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rostral region and may render necessary the reunion of the Ogcoceph- 

 alines and Halieutines. Malthopsis is a genus of eight or nine species 

 having in common teeth on both the pahitine and vomerine bones. 



Fig. 85. — Halieutwa stellata. After Temminck and Schlegel. 



branchiae only on the second and third arches, and a dorsal fin with 

 five or six ra3's. Other examples of the genus are the Malthopsis 

 mitnger and Malthopsis tiarella. 



Fig. 36. — HaUeutwa coccinca. After Alcock. 



The longest known of the PTalieutine genera is Halieutwa typified 

 by the Halieuta'a stellata of the Chino-Japanese waters. But little 

 is known of its habits, and by Jordan and Sindo (1902) it was de- 



