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eye and rather remote from each other ; the praiorbital is a little 

 higher than long. The angle of the praeoperculum is rounded ; its 

 limbs are directed towards each other at a rather obtuse angle ; it 

 has no denticulations whatever. The other opercles arc entirely 

 covered with scales, and have no armatm-e. The suprascapula is 

 very large, and there is a series of similar scales between- it and the 

 nape of the neck. 



The distance of the occiput from the origin of the dorsal fin is 

 much less than from the end of the snout ; the former falls vertically 

 above the root of the ventrals, and its end above the forty-sixth scale 

 of the lateral line. The last two spines and the soft dorsal are 

 enveloped in scales, which ascend to one-half the height of the fin: 

 The spines are of moderate strength and rather short ; the first is the 

 shortest, whilst the third to the last are nearly equal and 3f in the 

 length of the head. The soft dorsal is higher, quadrangular. The 

 distance between the dorsal and caudal fins is much less than the 

 depth of the tail beneath the end of the dorsal fin. The greater 

 part of the caudal is covered with small scales ; it is slightly 

 emarginate, with rounded lobes. The anal fin is opposite to the 

 soft dorsal, to which it is very similar, though somewhat lower. 

 The spines are not stronger than those of the dorsal ; the third is 

 the longest, rather shorter than the longest dorsal spine or than the 

 first anal ray. The pectoral is pointed, and one-fourth of the total 

 length ; the portion nearest to the base is scaly. The base of the 

 ventrals falls behind that of the pectorals ; their length is 6^ in the 

 total; the spine is of moderate strength, and three-fifths of the 

 length of the adjacent ray. 



The scales are of moderate size, minutely ciliated, higher than 

 long; one of the largest covers rather more than one -half of the 

 orbit. 



There is a series of broad, lanceolate, curved incisors in each of 

 the jaws — in the upper one twelve, in the lower fom-teen ; there is 

 also a broad band of cardiform teeth behind these incisors. Neither 

 the vomer nor the palatine bones appear to have any teeth. 



Colour unifoi-m brownish grey (in a dried state). 



inches, lines. 



Total length 13 



Height of the body 4 



Length of the head 3 3 



Diameter of the eye 7^ 



Distance between the eyes 1 3 



Length of the fourth dorsal spine 10^ 



of the pectoral 3 3 



of the ventral 1 10^ 



of a scale 4^ 



Height of a scale 6 



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