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nearer angle of mouth than symphysis. Shoulder girdle without papil- 

 lae. No fold in front of dorsal. Isthmus restricted, attachment of 

 branchiostegal membrane at lower angle of pectoral base. Scales con- 

 fined to caudal peduncle, extending forward to a vertical through base 

 of last dorsal ray, ctenoid, large, imbricated, almost wholly covering 

 caudal peduncle, 5 in a median longitudinal row to base of caudal ; 

 4 large scales in a transverse row on caudal base ; no other scales. 

 First dorsal with 7 flexible spines, the first only a little prolonged in 

 male, reaching base of first ray. Second dorsal with 12 or 13 rays; 

 anal with 10 or 11 rays; tip of posterior dorsal rays falling a little 

 short of a vertical through end of hypural, those of anal considerably 

 short. Pectoral with 15 or 16 rays. Ventral short, ending at a consid- 



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Fig. 2. — Garmamiia gent-mat a; from the holotype; U.S.N.M. no. 107291 ; male, 

 19 mm. Drawn by Andrew Pizzini. 



erable distance before anus ; the interspinal membrane not well devel- 

 oped. Caudal short, rounded. 



Body nearly uniformly and very moderately dusky; very feeble 

 traces of cross-bands, somewhat better marked when viewed from 

 dorsal aspect ; the nearly evenly distributed chromatophores of two 

 sizes, fine and coarser ones, the latter especially numerous on back and 

 caudal peduncle ; head darker than body, irregularly shaded. Caudal 

 distinctively and prettily spotted, when viewed under magnification 

 arrangement of very small individual spots as follows : in a large 

 median area near base of fin 1 spot, usually elongate, set like a jewel 

 in every fin ray joint, surrounded marginally by a light region ; near 

 upper and lower margins and posteriorly 2 smaller spots, one behind 

 the other, often only 1 and sometimes 3 similar spots similarly set in 

 every joint ; the characteristic arrangements of spots disappearing 



