64. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 62. 
Jordan and Starks,*? where it had been placed by Gunther,** after a 
comparison of the type of I/. monodactylus with adequate materials 
for the time, from Borneo and Madras, as well as China. We hardly 
feel this is justified, even in view of the contention for a different 
faunal area, unless Gunther’s action can be properly shown to be 
unsound. 
Family DACTYLOPTERIDAE. 
EBISINUS CHEIROPHTHALMUS (Bleeker). 
Head, 34 to 32; depth, 43 to 48; D. I—I—I V—8; A. 6; scales, 44 to 
46 in lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 22 or 23 scales 
between soft and dorsal and anal origins; snout, 22 to 3 in head; eye, 
24 to 3; maxillary, 2 to 24; interorbital, 13 to 2, deeply convex. Along 
each side of lower body edge posteriorly 3 projecting lobate keeled 
scales, first about midway inanal. Color in alcohol nearly hair-brown 
with six transverse obscure nearly chaetura-black blotches, fifth and 
sixth of which with paler centers. First band across interorbital, 
second on occiput and last on caudal peduncle. First dorsal spine | 
and pectoral blackish, dorsals otherwise and caudal brownish. Ven- 
tral and anal paler. Caudal with three transverse dark bands, soft 
dorsal with about six. Few pale brown spots on each anal ray. Iris 
pale yellowish white. Length, 107 to 125 mm. Three from Takao. 
Family PLATYCEPHALIDAE. 
THYSANOPHRYS NEMATOPHTHALMUS (Gunther). 
Head, 23; depth, 74 to 85; D. I, VITI—1, 10,1; A. 11, 1; scales, 98 
counted close along and above lateral line to caudal base, and 9 more 
on latter; tubular scales 53 or 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 
more on latter, unarmed; 9 or 10 scales above lateral line to soft dorsal 
origin, 22 to 24 scales below to anal origin; 16 or 17 predorsal scales; 
2 preopercle spines; snout, 3 to 34 in head from upper jaw tip; eye, 
54 to 6; maxillary, 24; interorbital, 64 to 63; 3 supraorbital tentacles, 
median long at eye and single flat tentacle below preopercle angle. 
Gill-rakers, v, 1-5, 1x, lanceolate, equal gilJ-filaments or 2 in eye. 
Scales with 16 to 20 radiating basal striae, apical denticles about 30 
and circuli moderately fine. Color in alcohol dark vandyke-brown, 
with about eight obscure saddlelike blotches of darker, merging along 
lower side into many broken and incomplete reticulate blotches. 
Dusky vandyke-brown blotch belo weye across cheek. Dorsals like 
back, finely reticulated with pale or whitish, likewise caudal, which 
also with four obscure dark vertical bands. Pectorals like dorsals, 
but with blackish blotches basally. Ventral pale basally, dusky to 
42Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, 1904, p. 151. 
4s Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 148. 
