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terior third of eye; the upper jaw has a single row of immov- 

 able, thickly crowded, small, brownish teeth; the lower 'lip has 

 a row of horizontally placed minute teeth, which do not reach 

 the surface of the membrane in which they are thickly set; 

 behind these on jaw are two pairs of very small, hooked, slender 

 canines, near symphysis; the scales large, ctenoid, becoming 

 cycloid on nape, where they are smaller and extend forward 

 nearly to eyes, to a point over middle of opercles; the caudal 

 peduncle depth 2.5 times in head and 1.75 times in its own 

 length ; the dorsals far apart, the distance between them almost 

 equal to length of base of first dorsal, small, equal in height 

 which is 1.4 times in depth and 1.8 in head; the anal slightly 

 higher than second dorsal, 1.27 in depth; the second dorsal and 

 anal do not reach base of caudal when depressed; the pectoral 

 rather broad, a seventh longer than depth of body and 5 times 

 in length ; the ventrals short, forming a free, deep, circular cup, 

 attached only at base, its length equal to height of dorsal, the 

 distance from its tip to the small notched anal papilla 1.4 times 

 its own length; the caudal rounded, equal to head in length. 



The color in alcohol yellowish brown with blackish brown 

 longitudinal stripes as follows: The widest one passes around 

 tip of snout and back across cheeks upon base of pectoral; 

 then from beneath pectoral it passes along middle of side to base 

 of caudal ; just beyond its posterior end is a large, circular, black 

 spot, surrounded by a broad white band ; the second band passes 

 around the brow, across upper part of eye and back along the 

 side to upper end of base of caudal; it is connected with its 

 fellow by two crossbands on caudal peduncle; a third, narrow 

 stripe begins a short distance behind upper margin of eye and 

 passes back along dorsal region as far as posterior end of second 

 dorsal, the latter part of it more or less obscure; from upper 

 margin of eye a line curves inward and backward beside the 

 median line of nape to base of first dorsal ; a few blackish spots 

 on posterior part of first dorsal ; three transverse rows of black- 

 ish spots on second dorsal ; the anal has a single row of blackish 

 marginal spots; the central part of caudal marked by elongate 

 blackish spots, in addition to the large spot on base already 

 mentioned ; the basal part of pectoral has a few blackish brown 

 spots. 



Here described from the type and only specimen, 40 milli- 

 meters long, collected in the Titunod, a small stream near 



