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Body short, stout and compressed; anterior profile very steep, in a 

 strong curve from tip of snout to origin of dorsal fin; head large; 

 mouth large, the gape reaching middle of eye; jaws armed each 

 with about four large, strong canines in front, with short, blunt, 

 coalesced teeth on sides; three somewhat stronger close-set canines at 

 base of upper jaw; eye moderate, high up; caudal peduncle deep and 

 much compressed. Scales very large, thin, and adherent, those on 

 cheek much reduced. Dorsal fin long, moderateh^ high, and beginning 

 over base of pectoral; anal beginning under twelfth dorsal spine, the 

 last ra3^s somewhat produced; caudal squarely truncate; pectoral 

 broad, fan-shaped, the upper rays the longer; ventrals long and 

 pointed, reaching vent, coterminous with the pectoral. 



Color in alcohol, dirty olive-brown, scales of side and breast 

 broadly edged with black or dark brown, irregular hair-like lines of 

 dark over rest of scale; lateral line dark; base of pectoral dark, with 

 abroad blue line through it; upper edge of pectoral with dark blotches; 

 caudal peduncle with about G longitudinal series of oblong bright blue 

 spots: tins ;dl dusky and yellowish. 



142. DUYM/ERIA FLAGELLIFERA (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 {Cienolabrus aurigaria and C. ruhdlio Richardson). 



One specimen, from Keerun. 



This species is probably identical with the Japanese species, Duy- 

 mmria llageUlfera Cuvier and Valenciennes, of which Duy inxria jajxm- 

 ica Bleeker is a synonym. The equally common Japanese form, Duy- 

 maeria spilogaster Bleeker, is the female of D. jiageUifera. 



143. ANAMPSES C^RULEOPUNCTATUS (Riippell). 

 One fine specimen. No, 343, from Formosa, F. I. 



144. HEMIPTERONOTUS VERRENS Jordan and Evermann, new species. 



One specimen from Keerun, distinguished by the very long ventrals. 



Head 3.5; depth 2.9; eye 4.3; snout 2.4; interorbital 2 in snout; 

 D. II-VIII, 12; A. Ill, 12; scales 3-29-7. Body short, deep, and 

 very greatly compressed; head very short, the anterior profile nearly 

 vertical; body highest at base of pectoral, thence tapering evenly on 

 dorsal and ventral profiles to caudal; nape trenchant; eye high up; 

 mouth small and low; teeth on jaws in a single close-set row, two out- 

 wardly directed strong canmes in front in each jaw. Scales very thin; 

 cheek with smaller scales; rest of head naked; lateral line running 

 high, until near end of soft dorsal, where it drops 3 scales. Dorsal 

 fin beginning on nape above posterior edge of orbit, the first 2 spines 



