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A description* and measurements taken from these specimens 

 are here supplied : 



D. XYII-XVIII. 25; A. III. 8 ; V. I. 5 ; P. (DEX.) 2/6/6, 

 (SIN.) 2/6/7. L. lat. 53; L. trans. 5/14-16. 



Length of head 3-10, greatest height of body 2-75, length of 

 caudal fin 3- 75 in the total length (without caudal fin). Eye 

 fairly large, its diameter 5-55 in the length of the head, or 2 -30 

 in the distance between the point of the snout and the nearest 

 point of the orbit. Interorbital space almost flat, its width 4-00 

 in the length of the head. Upper profile of head from above 

 nostrils to nape almost straight ; lips fleshy ; upper jaw the 

 longer, the maxillary extending to beneath the posterior nostril. 

 An obtusely-rounded prominence before each eye on the inter- 

 orbital space (not nearly as pronounced as in Cheilodactylus fuscus 

 Castelnau). Nostrils large, with a raised skinny margin ; the 

 anterior oval, oblique, provided both anteriorly and posteriorly 

 with a raised flap, which, when depressed, completely cover the 

 opening; the anterior flap the lower; posterior nostril oval, much 

 smaller than the anterior, arid about half its diameter (longitu 

 dinal). About 16 gill-rakers below the angle. 



Teeth villiform, in a distinct band in each jaw. 



Fins : Dorsal beginning above the origin of the free part of the 

 opercle, spines short and fairly stout, the longest (5th) 3*00 in 

 the length of the head ; soft portion of dorsal somewhat higher 

 than the spinous, its longest ray 2 -70 in the length of the head, 

 last ray equal to five-sixths of the diameter of the eye. Distance 

 between last dorsal ray and beginning of base of caudal lobe, 3'75 

 in the length of the head, and a little greater than the width of 

 the base of the pectoral. Origin of anal beneath about the ninth 

 soft dorsal ray, fin short and high ; spines stout, the longest 

 contained twice in the length of the longest ray, which is 1 -50 in 

 the length of the head. Caudal forked, lobes rounded, the upper 

 longer than the lower. Distance between last anal ray and 

 beginning of base of caudal lobe, 1 -55 in the length of the head, 

 or 4-80 in the total length (to caudal). Pectoral long, not much 

 shorter than the length of the head, 3 -40 in the total, reaching to 

 three-fourths the length of the ventral. Ventral reaching to 



*The description (with the exception of particulars concerning the 

 numbers of fin-rays and scales) is based on the smaller example only. 



