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swollen. Body covered witli large ctenoid scales ; clieeks, opercles, and 

 occiput scaly ; cheeks with mncigerons canals between the series of scales. 

 Mouth oblique, the jaws equal. Teeth in narrow bands in each jaw ; the 

 outer I'ow is enlarged and conical in the premaxillaries, the others villi- 

 form ; anterior mandibular teeth enlarged, with a short canine on each 

 side. Tongue free and broad, with a feebly emarginate tip. Eyes supero- 

 lateral and anteromedian, the interspace narrow. Isthmus wide ; the 

 exposed edge of the shoulder girdle smooth. Dorsal with about vi, i/10 

 spines and rays, the spines flexible and more or less produced. Anal with 

 i/9 rays, similar to the second dorsal. Pectoral large and obtusely 

 pointed, without free silk-like rays. Ventrals with i/5 rays. Caudal 

 cuneiform or rounded. 



Exyrias is very probably identical with GiMthulepis, Bleeker, but we 

 retain it on account of the great development of the mucigerous canals of 

 the cheeks, which separate the cheek-scales into three distinct groups. 

 In Gncithnlepis these canals are scarcely if at all developed, and the sqnam- 

 ation of the cheeks is much less definite. In all other characters the two 

 genera are apparently identical. 



Exyrias puntang, Bleelcer. 



Gubius puntang, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind., ii., 1851, p. 486. Id., 



Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 288, pi. Ixii., fig. 1. 

 Gohius funtangoules, Bleeker, Ijoc. cit., v., 1853, p. 242. Id., Giinther, 



Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 19, and Fisch. Siidsee, v., 1877, 



p. 171, pi. eviii., fig. a. 

 Gohius andamanensls, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 691. 

 Gohius mactdipiiinis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, viii. 2, 1883, 



p. 267. 

 Gohius concolur, De Vis, Pi^oc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, ix., 1884, p. 689. 

 Aivao as puntang aides. Scale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., iv., 1906, p. 84. 

 Exyrias pnntangoides, Jordan & Scale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 1906, 



p. 405. 

 Gnathulepis niaculipinnis, Jordan & Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bureau, xxv., 



1906, p. 895. 

 Exyrias inintang, Jordan & Richardson, Check-list Fish. Philipp. Arch., 



1910, p. 49. 



Gohius (Gnatholej)is) puntanguide,-^, Weber, Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges., xxxiv., 



1911, p. 43. 



D. vi, i/10 ; A. i/9 ; P. 17 ; V. i/5 ; C. 17. Twenty-eight series of 

 scales along the middle of the body, and nine between the origins of the 

 soft dorsal and the anal. 



Depth of the body 3-7 in its length, and a little less than the length 

 of the head ; head 3'6 in the body-length, two-sevenths deeper than wide, 

 its width 1*6 in its length. Eye 4 in the head-length, shorter than the 

 snout, which is 2*6 in the head ; interorbital space about half as wide as 

 the eye. Caudal peduncle one-fourth longer than deep, its least depth 

 6-4 in the body length. Width of the body 1-5 in its depth. 



