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BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Type locality. — Dodepo Island, Dutch East Indies. 



Depth 1 % to 1 Ys ; head 4 to 4 1^ , width 1 % to 1 %. Snout 1 % to 1 % 

 in head; eye 3 to Z}/^, 1% to 2 in snout, 13^ to 1% in interorbital; 

 teeth 20 to 22 in jaws, small, inconspicuous; maxillary 3% to 3^ in 

 head; interorbital 2^4 to 2^/^, convexly elevated; preopercle flange and 

 opercle with few coarse striae, inconspicuous, more numerous, though 

 coarse on humeral arch. Gill rakers 4? + 14, very short flexible points. 



Scales large, broadly ovate, with very fine numerous circuli; 33 or 

 34 weak apical denticles, 7 to 9 transverse series of basal elements, 

 often as more or less distinct cusps. 



D. VI or VII, 27, i, last spine 1% to 1% in head, eighteenth ray 

 35^ to 4% in combined head and bod3^; A. Ill, 23, i or 24, i, third 



Fig. 15.— Hepatus nubilus, new species 



spine \% to V/^ in head, sixteenth ray 1 to li/g; caudal deeply 

 emarginate, lunate, 2^/^ to 2^^ in combined head and body; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 1^ to 1% in head; pectoral 33^ to 3 3^ in 

 combined head and body; ventral 3^^ to 4; caudal spine 2 3^ to 2J^ 

 in head. 



Largely dull dark brown with dusky over vertical fins and ventrals, 

 pectorals with more brownish tinge. Iris brown. 



A996, A997, A1033, A1034. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. Novem- 

 ber 20, 1909. Length 210 to 228 mm. Nearly black, shading to brown under 

 scales, probably dark seal brown with slaty streaks in life, of which usually 2 to 

 each scale row. On side of head and breast brown in form of he.xagonal spots 

 in pale ground color, spots size of number 6 shot. No black shoulder blotch 

 or black spots in axils of verticals. Fins nearly black. Dorsal with oblique 

 bars extending upward and backward, best seen in reflected light. Oblique 



