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Habitat: Celebes') (Menado). New Caledonia!, New 



Hebrides, (China? after BLEEKER). 

 In fresh and brackish water. 



2. Cestraeus goldiei (Macl.) [Figs. 68, 69, p. 260, 262]. 



Aeschrichthys Goldiei Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales VIII. (1883) 



1884, p. 5 & 270. 



Aeschrichthys goldiei Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. Wash. 1908, p. 244. 

 Aeschrichthys Goldiei M. Weber &de Beaufort, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam 1912, p. 135. 

 Cestraeus goldiei M. Weber & de Beaufort, in Sarasin & Roux, Nova Caledonia, 



Zoologie II. Livr. I, N. 2, 1915, p. 26. 



D 1 . IV; DM.8; A. III. 9; P.I. 15 16; V. 1.5; L.I. 36 41 ; 



L. tr. 1314- 



Oblong, rostro-dorsal profile convex. Height 3.7 3.8, 4 4.8 



in length with caudal; head nearly 4 4.4, 4.7 '5.5 in length 



with caudal. Eye 6.4 to 7 times in head 

 2 1 / 2 to nearly 4 times in the strongly 

 convex interorbital space, about 3 times 

 in postorbital part of head and about 

 2 ! / 2 times in length of pointed prominent 

 snout. Intermaxillaries with a thickj 

 fleshy lip, reaching to below or behind 

 pupil. Mandible deeply included. Two 

 series of teeth on intermaxillaries and 

 a patch of teeth on each side of vomer. 

 Origin of first dorsal nearer to end of 

 snout than to base of caudal, separated 

 by 22 to 23 scales from patch of small 

 scales behind upperlip and opposite to 

 II th or 12 th lateral scale. Origin of 

 second dorsal opposite to 22d or 24th 

 lateral scale and 2 scales behind that 

 of anal, the base of which is longer. 



Fig. 69. Cestraeus goldiei 



(Macl.) n. s. 

 Ventral surface of head to 



show the mandible included Both fins are deeply emarginate as 

 in the upper jaws with their also caudaL Pectorals about as long 



thickened lips. , . . . . , , 



as head, reaching to vertical through 



origin of first dorsal or surpassing it. Least height of caudal 

 peduncle somewhat shorter than its length and equal to head 



i) In the collection of BLEEKER in the Leiden Museum are 3 specimens of 

 this species from the Archipelago but without indication of the locality. 



