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and 1.7 in head; head moderately depressed, under surface flattened, 

 its length 4.2 in standard length, its depth behind eyes 1.5 in its length, 

 its width 1.4 in its length; eye nearly midway in length of head, its 

 upper margin touching dorsal profile, its diameter 7 in head, 

 2.7 in snout, and 2.3 in the flat interorbital space ; snout broad, evenly 

 rounded, 2.4 in head; cheeks prominent; nasal flap triangular, with 

 filamentous tip, not reaching eye ; mouth moderately curved, its width 

 equal to interorbital space, lips thick, lower lip with a median incision, 

 which extends almost completely through lip; inner rostral barbels 

 reaching to nostrils, outer rostral barbels longer and extending beyond 

 anterior margin of eye, maxillary barbels still longer, about 0.5 head. 



Squamation : Scales minute, completely covering body ; lateral line 

 nearly straight, continuous but less marked posteriorly. 



Figure 69. — Noeviacheilus schultzi, new species: Type (U.S.N. M. No. 107953). Drawn by 



Miss Jane Roller. 



Fins : Origin of dorsal fin over origin of ventrals, midway between 

 tip of snout and base of caudal fin; dorsal rays iii, 8, the longest 

 branched ray 1.8 in head; caudal fin broadly emarginate, 1.4 in head; 

 anal rays ii, 5, the longest branched ray 0.5 length of head ; ventrals 1.6 

 in head, a small blunt axillary scale; pectorals 1.3 in head, a short 

 axillary process, the rays i,ll, distance between pectorals at base of 

 first rays equal to length of head minus snout. 



Coloration: Back and sides pale olivaceous, upper part of head 

 obscurely mottled ; underparts pale creamy yellow ; dorsal surface of 

 outer rostral barbel olivaceous ; back and sides of body with about 15 

 narrow black cross bands, of approximate width of interspaces, which 



