ACANTHOPHTIIALMUS SHELFORDII. 231 



NOTE xxxin. 

 ACANTHOPHTHALMUS SHELFORDII, N. SP. 



BY 



Dr. C. M. L. POPTA. 



Longitudo capitis ad longitudinem totius corporis {sine 

 pinna caudali) eandem rationem hahet atqiie III ad XX; 

 capitis longitudo decies tanta quanta oculi diametrus ; ocu- 

 lorum intervallum tantum quanta oculi diametrus; pinna 

 dorsualis tanto intervallo quanta est basis eiusdem longitudo 

 ante pinnam analem posita est; pinna ventralis medio corpori 

 inserta est; pinna caudalis truncata est; corpus est roseo 

 colore; in tergo et in utroque laterum est series multarum 

 et magnarum macularum^ quae maculae sunt fusco colore et 

 multiformes. 



The length of tlie head is contained 6^/3 times in the 

 total length (without caudal), the height of the body is 

 contained in it S'/s times, the latitude is contained 12'/2 

 times in it, the caudal is contained S^s times in it. The 

 body is compressed, the profile of the head is convex on 

 the upper side, concave on the under side. The eyes are 

 small, '/lo ^^ ^^® length of the head, situated in the 

 anterior half of the head, the space between the eyes is 

 a little convex and is equal to the diameter of the eye; 



?^otes from the Ijeyclen Miuseum, Vol. XXIII. 



