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Depth 3 to 31/5 ; head 21/2 to 2%, width 1% to 1%- Snout 4 to 5 

 in head from snout tip; eye 4 to 4l^, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye, less so in young, expan- 

 sion 1% to 11/4 in eye, length V/g to 2 in head from snout tip ; teeth 

 fine, small, in narrow bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines, none 

 on tongue ; interorbital 7 to 13, depressed or nearly level. Gill rakers 

 4+9, short, robust, equal gill filaments or 1^ of eye. 



Scales 36 to 40 in median lateral series between head and caudal 

 base and 8 or 9 more on latter ; 22 to 28 tubular scales in lateral line, 

 which ends opposite middle of soft dorsal base; 5 scales above 

 lateral line, 19 or 20 below, 32 to 34 predorsal forward midway in 

 interorbital, 14 or 15 rows obliquely across cheek to preopercle edge. 

 Maxillary scaleless, also preorbital, infraorbitals, snout and man- 

 dible. Scales with 11 basal radiating striae; circuli moderate. 



D. VII, 19, 1, third spine 3% to 4 in total head length, twelfth ray 

 23/5 to 3; A. Ill, 15, 1, second spine 41/3 to 434, tenth ray 2% to 3%; 

 caudal 1% to 1%, convex behind ; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 

 to 3I/2 5 pectoral 1% ; ventral 2^^ to 3. 



Brown, scarcely paler below, with 6 ill-defined or obscure darker 

 vertical bands on trunk and tail. Dusky brown blotch, but little 

 smaller than eye, on opercle. Vertical fins all more or less dusky. 

 Paired fins pale. Iris dusky. 



Seychelles, East Indies, Philippines, Micronesia, Polynesia, 

 Hawaii. 



One example. Biri Channel. June 2, 1909. Length 54 mm. 



Two examples. Cagayan Island, Cagayanes Islands, Jolo Sea. March 31, 1909. 



Length 38 to 41 mm. 

 22472. Little Santa Cruz, Zamboanga. May 26, 1908. Length 63 mm. 

 5732. Mahinog, Camiguin Island. August 3, 1909. Length 53 mm. 

 One example. Northwest Verde Island. July 22, 1908. Length 49 mm. 

 One example. Opol, Mindanao. August 4, 1909. Length 36 mm. 

 21572. Port Galera, Mindoro. October 27, 1909. Length 56 mm. 

 16542. Port Matalvi, Luzon. November 22, 1908. Length 37 mm. 

 12592. Rapurapu Island, Luzon. June 22, 1909. Length 44 mm. 

 One example. Tifu Bay, Boero Island, Dutch East Indies. December 10, 1909. 



Length 40 mm. 

 24138. Tomahu Island, Boero. December 12, 1909. Length 46 mm. 

 One example. Mabul Island, Borneo. September 29, 1909. Length 42 mm. 

 One example. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10, 1909. Length 35 mm. 

 14647. A. N. S. P. Tahiti. Length 57 mm. 



Genus DAMPIERIA Castelnau 



Damrderia Castelnav, Philadelphia Cent. Exhib. Offic. Rec. (Res. Fishes Aus- 

 tralia), 1875, p. 30. Type Dampieria lineata Castexnau, monotypic. 



Cichlops (not Hodgson 1844) Muixee and Tboschel, Horae Ichth., pt. 3, 1849, 

 p. 24. Tyi)e Cichlops cyclophthalmus Mullek and Troschel, monotypic. 



