276 C. TATE REGAN. 



35. Clinns sp. Haddumati, 40 /. 

 D. 24; A. 16; V. i, 3; Sc. 30, 11. 



The depth of the body is equal to the length of the head and is contained 3| times in 

 the total length. Snout shorter than the eye, the diameter of which is twice the interorbital 

 width, and is contained 3| times in the length of the head. The single specimen is 30 mm. 

 in total length, and probably belongs to a species not before described, and differing from 

 nearly all other species of Clinus in the large size of the scales. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII PHARYNGOGNATHI. 

 Fam. Pomacentridae. 



36. Dascyllus melanurus, Blkr. Felidu, 34 f. 



37. Amphiprion sebae, Blkr. S. Nilandu, 30 /., and N. Male, 35 /. 



38. Pomacentrus pimctatus, Quoy and Gaim. Suvadiva, 43 /., and Haddumati, 40 /. 



Fam. Labridae. 



39. Labroides dimidiatus, C. and V. Felidu, 34 /. 



40. Julis schwanefeldii, Blkr. Mulaku, 27 /. 



41. Cheilinus sp. Mulaku, 27 /. 



Four specimens 28 — 45 mm. long may be young specimens of Cheilinus calophthalmus. 



42. Cheilinus sp. Mulaku, 27 /, and N. Male, 35 / 



Several young specimens less than 30 mm. long may belong to Cheilinus ceramensis. 



43. Cheilinus sp. Suvadiva, 43 /. 



Two very small specimens may belong to Cheilinus celebicus. 



ANACANTHINI. 

 Fam. Pleuronectidae. 



44. Rhomboidichthys grandisquamis, Schleg. 



Describing this species', Schlegel says, " The pectorals are not elongated. The males have 

 a spine on the maxilla and another on the anterior margin of the lower eye. The interorbital 

 width is equal to the diameter of the eye in the males, and is half the diameter of the eye 

 in females. The body is more elongated in the females." 



With regard to these features in the specimens from the Maldives : The pectorals are 

 elongated in some, and not in others, without relation to size or sex. All the males have a 

 maxillary spine, but some are withovit an antorbital spine. The females have neither spine. 

 The interorbital width varies from f to 1^ diameters of the eye in males, and j to ^ diameter 

 in females, and, as a rule, the eyes are relatively further apart in the larger specimens. The 

 greatest depth of the body is not more in males than in females, but the eyes being wider 



' Schleg., Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 183. 



