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ward, next to the last ray longest, 1.9 times in head; the pos- 

 terior rays of second dorsal and anal extend upon caudal when 

 depressed; the very long pointed caudal 2.55 to 2.6 times in 

 length ; the broad pointed pectoral is a trifle shorter than head 

 and extends back beyond a line from anus; the ventrals are 

 from 0.74 to 0.87 of head and do not extend to the small flat 

 triangular anal papilla. 



The color in alcohol uniform pale yellowish brown, lighter 

 beneath, the fins concolorous, the anal with a blackish margin; 

 the ventrals seem to have been dusky. 



The type, 92 millimeters long, and two cotypes, 88 and 89 

 millimeters in length, were collected in the Hongkong market 

 by Alvin Scale and are now in the Bureau of Science collection. 

 A third cotype, formerly in the collection, is not now there. 



123. OXYURICHTHYS MICROLEPIS Bleeker 



PLATE 20, FIG. 2 



Gobius microlepis BLEEKER, Verb. Bat. Gen. 22 (1849) 35; Nat. Tijd. 



Ned. Ind. 7 (1854) 436; GUNTHER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 3 (1861) 



49. 

 Oxyurichthys microlepis BLEEKER, Enumeratio specierum piscium, 



Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. 6 (1859) 120. 

 Oxyurichthus cristatus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 



(1907) 44; EVERMANN and SEALE, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 26 (1907) 



104; JORDAN and RICHARDSON, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 27 (1908) 278; 



SEALE, Philip. Journ. Sci. D 9 (1914) 75. 



Dorsal VI, 1-12; anal I, 13; there are 48 or 50 scales in a 

 lateral series, 14 to 16 in a transverse series, and 16 or 18 scales 

 before first dorsal. 



The body slender, elongate, much compressed laterally, the 

 head much broader than body, the dorsal line nearly straight 

 but the ventral line ascending posteriorly to tail, the depth 5.4 

 to 6.3 in length; the width of the head equal to its depth, its 

 length 3.9 to 4.4 in head and trunk together; the snout short, 

 blunt, boldly convex, and 3.3 to 3.8 times in head ; the eyes very 

 high up, more dorsal than lateral in position, equal to snout in 

 length, close together, the interorbital space equal to or less 

 of an eye diameter; no orbital tentacle; the mouth strongly 

 oblique, with thin projecting lower jaw, the posterior angle of 

 maxillary beneath middle of eye; there are 18 or 20 rather 

 widely spaced, moderately large teeth on each side of upper 

 jaw, and /two rows of much smaller teeth in lower jaw; the 

 opercles and preopercles scaleless, the latter with two length- 



