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being shorter than the others and with a membranous flap. None of the rays of 

 the dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the female. Pectoral of ocular side with 13 or 

 14 rays, length J to nearly § that of head. A strong spine between the pelvic fins. 

 Caudal rounded ; caudal peduncle very short. Pale brownish, speckled and spotted 

 with darker, and with a number of rings or U-shaped markings, of which the series 

 of large ones at edges of body are most prominent ; median fins with irregular spots 

 and streaks of dark brown ; sometimes a deep black blotch at bases of anterior rays 

 of anal fin ; distal part of pectoral dusky. Blind side of body dusky in its posterior 

 half, yellowish white anteriorly. 



FtG. yS.—Taniopsetta ocellala. B.M. (N.H.) 79.5.14.76, 77. X i. 



Type. — British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Reg. No. 1879.5. 14.76. 

 Distribution. — Saya de Malha Bank, Indian Ocean ; Admiralty Islands. 

 Specimens Examined : 



3 (c?. ^So, 155; ?. 148 mm.}. Saya de Malha Bank, 123 fms. Gardiner. 



- is* 135: ?- 14- nim.). Types.^ Nares Harbour, Admiralty Is., 152 fms. " Challenger.' 



2. T^NIOPSETTA R.'VDULA, Gilbert. 



TaniopsHta radula, Gilbert, 1905. Bull. U.S. Com. Fish., xxiii (2}, (1903), p. 680, fig. 266 : Xorman, 



1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (10) viii, p. 599. 

 Tczniopseita oc£llatus. Fowler, 1928, Mem. B.P. Bishop Mus., x, p. 90. 



Close to T. ocellata, but depth of body about 1} in the length. Scales ctenoid on 

 ocular side, cycloid on blind side ; about 140 in lateral line. Dorsal 88-93 • loth or 

 12th to 15th or i8th rays prolonged in the male, loth to 13th or 14th in the female. 

 Anal 72-75 : first 4 or 5 rays prolonged in the male, first 3 or 4 in the female. All 

 these rays are rather shorter in the female. Membranous flap of first ray of dorsal 

 with a black spot narrowly bordered with white ; a jet black spot margined with 

 white on anterior rays of anal ; blind side of body without pigment. 



' The male is selected as the holotype. 



