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from the caudal, which is forked. Ventrals with six rays. 
Pectorals with a serrated spine. Small teeth in narrow bands 
on the jaws, those on the palate in two patches which may 
be connected. 9—10 branchiostegal rays. Gillmembranes free 
from isthmus and _ slightly connected anteriorly. Gillrakers 
slender, numerous. 
Synopsisot ‘the species: 
I. Anal with 28 rays, more than 3 times in length 
of sbody «is ees ysyet Chae eee nee ce eee P. brachypopterus p. 248. 
II. Anal with 40 rays, more than 2 times in length 
OFSDOdY Ria aul. monte tacte Phuc tates Dimer nia eee P. moolenburghae p. 249. 
Fig. 100. Pseudeutropius moolenburghae n. sp. 
1. Pseudeutropius brachypopterus (Blkr.). 
Lutropius brachypopterus Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind, Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, p. 169. 
Pseudeutropius brachypopterus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 71. 
Pseudeutropius brachypopterus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 58. 
B. 910357 D. 1-65 (A. B28 Pe ans Ve 
Moderately elongate, compressed, head conical, profile sloping 
down from dorsal to snout, nearly straight. Height 4?/,, head 4. 
A median groove running from the end of the snout to the 
base of the occipital process, with a constriction at the vertex. 
Occipital process very long and slender, bifurcated at its end, 
to receive the interspinal bone of the dorsal spine. Jaws equal. 
Eye 3—4, about equal to snout, a little less than interorbital 
space. Nasal barbels reaching on dorsal or not so far, 
maxillary and outer mandibulary ones beyond end of pec- 
torals, mental ones somewhat shorter. Dorsal as long ds 
