CHEILODIPTERID FISHES — SCHULTZ 413 



Clodipterus Rafinesque, Analyse de la nature . . ., pp. 86, 88, 1815. (Substitute 



for Clieilodipterus Lac^pede.) 

 Chilodiptcrus Gunthee, Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, vol. 1, p. 



248, 1859. (Type, Cheilodipterus lineattis Lacep^de.) 

 raramia Bleekee, Nederl. Ti.1dschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 233, 1863. (Type, 



Cheilodipterus lineatus Lacepede; proposed to replace CheUodipterua 



LacepMe.) 

 Acanthapogon* Fowlek, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Monogr. 2, p. 197, pi. 8, 



lig. 18, 1938. (Genus based on tiny young; type, Acanthapogon vanderbilti* 



Fowler: U.S.N.M. No. 107189, paratypes.) 

 The following species, represented by a liolotype in the National 

 ;Miiseinn, is refen^d to the genus Cheilodipterus: 



ChiJodiptervs afflnis* Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 11, p. 58, 1876. 

 (U.S.N.M. No. 37416.) 



CHEILODIPTEROPS, new genus 



Figure 20, 6 



Two or three pairs of canines at symphysis of lower jaw, each side 

 of lower jaw with three or four enlarged canines; posterior to the 

 symphyseal canines occur villiform teeth; each side of tip of upper 

 jaw with a small patch of villiform teeth, followed by three pairs of 

 canines, remainder of jaw with wide band of villiform teeth; vomer 

 and palatines with small teeth, other characters are those of the new 



species. 



Genotype.— Clieilodiptero'ps isostigma, new species. 



CHEILODIPTEROPS ISOSTIGMA,* new species 



HoJotype.—V.S.'NM. No. 30657. A specimen 74 mm. in standard 

 length taken at New Guinea by the Linnean Society, Sydney, Aus- 

 tralia, previous to 1882. 



Descnption.— Body compressed, elongate, with large ctenoid scales; 

 lateral line continuous but not extending on caudal fin rays; mter- 

 orbital space slightly concave; maxillaries slipping under preorbital 

 anteriorly, and a little posteriorly a small supplementary bone pos- 

 teriorly on upper edge of maxillary; maxillary reachmg to beyond a 

 vertical line from rear edge of pupil; premaxiUary protractile, its 

 upper edge concealed by preorbital bones; mouth terminal, jaws 

 equal, the lower fitting inside the canines of upper jaw; small 

 symphyseal knob at tip of lower jaw ; pelvic rays I, 5 ; dorsal VI-I, 9 ; 

 anal II, 8, the first spine very small, about 1/3 pupil; pectoral rays 

 11-11; principal caudal rays 17, scales 21/2+25+51/2; cheeks with 

 large scales; gill rakers on first arch 5 + 15 and 5 + 16; preoperculum 

 with double edge, the posterior edge finely serrated; pseudobranchiae 

 present; operculum with one very weak flat spine that does not extend 

 beyond the membranous bone; anus about the diameter of eye in. 



