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surface of head naked, rest with small cycloid scales. Small cycloid 

 scales croAvdcd before dorsal forward to eyes, becoming large and 

 coarsely ctenoid on tail. Very small cycloid scales on breast and 

 belly. Muzzle with numerous short skinny flaps, and various rows 

 of papillae on sides and upper surface of head. Vent with conic 

 papilla. Two dorsals, first with 6 short flexible spines, second with 

 spine and 10 rays. Anal with spine and 7 graduated rays. Caudal 

 greater than head, ends in long median point behind. Pectoral long, 

 reaches well beyond front of second dorsal or anal. Ventrals sepa- 

 rated, little shorter than head. 



Known by its variegated coloration, handsome mottling, long caudal 

 fin, robust body, depressed head and trunk, and large eye, 



Herre has described Gohiomorphus illotus from a specimen but 

 29 mm long from Polillo. This is surely not congeneric with Gill's 

 Gohiomorphus^ restricted to large species from New Zealand and 

 apparently not at all like G. illotus. Possibly it may enter the pres- 

 ent genus, though the large predorsal scales, different facies of the 

 head shown with the interorbital elevated, lack of skinny flaps on 

 the muzzle, greatly shorter fins, and lack of a greatly variegated 

 color pattern seem to preclude the suggestion. 



{Bafi'achus, a genus of toad fishes, or Batrachoididae, which these 

 fishes superficially s\\gg^s,t + Elcofris.) 



BATRACHELEOTRIS SCLATERI (Steindachner) 



Eleotrts sclateri Steindachnek, Sitz.-Ber. Akad. Wiss. AVien, matli.-nat. Classe, 

 vol. 80, pt. 1 (1879), p. 157, 1880 Hype locality, Society Islands). 



Depth 4% to 514 ; head 3 to 33^5, width 1% to 11/2. Snout 33^ to 4 

 in head measured from snout tip ; eye '6% to 4, subequal with snout, 

 greatly exceeds interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, length 0,% to 3I/2 

 in head from snout tip; teeth simple, pointed, conic, close set, in 

 narrow bands in jaws; interorbital low, narrow, half wide as eye. 

 Gill slit lateral, restricted, equals mouth width. 



Scales 33 + 4 in axial lateral series from suprascapula ; 15 trans- 

 versely above anal origin, 16 to 19 predorsal forward opposite hind 

 eye edge, 7 rows on cheek below eye. Muzzle, interorbital and 

 branchiostegal region naked. Scales much smaller on chest, breast, 

 prepectoral and predorsal regions, largest on tail and caudal pedun- 

 cle. Scales with 24 to 32 radiating striae; apical denticles large, 

 uniserial, only on scales of tail; circuli coarse on anterior or small 

 scales, larger scales with fine circuli which obsolete apically. 



D. VI-I, 10, I, spines flexible with third 2 in total head, first 

 branched ray 1% to 2 ; A. I, 7, i, seventh ray I14 to 1% ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 21/5 to 214 ; pectoral lyV in total head to 3 in fish 



