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length of snout ; the mouth curved, somewhat oblique, the lower 

 jaw deep, very large, the jaws subequal or the lower jaw strong- 

 ly protruding and the upper jaw included, the posterior angle 

 of maxillary beneath or scarcely reaching eye ; the teeth of outer 

 row in each jaw coarse, stout, conical, widely spaced, and more 

 or less curved; behind them is a row of much smaller teeth or 

 the lower jaw may have two rows anteriorly; the entire body 

 covered with small cycloid scales, larger and somewhat elongate 

 and overlapping posteriorly, smaller, four-sided, not imbricate 

 but separated anteriorly, with their central part more or less 

 depressed; the head naked but irregularly spotted with minute 

 pits which may contain rudimentary scales, though I could de- 

 tect none ; the first dorsal very low, 6.5 times in head ; the second 

 dorsal low also but higher centrally and posteriorly, twice as 

 high as first, 3.25 times in head; the anal is like second dorsal 

 and equals it in height ; the caudal more or less pointed, 4.5 to 6 

 times in length, always longer than head; the pectorals small, 

 weak, 2.6 to 3 times in head; the narrow, pointed ventrals 

 equal the pectoral in length. 



The color in alcohol pinkish brown to gray or bluish brown, 

 the head often paler, the fins yellowish or whitish. 



Here described from eleven specimens, 69 to 162 millimeters 

 long, from Amoy, China, collected by Light. I have also a fine 

 specimen from Hoihow, Hainan Island, and three from Fu-chow, 

 Fukien Province, China, also collected by Light. From Hong- 

 kong I have two poor specimens, each about 62 millimeters 

 long, collected by Scale. From Calcutta I have a specimen, 127 

 millimeters long, collected and named by Sir Francis Day. 

 While I do not doubt the occurrence of this fish in the Philip- 

 pines, I have seen no specimens from the Islands. 



This fish is abundant on the coasts of India and southern 

 China and in the East Indies. 



Genus 76. TRYPAUCHENICHTHYS Bleeker 



Trypauchenichthys BLEEKER, Dert. Bijdr. Vischf. Borneo, Act. Soc. 

 Sci. Indo'-Neerl. 8 (1860) 63; HORA, Rec. Ind. Mus. 26 (1924) 159. 



The chief feature separating this genus from Trypauchen, 

 which it otherwise closely resembles, is the form and structure 

 of the ventral fins. In Trypauchenichthys the ventral fins are 

 divided to the base and completely separated, and have but 

 four soft rays each, the outermost being altered to a broad, flat 

 spine, not shorter than the next two adjoining rays; the two 



