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gaze is partly upward, 1.66 to 2.3 times in snout and 4.5 to 

 5.3 times in head; the flattened interorbital 1.66 to 2 times eye; 

 the mouth low, inferior, the upper lip entire, thick and fleshy, 

 its inner margin more or less rugose but neither papillate nor 



FIG. 1. Sicyovterua lacrymosua sp. nov. ; a, right side of a tooth ; 6, right side of a broken 

 tooth, showing the relation of the three cusps ; c, reconstructed drawing, showing the dorsal 

 aspect of the tooth. 



tuberculate; the posterior angle of maxillary beneath anterior 

 margin or pupil of eye ; the teeth in upper jaw have the cusps all 

 erect, the central cusp much larger than the others, with broadly 

 rounded tip, the other cusps acute, the basal part of teeth with 

 a different shape from that of other species (see text figure) ; 

 on outer edge of lower lip is a row of simple horizontal mi- 

 croscopic teeth, usually covered with a thick coat of slime and 

 therefore invisible; besides the pair of stout, recurved canines 

 at symphysis of lower jaw there are six or eight curved white 

 teeth on each side, the last two much larger and stronger than 



