somewhat behind it. Dorsal and anal not confluent, ending at a 

 short distance from end of tail. Pectorals wanting or only a 

 filament. Head short; snout convex, more or less depressed 

 and pointed, projecting beyond mouth, the cleft of which 

 reaches below or behind hindborder of eye. Edge of upper 

 lip without or only with few filaments. Eye small, situated in 

 the anterior fifth or sixth of the head. Posterior nostrils a slit 



Fig. 132. Callechelys marmoratus (Blkr.). (After BLEEKER) ca, X 3 /5- 



or short tube in the upper lip, below the frontborder of the 

 eye or in advance of it ; anterior nostrils a short tube on the 

 edge of the snout. Teeth few in number, acute, recurved, 

 subequal, no canines, uniserial, partly biserial or on all bones 

 biserial. No scales, lateral line present. Gillopenings small, lateral. 

 Distribution: Tropical waters of Indie and Pacific and 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Key to the i nd o-australian species 

 of Callechelys. 



I. No pectorals. 



I. Border of upper lip with 3 filaments. Coloration 



uniform. . . . C. sibpgae p. 288. 



