6 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Depth 2%; head S^V, width is^. Snout 4 (in profile) in head 

 from snout tip; eye 3%, greater than snout; maxillary reaches 

 slightly beyond front eye edge, expansion 1% in eye, length 2% in 

 head from snout tip; bands of fine teeth in jaws, with 2 to 4 external 

 curved canines anteriorly; partly semilunar narrow band of fine 

 teeth on vomer; interorbital low. 



Scales 62 in lateral series to caudal base (figure shows about 57 

 with 10 more on caudal base) ; tubular scales (in figure) 42 in 

 upper section of lateral line and 20 in lower section to caudal base ; 5 

 scales above lateral line, 18 below, about 22 predorsal forward over 

 hind nostril, 5 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Bases of dorsals, 

 anals and pectorals with few small scales ; basal half of caudal with 

 fine scales. 



D. II, 24, second spine 43^4 in total head length, twentieth ray 1% ; 

 A. Ill, 14, I, third spine 51/5, tenth ray 1%; caudal I1/3, convexly 

 rounded behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral ly^; 

 ventral 1%. 



Body rosy or red, back and sides posteriorly more or less with 

 dusky tint. Fins rosy, vertical narrowly edged with bluish. Dor- 

 sal over greater anterior portion sparsely dotted with purplish. 

 (Bleeker.) 



East Indies, Japan. Bleeker had but one example 125 mm. 

 long. His figure shows a blue line from above the nostrils along 

 and around hind eye edge, then forward to middle of upper lip. 

 The muzzle and cheek are also shown with other parallel blue lines. 



DAMPIERIA SPILOPTERA (Bleeker) 



Cichlops spilopterus Ble^iker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853. p. 168. 



Macassar. — Gunthejs, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 259 (copied). — 



Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, No. 5, vol. 15, 1875, p. 11, 



pi. 1, fig. 4 (Celebes, Sangi, Batjan, Waigiu) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., 



vol. 9, 1876-77, pi. (1) 390, fig. 9.— Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat.. 



Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 28 (North Celebes). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 



57, Fische, 1913, p. 265 (Karkaralong Island; Elat, Long Key; Feer, High 



Key; Pepela Bay, Rotti ; Lamakera, Solor). 

 Cichlops spiloptera Jordan and Richardson. Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, 1907 



(1908), p. 261 (Fuga Island and Calayan). 

 Dampieria spiloptera Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 189 (copied 



Bleejker). 

 Cichlopa lieUmuthii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, 1854, p. 329. 



Larentuka, Flores. 

 Cichlops hellmuthi Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, No. 5, vol. 15, 



1875, p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 6 (Obi major, Flores, Letti, Waigiu) ; Atlas Ichth. 



Ind. Neerland., vol. 9, 1876-77, pi. (1) 390, fig. 4. 

 Dampieria heUmuthii Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol, 10, 1928, p. 189 (on 



Bleeker). 



Depth 22/3 to 3 ; head 3 to 3%, width I2/3 to 3xV. Snout 31/2 to 32/^ 

 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 3i/o to 414. equals snout in young to 



