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CYMBACEPHALUS, new genus 



Type. — Platycephalus neinatophthalmus Giintlier. 



Head moderately depressed, with strono; ridges and higli sharp 

 spines. Teeth in jaws and on paUite fine or villiform, without ca- 

 nines. Vomerine teeth in 2 parallel bands. Palatine teeth in band. 

 One enlarged preopercle spine. Head largely scaly. Soft dorsal and 

 anal with membranes entire. 



Distinguished chiefly by a large deep pit behind each eye. Eye 

 with large branched, supraorbital tentacle. 



{kvh^t}, cavity + /ce</)aXT7, head.) 



CYMBACEPHALUS ARMATUS, new species 



Figure 41 



Depth 61/2 ; head 2%, width IM. Snout 334 in head from snout 

 tip; eye 4%, I14 in snout, 5 times bony interorbital ; maxillary reaches 



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Figure 41. — Cymiacephahis armatus, new genus, new species. Type. 



very slightly beyond fron.t eye edge, length SVs in head from snout 

 tip; interorbital narrow, depressed. Gill rakers? 



Anterosupraorbital spine, followed bj' row of uniform supraorbital 

 close set denticles of which last 2 posterior enlarged, then pair of 

 frontal spines, pair of parietals and pair of occipitals; 3 postocular 

 spines, 3 above opercle and 2 suprascapulars; pair of strong close set 

 nasal spines, one erect preoi'bital and suborbital stay with 8 spines, 

 last or preopercular longest, v.^ith 2 more on preopercle below; 2 

 opercular spines. 



Scales 46 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter, un- 

 armed; 5 scales above, 12 below. Very small scales on prepectoral 

 region and breast. Infraorbital and cheek with small close set scales. 

 Opercular scales moderate, smaller posteriorly. Caudal base scaly. 



