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SyHopsis, af the species. 
I. Distal part of dorsal and pectoral spine cartilagi- 
nous and flexible, proximal part osseous. 
F, head) 4°/, in length.) 19) gillrakers.. 2-5... © C. gjellerupi p. 237. 
ey head ca einlenotha 22 yeillrakersy io. . “1 «) <0 ep © C. equinus p. 238. 
IJ. Dorsal and pectoral spine totally osseous. 
A, 20 or more gillrakers. — 
a. Origin of dorsal slightly behind ventrals . . . C. meraukensis p. 239 
6. Origin of dorsal before ventrals........ C. ater p. 240. 
B. 11—13 gillrakers. 
1. Nasal barbel longer than head, eye 6—7. . . C. brevidorsalis p. 241. 
2. Nasal barbel shorter than head, eye 42/,—51/4. 
a. Pectoral spine longer than that of dorsal. 
ey NalerS5—OOr, pays sa) 5) es Stam Veleer esse C. bartoni p, 242. 
Pie AmalteresOSieae tee occ een sre Sos C. perugiae p. 243. 
6, Pectoral spine shorter than that of dorsal C. novae-guineae p. 244. 
Fig. 98. Copidoglanis ater (Perugia). 
I. Copidoglanis gjellerupi M. Web. 
Copidoglanis gjellerupi Max Weber, Nova-Guinea IX. livr. IV, 1913, p. 528. 
Pte; Oo 7: -Caudodorsal-— C. circa 55; A. citca 76; 
Peake ti—12 9 V1, 
Height about 7, head 4?%/,. Dorsal profile slightly convex 
from first dorsal to eye, from eye to snout slightly concave; 
eye nearly 8, situated rather high in the frontpart of the 
posterior half of the head, 3'/, times in snout, 2 times in the 
convex interorbital space. Lips thick with partly lamellated 
papillae; nasal barbels reaching to eye, maxillary barbels 
reaching beyond eye, mandibulary barbels reaching base of 
pectorals, mental barbels shorter. Dorsal 17/, times in length 
of head, triangular, its hindborder straight, its origin much 
