 the head unarmed. Dorsal spines strong, obliquely divergent, 

 with very low webs, second and third the longest, fourth longer 

 than first. Spine of second dorsal and anal short, feeble. Second 

 dorsal rounded, the rays shortening from the first which is the 

 longest. Ventral spine very strong, rays short, feeble. Lateral 

 line not distinguishable. Scales of hinder part of trunk white, 

 with broad dark edges all round, many of them on the post- 

 abdomen and caudal peduncle orange at the base. Pore parts 

 more or less golden. Three short black diverging bands behind 

 the orbit and a longer horizontal one below them. Lips, chin, 

 and intermandibulary space jet black. Pupil black, iris golden 

 rayed with a dark maltese cross. Operculum golden with a black 

 oblique bar on the lower limb. Au elongated subrhombic patch 



