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Body deeply ovate. Head moderate, obtuse. Snout short. Eye 

 small, advanced. Mouth small. Teeth uniserial, front ones chisel- 

 like incisors, laterals more pointed; usually no inner rows, sometimes 

 few small conic teeth, more or less concealed by fleshy pads. Scales 

 uniformly small, present on head except on muzzle; entire cheek 

 scaly. Spinous dorsal with margins of membranes notched, spines 

 10 besides recumbent spine in front, rays 17 to 23. Anal spines 3, 

 rays 13 to 15. Front soft dorsal and anal rays little elevated as 

 moderate pointed lobes. Caudal emarginate. Paired fins small. 



CORACINUS CAPENSIS (Cuvier) 



Dipterodon capensis Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 276, pi. 188, 1831 (type 

 locality: Cape of Good Hope). — Valenciennes, Regne Animal, Cuvier, HI. 

 Poiss., pl. 43, fig. 2, 1839.— Pappb, Synops. edible fishes Cape, p. 23, 1853 

 (Western Division of Colony). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 426, 1859 (Cape of Good Hope). — Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. 

 Indie, vol. 21, p. (50, 53) 63, 1860 (Cape of Good Hope).— Castelnau, Mem. 

 Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 34, 1861 (West Coast and Table Bay). — Peters, 

 Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876 (1877), p. 833 (Cape of Good Hope).— 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 6, p. 165, 1908-1911 

 (Natal). — Lampe, Deutsche Siidpolar Exped., vol. 15, pt. 2, p. 235, 1914 

 (Simonstown). — Gilchrist, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 2, p. 90, 

 1914 (habits). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, 

 p. 358, 1917 (references). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 

 4, p. 86, 1918 (references). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1925, p. 233 (Natal).— Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, 

 p. 635, pl. 25, fig. 2, 1927 (Walfish Bay, Table Bay, False Bay, Natal, Dela- 

 goa Bay). 



Dipterodon multifasciatus Pellegrin, BuU. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, p. (229) 231, 

 1914 (type locality: Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). 



Depth l%o; head 3%, width 1%. Snout 3 in head; e3^e 4, 1% in snout, 

 equals interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 2^ in eye, length 

 3 in head; teeth uniserial incisors; hind preopercle edge serrated; in- 

 terorbital 4. Gill rakers 8 + 15, lanceolate. 



Scales 88 in lateral line; tubular scales 69 In lateral line; 28 scales 

 above lateral line, 33 below, 60 predorsal; 15 rows across cheek. 

 Scales with 12 to 18 basal radiating striae; 40 to 53 apical denticles, 

 with 3 to 7 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X, 22, I, fourth spine 2% in head, tliird ray Iji; A. Ill, 14, i, 

 second spine 3%, third ray Iji; caudal 1, deeply emarginate; pectoral 

 1%; ventral 1^. 



Olive, fawn color below. On side nine vertical deep clove-brown 

 bands, each little narrower than interspaces, within which parallel 

 alternate clove-brown vertical line. Fins neutral dusky, ventral espe- 

 cially dark terminally. 



Cape Colony, Natal, Portuguese East Africa, Madagascar. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53019. Natal coast. H. W. Bell Marley. 1925. Length, 215 mm. 



