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o^ Lig'it brownish olive; body with brow n spots, 

 which smaller than interspaces between and 

 confluent on back into short narrow, v. r- 



miculated streaks notostictus 



n^. Caudal forked; grayish, covered all over with 

 small brown spots which larger than inter- 

 spaces; greenish-yellow predorsal spot. 



stellatus 

 a'. Color uniform or irregularly marbled, outlines of markings not defined; caudal 

 little einarginate. 



pi. Depth 2% to 2M. 



qK Uniform brownish; depth 2^ to 2^. 



fuscescens 

 g^ Blackish - brown; irregularly marbled 



lighter; depth 2% luridus 



p^ Depths^; back brownish, body otherwise 



silvery argenteus 



o*. Markings darker than ground color, chiefly formed as longitudinal streaks. 



r-i. Depth 2J^; brown, with 9 or 10 brown 

 longitudinal streaks anastomosing 

 with one another; head with some 

 oblique bluish lines; yellowish spot 

 below soft dorsal dotted with black 

 and edged red; caudal, anal and 

 hind part of tail with brown spots. 



lineatus 

 r2. Depth 2K to 2%; bluish with violet 

 streaks, which broader than inter- 

 spaces between, longitudinal on 

 sides, more vermiculated and retic- 

 ulated on back spinns 



a'. Very distinct transverse streaks; caudal moderately or deeply emarginate, 



especially with age. 



s\ Depth 2 to 2%. 



i'. Olivaceous, with several irregular, 



diffuse, longitudinal yellow lines 



and with diffuse brownish cross 



bands extending on dorsal fin. 



rivulatus 



f?. Yellow, with 4 pairs of undulated 



brownish bands across back. 



tetrazonus 



f*. Orange, with 30 vertical bluish 

 lines, last of which bent and run 

 longitudinally along posterior 

 part of tail; those above pecto- 

 ral oblique and those on opercle 



reticulated doliatus 



t*. Orange, front portion of sides with 

 about 6 undulated blue trans- 

 verse streaks, hind one with 

 blue longitudinal streaks; which 

 united with hindmost trans- 

 verse streaks; broad brown 

 band from neck through eye to 

 lower jaw .-..puellus 



