288 



2. No filaments on upper lip. 



a. Marbled with brown and yellow ; head and body 



i 3 / 4 times the length of the tail ........ C. marmoratus p. 288. 



b. A broad black band along the upper part of 

 the sides; head and body 2 1 / 3 3 times the 



length of the tail ................ C. melanotaenia p. 289. 



II. Pectorals reduced to a minute filament ........ C. filaria p. 290. 



i. Callechelys sibogae M. Web. 



Callechelys Sibogae Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 49. 



Height 79; head 18, 10 times in trunk; tail more than i'/ 2 

 times in length of head and trunk. Eye about 20, more than 

 twice in snout. Anterior nostril a tube, separated by a filament 

 from the posterior nostril, which forms a kind of tube, directed 



backwards, behind 

 which there are two 

 other small filaments. 

 Snout convex, some- 

 what depressed, pro- 

 minent.Cleft of mouth 

 reaching one eye- 

 diameter behind eye, 

 equal to five times 

 the length of head. 

 Origin of dorsal short- 

 ly behind vertical 



Fig. 133- (MUcMy, Mga, M. Web. thrQ fa k of 



a lateral, b ventral view : v anterior, h posterior nostril. _ . 



k gillopening. m uth * DorSal and 



anal low, ending at 



some distance from tip of tail. Pectorals none. Teeth pointed, in 

 2 series, about 3 pairs on the intermaxillary plate, which are 

 separated from the other teeth. Colour of alcohol specimen 

 yellowish, branchial region blackish. Length of the single 

 specimen known 237 mm. [Type of the species in the zoological 

 Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: South-coast of Timor (Bay of Noimini !), pelagic. 



2. Callechelys marmoratus (Blkr.) [Fig. 132 on p. 287]. 



Dalophis marmorata Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 37. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 100. 

 Sphagebranchus marmoratus Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish. 1856, p. 26. 

 Callechelys marmoratus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 66. 



