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16224. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 104 mm. 

 12781, 12782. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 78 to 100 



mm. 3 examples. 

 Two examples. Kayoa Island. November 29, 1909. Length 66 to 83 mm. 

 21478. Dowarra Island. December 2, 1909. Length 68 mm. 

 13669. Makyan Island. November 29, 1909. Length 60 to 97 mm. 2 



examples. 

 13830. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. Length 53 to 93 



mm. 7 examples. 

 Five examples. Powati Harbor. November 29, 1909. Length 62 to 84 mm. 

 Three examples. Maitara Island. November 26, 1909. Length 53 to 89 mm. 

 One example. Labuan Blanda Island. December 14, 1909. Length 85 mm. 

 22308. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 29, 1909. Length 67 mm. 

 9947. Doc Can Island, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 96 mm. 



ANTHIAS CICHLOPS (Bleeker) 



Serranus cichlops Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Indie, vol. 4, 1853, p. 245. 

 Priaman, Sumatra. 



Anthias cichlops Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 503 

 (note). — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 328 (com- 

 piled). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 458 (Samar, 

 Borongan). 



Pseudanthias cichlops Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873- 

 76, p. 20, pi. (11) 289, fig. 1 (Priaman). 



Depth 2% to 3Xo; head 2% to 3)4 width 2 to 234 Snout 4% to 

 5 in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 3%, greater than snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young to 134 with age; maxillary % to % in eye, 

 expansion 134 to 234 in eye, length 2 to 23^5 in head; teeth fine, in 

 narrow bands in jaws, anteriorly 2 wide set canines in each jaw, lower 

 recurved; lower jaw also with 2 medio-lateral recurved canines each 

 side; narrow band of fine teeth on each palatine and small patch on 

 vomer; interorbital 3 to 3% m head, convexly elevated; preopercle 

 edge denticulate, with 2 or 3 spines little enlarged at angle; opercular 

 spines 3, lower most advanced. Gill rakers 11 +25, finely lanceolate, 

 much longer than gill filaments or 13^8 in eye. 



Scales 40 or 41 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 or 2 more on 

 latter; 5 above, 12 to 14 below, 23 to 25 predorsal; 10 rows obliquely 

 across cheek to angle of preopercle, of which 3 on preopercle flange; 

 scales on head and body with few auxiliary basal small scales; fins 

 all more or less finely scaled, especially basally; 5 rows of scales 

 transversely across maxillary expansion. Scales with 13 to 15 basal 

 radiating striae; 40 to 60 apical denticles; circuli fine. 



D. X, 16, 1 or 15, 1, fourth spine 234 m total head length, twelfth 

 f ay 134 to 13^; A. Ill, 7, 1, second spine 2 to 2)4, third ray l#o to 

 1%; caudal 1 to 13^, broadly crescentic, truncate as expanded to 

 slightly convex behind with age, or tips moderately produced; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 234 to 2%; pectoral lKo to 13^; ventral 1 

 to IK- 



