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Head 3i in length; depth 11; D. IV-9; A. 9; F. 20; V. 1, 5. Body 

 elongate and compressed above; trunk broader than deep, and tapering- 

 backward. Head compressed, its width two-thirds its length, and its 

 depth 2| in its width; snout rather long, blunt, compressed, much 

 greater than the eye, and its depth two-thirds its length; eyes close 

 together, on top of the head, directed upward, 1^ in snout, li in the 

 head, and 3^ in its width; mouth small, inferior, the jaws nearly 

 equal, and the maxillary not reaching the eye; teeth in villiform 

 bands in the jaws; lower lip thick, and broad on each side; preoper- 

 cular spine with 1 large teeth turned upward, and a short spine pro- 

 jecting from its base forward, embedded in the skin; head smooth. 

 Gill openings round, nearer the origin of the dorsal than the posterior 

 margin of the eyes, and nearer the latter than the origin of the 

 pectoral. 



Spinous dorsal midway between the origin of the soft dorsal and 



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Fi(.i. 6.— Callionymus valenciennesi. 



the middle of the eye; dorsal spines slender and the first and last the 

 longest, about equal, and about a third again as long as the two 

 median ones, so that the edge of the tin is deeply emai-ginate; soft dor- 

 sal high, the first ray somewhat higher than the others, excepting the 

 last, which is very long and produced; anal rather low, lower than 

 the soft dorsal, but its last ray produced till it is equal to two-thirds 

 the length of the last dorsal ray; pectorals with the middle rays the 

 longest, and produced into an angle behind; ventrals a little longer 

 than pectorals; caudal with the middle rays the longest, graduated 

 above and below. Caudal peduncle compressed, and a))out e(|ual to 

 the eye. 



Color of male in alcohol l)rown above, mottled with minute spots 

 forming rings and blotches with light centers, and traces of several 

 broad crossl)ars; narrow pah^ bluish lines on the sides of the head; sides 

 of the trunk with 5 dark-brown blotches, and numerous light-brown 

 narrow lines inclined forward; lower surface of the body white, silvery 

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