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anus, 1*70 in the length of the head. Vertical fins with a 

 narrow, basal, scaly sheath. 



Scales adherent, of moderate size, having a leathery feeling ; 

 free portion rugose ; snout and preorbitals naked ; cheeks, nape, 

 and opercles, densely covered with small, firmly-embedded scales; 

 those of lateral line, small. 



Lateral line. Well developed, gently curving from its origin to 

 beneath about the middle of the spinous dorsal, from where it 

 runs fairly straight right out on to the middle of the caudal fin, 

 passing along the upper part of the caudal peduncle. 



Color soon after capture (both specimens) reddish-brown, 

 with eight dark-brown oblique bars (running at an angle of about 

 40 degrees from the vertical) along the body ; the first across the 

 nape and opercles, the last across the end of the caudal peduncle. 



MEASUREMENTS OF Cheilodactylus spectabilis Hutton. 



Length overall (in millimeters) 



Length to base of caudal fin (in millimeters) 



Length of head in hundredths of length to base of caudal 



Length of caudal fin ... .. 



Greatest height of body ... 

 Height at beginning of anal fin ... 



Least height of caudal peduncle 



Diameter of eye 

 Greatest width 



Width of caudal peduncle at least height 



From point of snout to nearest point of orbit ... 



Width of base of pectoral fin 



Length of base of anal fin ... 



From base of last dorsal ray to beginning of caudal lobe 



From base of last anal ray to beginning of caudal Iob3 



Length of pectoral fin 



Length of ventral fin 



Longest spine of dorsal tin 



Longest ray of dorsal fin .?. .. 



Longest ray of anal fin 



From insertion of caudal to bottom of caudal cleft 



395 



312 

 321 

 26-6 

 362 

 28-8 



96 



5-8 

 14-1 



4-8 

 13-1 



7-7 

 12-5 



8-6 

 20-8 

 29-2 

 18-9 

 10-9 

 11 9 

 21-2 

 138 



*575 

 472 



31-8 



d 



38-8 

 26-9 



9-7 



5-3 

 157 



5-3 

 14-6 



8-1 

 12-1 



68 



20-3 







18-6 

 9-1 

 10-2 

 17-4 

 14-4 



Fin distorted. 



The difference in the number of pectoral rays on each side, as 

 shown at the head of the description, will be of particular interest 



