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Onr alcoholic specimens do not show the markings on the candal fin 

 which previons writers have described. 



" Elle est caracterisee * * * par les cinq handes brnnes de la can- 

 dale." (Bleeker.) 



Two line specimens (2081-4), llf inches in length. 



lO.—UPENEUS CRASSILABRIS Cnvier & Valenciennes. 



rjKneus crassilah-is Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. vii, 523, 1831 (New Guinea) ; BIkr. 



Euura. Spec. Pise. Archip. Indie. 38, 1859 (name only); Gtlir. Cat. Fishes 



Brit. Mas. i, 411, 1859 (taken from Cnv. & Val.); Blkr. Visckfauua Nieuw- 



Guiuea, p. 8 (name only). 

 Parupcneus crassiJahris Blkr. Quatri^me Mem. Fanne Ickthyologique Nonvelle Guiuee; 



Blkr. Revision Mulloidcs, 33, 1874? (from Cuv. & Val.) (New Guinea). 



Hahitat. — Indian Archipelago, New Gninea, Johnston's Island. 



Head 3 (Sf); depth 3 (3|); D. VIII, 9; A. I, 7; scales 2-31-G. 



Body oblong, compressed, robnst. Head and anterior part of body 

 heavy. Profile concave from suont to a point midway between the nos- 

 trils, thence regnlarly curved to first dorsal; suont long, bhiut, If in 

 length of head. Ventral outline little curved; caudal peduncle two- 

 thirds length of head, its least depth almost twice in its length. Mouth 

 moderate, little oblique, the lower jaw included; maxillary 2;V in head, 

 terminating between the nostrils. 



Strong, blunt, but conical, teeth in one series in each jaw, the teeth 

 more or less widely separated. Eye 2f in snout and 5 in head ; inter- 

 orbital space very convex, 3f in head. 



Preoi)ercle with upright hmb slanting obliquely forwards; opercular 

 spine strong. Gill-rakers 2 in eye, 4i in maxillaiy, about 28 on lower 

 limb of arch. 



Barbels two-thirds length of head, reaching posterior margin of snb- 

 opercle. Scales large, ctenoid. 



Dorsal fins well developed; third and fourth spines longest, 1.J in 

 head, twice the height of soft dorsal, the last of which are scarcely 

 longer than the first; soft dorsal two-tbirds as high as long, its length 

 2 in head. Caudal moderate, well forked, upper lobe more rounding. 

 If in head. Anal differs from soft dorsal in having its first branched 

 rays one-fourth longer than the last, the nnbranched ray also slightly 

 exceeding the last ray ; the greatest height of the fin 2f in head. The 

 membrane of the first soft ray envelopes a small spine, which, being 

 thus covered, might easily be overlooked; the first articulate ray of 

 anal, as in soft dorsal, not branched. Ventral fins large, li in head, 

 about reaching tips of i)ectorals. 



Air-bladder large. 



Color, in spirits, ohvaceous, lighter below, the fish, as a whole, having 

 a smutty appearance; exposed part of each scale punctulate with brown; 

 first dorsal and caudal dusky; base of soft dorsal dusky, upper half ir- 

 regularly hght and dark; anal with irregular dusky bars; soft dorsal, 

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