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2. No filaments on upper lip. 



a. Marbled with brown and yellow; head and body 



i3/^ times the length of the tail C. marmoratus p. z\ 



b. A broad black band along the upper part of 

 the sides; head and body 2'/3 — 3 times the 



length of the tail C. nielanotaenla p. 2J 



I. Pectorals reduced to a minute filament C. filaria p. 290. 



I. Callechelys sibogae M. Web. 



Callcchelys Sibogae Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 49. 



Height 79; head 18, 10 times in trunk; tail more than i '/2 

 times in length of head and trunk. Eye about 20, more than 

 twice in snout. Anterior nostril a tube, separated by a filament 

 from the posterior nostril, which forms a kind of tube, directed 

 y^^.c^x^^.^y^^^^x^^^^yy backwards, behind 

 which there are two 

 other small filaments. 

 Snout convex, some- 

 what depressed, pro- 

 minent.Cleft of mouth 

 reaching one eye- 

 diameter behind eye, 

 equal to five times 

 the length of head. 

 Origin of dorsal short- 

 ly behind vertical 

 through angle of 

 mouth. Dorsal and 

 anal low, ending at 

 some distance from tip of tail. Pectorals none. Teeth pointed, in 

 2 series, about 3 pairs on the intermaxillary plate, which are 

 separated from the other teeth. Colour of alcohol specimen 

 yellowish, branchial region blackish. Length of the single 

 specimen known 237 mm. [Type of the species in the zoological 

 Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: South-coast of Timor (Bay of Noimini !), pelagic. 



2. Callechelys marmoratus (BIkr.) [Fig. 132 on p. 287]. 



Dalophis inarmorata Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 37. — 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 100. 

 Sphagcbranchus marmoratus Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish. 1856, p. 26. 

 Callechelys marmoratus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 66. 



Fig- ^33- Callechelys sibogae M. Web. 



a lateral, b ventral view ; v anterior, h posterior nostril, 



k gillopening. 





