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156. No well-developecl fleshy flaps on shoulder girdle. 

 17o. Tongue bilobed or if tongue is weakly bilobed or truncate 

 cheeks definitely scaly ; caudal rounded. 

 18a. Cheeks, opercles, and nape scaly ; breast scaly ; scale rows 

 about 27 to 32 ; 8 to 10 in front of dorsal and 7 to 9 

 in transverse series ; snout about 1.1 in maxillaries ; 

 lower jaw equal or slightly shorter than upper jaw ; 

 pectoral rays 15 or 16; dorsal rays VI-1, 10 or 1, 11. 

 19a. Scale rows 29 to 31 ; scales before dorsal 9 or 10 ; num- 

 ber of scales in a transverse series 9 ; tongue strongly 

 bilobed ; lower jaw slightly shorter than upper ; dorsal 

 rays VI-I, 11 ; anal I, 11 ; a black bar below eyes 

 across front of cheek ; this streak intense brown over 

 each eye; no lengthwise streak on opercle. 



Gnatholepis anjerensls (Bleeker) 

 19&. Scale rows 28 or 29 ; scales before dorsal 9 ; number 

 of scales in a transverse series about 8; tongue bi- 

 lobed (moderately); jaws equal in length; dorsal 

 rays "VI-I, 11; anal I, 10; a brown bar below each 

 eye and a lengthwise one across opercle; a brown 

 blotch above pectoral base; a brown streak across 

 ' pectoral base; six blotches on midsides; a brown 



blotch in front of base of spiny dorsal on midline of 



back Gnatholepis knighti Jordan and Evermann 



19c. Scale rows 28 or 29; scales before dorsal 8; number of 

 scales in a transverse series about 8; tongue weakly 

 bilobed or truncate; lower jaw slightly shorter than 

 upper; dorsal rays VI-I, 10 or I, 11; anal I, 9; no 

 narrow black streak below eyes across front of cheek, 

 but a brown blotch below each eye, more or less 

 divided by a pale area ; six brown blotches on middle of 

 sides; a brown blotch on opercle; two streaks (length- 

 wise) on base of pectoral, lower shorter; under side 

 of lower jaw with pigment cells. 



Gnatholepis hololepis, new species 

 ISb. Cheeks and opercles naked ; midline in front of dorsal 

 naked, only a few scales posteriorly on head above 

 pectoral base ; about 11 scales in a transverse series and 

 34 scale rows on side of body ; jaws equal ; dorsal 

 rays VI-I, 10 ; anal I, 8 ; pectoral 15. 



Ehinogobius corallinus Jordan and Seale 

 ni). Tongue truncate or rounded; no scales of cheeks; caudal 

 rounded or lanceolate. 

 20a. First ray of both dorsal fins not conspicuously enlarged 

 and spinous, not stronger than other rays ; preopercle 

 with or without spines on its iwsterior edge. 

 21ff. Fewer than 42 scale rows from gill opening to base of 

 caudal fin. 

 22o. Length of snout contained in length from tip of 

 snout to posterior tip of maxillaries fewer than 

 two times and not extending behind eye; caudal 

 fin rounded, not pointed posteriorly or lanceolate. 



