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across cheek to preopercle ridge; caudal largel}^ scaled basally, fins 

 otherwise naked. Scales cj^cloid, with 6 marginal short basal striae; 

 circuli 7 or 8, complete. 



D. XII-I, 13, I, fourth spine 1% in head, fourth ray 3?; A. Ill, 12, 

 I, second spine 3Ko, first ray 2%; caudal 1% ?, emarginate; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral IK ?; ventral 1%. 



Brown, Httle paler below. Back little darker, or sprinkled with 

 deep brown or dark dots, though general dark area of back not extend- 

 ing below middle of eye. Iris slate. Fins dull brow^n. 



Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines. 



U.S.N.M. No. 56238. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 3558). Length, 47 mm. 



DIPTERYGONOTUS GKUVELI Cliabanaud 



Dipterygonotus gruveli Chabanatjd, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1924, p. 57 (type 

 locality: Annam coast, Indo-China); BuU. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 49, p. 253, 

 1924. 



Depth 4%; head 4. Snout conic, larger than eye, equals interorbital ; 

 eye Aji in head; maxillary reaches opposite front pupil edge; mouth 

 oblique; no teeth; preopercle finely denticulate, with spine at angle; 

 suborbital depth % pupil diameter. 



Scales 80 in lateral line; 9 above, 16 below; ctenoid; maxillary and 

 snout naked; preopercle scaly. 



D. XIII-I, 10, varies XII-I, 10, third and fourth spines longest or 

 % body depth; A. Ill, 10; caudal deeply emarginate, lobes pointed. 



Red, back shaded darker. Black spot above mouth. Large black 



blotch on opercle. Length, 80 mm. (Chabanaud.) 



Indo-China. 



Genus INERMIA Poey 



Inermia Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, vol. 2, p. 193, 1861. (Type, Inermia vittata 

 Poey, monotypic.) 



Body elongate, fusiform, slender. Maxillary reaches to or little 

 beyond front eye edge. Teeth feeble or obsolete. Nostril small. 

 Scales small, 80 to 85. Dorsals separated, spines 16 or 17, rays 9 or 

 10. Anal spines 3, rays 8. 



West Indies. 



INERMIA VITTATA Poey 



Inermia vittata Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, vol. 2, p. 193, 1861 (type locality. 

 Havana). — Jordan, Copeia, No. 106, p. 34, 1922 (Curagao). — Breder, Bull: 

 Bingham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 1, art. 1, p. 47, 1927 (Cay Sal Bank near 

 Rampidor Rocks). 



Emmelichthijs vittatus Poey, Synops. Pise. Cuba, p. 320, 1868. — Parr, Bull. Bing- 

 ham Oceanogr. Collection, vol. 3, art. 4, p. 60, fig. 12, 1930 (Cat Island, 

 Bahamas) . 



Erythrichthys vittatus Poey, Enumerat. Pise. Cuba, p. 49, 1875. — Jordan and 

 Fesler, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 17, p. 528, 1889 (1893) (compiled). 



Depth 4% to 5%; head 3% to 3%, width 2 to 2%. Snout 3% to 3% in 

 head from snout tip; eye 3% to 3%, greater than snout in young to 1)^ 

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