54 Myripristis, 
ditto.<3- in, head. 5.8; D. 203) 145 AN Page 7 * Ca withoukwouter 
rudimentary rays) 1g ; scales as counted to base of caudal 3}—27—6}. 
Body oblong, compressed, not elevated ; caudal peduncle rather slender, much 
compressed ; head compressed, upper profile evenly curved ; eye large, circular, level 
with dorsal border in profile ; interorbital convex, with several, rather prominent, 
longitudinal ridges ; nostrils directly before eye; posterior one rather quadrangular, 
very large ; anterior nostril very small, circular ; snout short, with blunt tip ; preorbital 
very narrow, finely serrate. Mouth large, oblique, with projecting lower jaw which 
fits in a notch in the upper jaw; maxillaries with nearly parallel striz, expanded 
distally, extending to vertical through posterior rim of eye pupil, lower edge serrated 
near posterior angle; villiform teeth in jaws, on vomer and palatines; preopercle 
rounded at angle, without spine ; opercle with a rather short but distinct spine above. 
Gill-openings large, separate, free from the isthmus; gill-rakers on first gill-arch 
10+21, the longest one 6 in head, 24 in eye; pseudobranchiz well developed, 
Dorsals two, hardly connected, depressible in a scaly groove; first dorsal inserted 
behind opercle ; fifth spine longest, the remaining spines graduated antero-posteriorly ; 
second dorsal highest anteriorly, slightly falcate distally ; anal inserted slightly before 


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