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Family EXOCKETID.FI 



54. CYPSILURUS SPILONOTOPTERUS (Bleeker). 



Head 4.75 in length; depth 5.5; D. 14; A. 10; scales 50. Pectorals 

 black within; dorsal with a black blotch; second pectoral raA' divided; 

 ventrals white. 



No. 3838= 14x (Formo.sa), F. 1. 



Family FISTULARIID^F:. 



55. FISTULARIA PETIMBA (Lacepede). 



Head 2.75; snout 3.75; D. 16; A. 12. 



One large example. No. 11437 (Formosa), F. I. 



Family OPHICEPHALID.E. 



56. OPHICEPHALUS MACULATUS (Lacepede). 



One specimen, No. 38x (Formosa), F. I. 



A. 26; scales 53. 



One specimen, No. 5096, from Giran. 



57. OPHICEPHALUS TADIANUS Jordan and Evermann, new species. 



Head 3; depth 4.75; qyq 8.6; snout 6.2; maxillary 2.65: mandible 

 2.3; interorbital 5.3; D. 42; longest dorsal ray 3; A. 26; longest anal 

 ray 2.7: ventrals 3.5; pectoral 2.3; scales 6-57-11. Body spindle- 

 shaped, compressed posteriorly, caudal peduncle short, deep and 

 greatly compressed; head long and snake-like, covei-ed with plate-like 

 scales; eye small, anterior; nostrils wide apart, the anterior in a small 

 tube on upper edge of maxillary; mouth oblique, large, the maxillary 

 reaching past orbit; a l)and of small teeth on outer edge of jaws, a 

 band of large, wide-set, canine teeth on palatines and inner side of 

 lower jaw; upper jaw protractile; dorsal long, of numerous spine- 

 like rays, low anteriorly, gradually lengthening posteriorly; caudal 

 rounded; anal similar to dorsal, but not so long; ventrals very small 

 and short, not reaching vent; pectoral short and rounded; lateral line 

 broken anteriorly", running along center of bod\' from base of caudal 

 to just over second anal ray, thence upward for 2 rows of scales, then 

 forward for 15 rows of scales, thence downward for 1 row, then for- 

 ward to upper edge of gill-opening, where it ends. 



General color in alcohol, olivaceous-brown above, lighter below; 

 belly white, with some yellowish markings; a row of 12 dark oliva- 

 ceous blotches along base of dorsal, partly on fin and partly on body; 

 below these but above lateral line another row of 8 or 9 similar but 

 larger blotches, extending anteriorly to the middle of upward curve 

 in lateral line; below this another line of about 13 lighter colored and 



