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two fifths deeper than loug, its least depth 5-67 to 6 iu the body-leugth. Head 

 about four ninths deeper than wide, the fronto-occipital profile sublinear and but 

 little acclivous, that of the nape feebly rounded and somewhat raised above the 

 level of the occiput, its width 1-83 to 2 in its length, which is 2-83 to 3 iu that of 

 the body. Snoixt with rounded profile, its length about one-eighth less than the 

 eye-diameter, which is 3-5 to 3-67 in the length of the head. Interorbital region 

 feebly convex, its width 1-2 to 1-5 in the eye-diameter. Jaws equal; cleft of mouth 

 very oblique; maxillary extending to beyond the vertical from the posterior 

 bonier of the pupil, its length half or rather more than half that of the head, the 

 width of its gently rounded distal extremity 1-75 to 1-83 in the eye-diameter. 



Premaxillaries with a band of villiform teeth, broad in front, gradually 

 narrowing laterally, and an outer row of short, stout, curved, and somewhat 

 distant teeth ; a few slender, depressible teeth on each side of the symphysis 

 posteriorly. Mandibular band similar anteriorl}% but narrower and without 

 depressible teeth ; laterally the teeth are of equal size, in three to two series, the 

 inner ones as strong as those of the outer row. An angular band, of small teeth 

 on the head of the vomer, each successive series decreasing in size from the outer 

 row. Palatine teeth in a narrow, anteriorly claviform, band ; pterygoids toothless. 

 An elongate-ovate patch of small teeth on the tongue. 



Scales in 36 series between the opercular flap and the root of the caudal 

 fin, in 5 or 6/1/18 or 19 between the first dorsal spine and the ventral edge, those 

 below the upper lateral line and on the opercles large and feebly ctenoid, above 

 that line small and cycloid, as also are those of the nape, parietal region, and 

 cheek ; rest of head naked. Lateral lines with 39/12 simi^le pores. 



Dorsal fin with xii 9 or 10 rays, originating above the pectoral base ; spines 

 moderately strong, the membranes of those in front deeply notched and penicil- 

 late ; they increase gradually in length to the last, which is 1-75 to 2 in the length 

 of the head and 2-33 to 2-5 in the sixth or seventh ray; these are subequal iu 

 length, 2-2 to 2-5 in the body-length. Caudal subcuneiform, 2-55 to 2-67 in the 

 body-length. Anal fin with iii 10 rays, originating below the eleventh dorsal 

 spine ; spines strong, the third the longest, 1-87 to 2-17 in the length of the head 

 and 2-6 in the sixth and longest ray, which is as long as or a little longer than 

 that of the dorsal. Pectoral obtusely pointed, with 16 to 19 rays,= as long as the 

 head ; seventh and eighth rays longest, extending to below the last dorsal spine. 

 Ventral fin elongate and pointed, inserted slightly in advance of the pectoral- 

 base, the length of the spine 1-5 in that of the head ; outer ray bifid and inspissate, 

 extending to or beyond the last anal spine, its length 2-25 in that of the body. 



Gill-rakers 7 + 14, mostly reduced to mere spinulose pads, the last on the 

 lower branch of the anterior areh broad and triangular, its length 2-67 in the eye- 

 diameter. Pharyngeal bones mostly armed with small, closely set, globular teeth. 



' The larger of my examples has 19 rays on each side, the smaller 16 on one side, 18 on 

 the other. 



