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Fiji'. 218. Ncoprrri.'i (ilIjKjvti. 



Family URANOSCOPIDAE. 



KATHETOSTOMA Gimther, 1S60 (laeve). 



KATHETOSTOMA LAEVE Bloch & Schneider (Stone-lifter). 



Urnnoscopus laevis Bl. & Sehn., Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 47, pi. viii. 



Kathetostoma laeve Giinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., ii, 1860, p. 231; Stead, Fish. 



Aust., lOOfi, p. 206, ])]. viii; AVaite & McCull., T.R.S., S.A., xxxix, .1915, 



p. 471, pl. xiii, %. ;5 (head). 



i-'i"-. lil!). KatlietDsioma lacvc. • 



The repulsive appearance of the Stone-lifters militates ag:ainst their popn- 

 larity as food. 



